How to Recover Deleted Data from iPhone

Differ from Most of Adroid phone, iPhone does not have a card slot so that you cannot insert a SD card to expand the storage of iPhone as it has a large internal storage space. While for some of users, the 16 or 64 GB space is still far from enough. Therefore, most of people will choose to reinstall app or delete data. But this usually cause unexpected data loss.

If you lost data on SD card, you can connect your SD card with computer to restore data. If you lost data on iPhone , you have more choices for data recovery. iPhone allows you to restore data directly from iCloud on your iPhone. Or you can sync iPhone with iTunes, and then restore data from iTunes backup. At last, even if you do not have any backup, you still can retrieve your data on iPhone with data recovery software.

Today I’ll introduce how to recover deleted files with H Data iPhone recovery software. It is designed for iOS devices which is fully compatible with iOS 9 and 10. It can scan the data existing on iPhone, as well as your iTunes backup.

How to Recover Deleted Data from iPhone?

If you do not have any iTunes or iCloud backup, the last choice for you is to restore from iPhone. You need to run the recovery software to scan your iPhone. You can follow the steps to restore your data from iPhone.

Step 1. Connect your iOS device with computer and launch H Data iPhone Data Recovery Software

To scan and restore from iPhone, you should click the recovery mode Scan iPhone for deleted files and then click the button of Begin Recovery From iPhone to start recovery.

Step 2. Scan iPhone for all the data

H Data iPhone recovery software does not restore your existing data on iPhone, but also the data deleted which have not been overwritten by new data. After scan, it will list all the contents according to the types. You will find Contacts, photos, messages, notes, safari,etc.

Click each type to preview the files that you need to recover. The full version of this recovery program allow you to preview all the data and export them to your computer.

Tick the files after perview and click export button to choose a recovery location for your data. The recovery program will extract your selected files and save them in your chosen location on computer.

After recovert, you can check the files you have recovered. Generally it is in a folder with the content type. If can choose to add these files to your iCloud or iTunes backup.

iPhone Safari recovery Deleted safari recovery

Safari is the web browser for iPhone and iPad by default. It include your browsing history and bookmarks. Some of them are useful and convenient for you. If you lost them, it could cause some troubles. There are various reasons for your loss of safari histories and bookmark. Such as accident deletion, upgrading iOS, system crash, factory reset, jailbreak and so on. What should you do if you find suddenly loss of safari?

First of all, you should restart your iPhone and restart safari to check if safari bookmarks are back. If the bookmarks do not go back, you have to use the data recovery software to extract existing browsing history and bookmarks from your iPhone.

What is H Data iPhone data recovery software?

H Data iPhone recovery software is a professional data recovery software for iOS devices and used on Windows computer. It can restore nearly all data on iPhone, covering Safari history, bookmark, notes, calendar, contacts, photos, messages and other data on apps. And support two recovery mode: scan and view from iTunes backup; scan from iPhone. You are able to preview all the data on the software and selectively restore the files you need.

How to restore iPhone Safari from iPhone?

Without iTunes or iCloud backup, you can only restore from your device. To achieve this, you need a computer or laptop, your iPhone and USB cable, and the H Data iPhone recovery software.

Follow these steps to restore your lost safari history and bookmark

Download and run H Data iPhone recovery software on your computer, and select the recovery mode to recover from iPhone.

You need to use an USB cable to connect your iPhone with computer. As it shows that your device is connected, you can start to recover data.

Click the Begin Recovery From iPhone button to let it automatically scan your entire iPhone. As this process will take a long time, you should make sure your laptop has enough power or you can plug it in power, and do not move your USB cable, or it may lost connection and interrupt the scanning.

After scan, you are able to preview all the contents recovered from your iPhone. Click Safari, you can preview the safari browsing histories on the right side.

Tick the safari records and export them to your computer.

If you have iCloud backup, the easiest way is to restore from iCloud. Sign in iCloud.com and go to Settings, you will find the option of Restore bookmark in Advance. Choose the bookmarks that you want to restore and click Restore button to restore them. But what you need to note is that your chosen bookmark will replace all the bookmarks on your iPhone.

How to copy iPhone contacts to PC and transfer and recover contacts to iPhone?

iPhone does not allow users to store contacts on SIM card. All the contact information are stored on iPhone’s memory. Therefore, if you lost iPhone or the device become damaged, you will lost your data. But we still have ways to prevent data loss on iPhone. iPhone allows you to selectively and automatically back up your data to iCloud on iPhone. And you can use iTunes app to sync iPhone and back up data on your computer. In addition, you can choose to use an iPhone data recovery software to extract your data from your iPhone or iTunes backup.

First, export contacts with iTunes backup

The iTunes backup is stored on your computer. If you lost any data on iPhone, you can restore your iPhone in iTunes. iTunes back up the entire iPhone, including all the settings and data on device. Your deleted files which have not been overwritten will also be backed up. That is why you can use recovery software to retrieve deleted files from iTunes backup.  The limit is that the current iTunes does not allow you to separately restore your contacts. To export contacts to computer, you have to use the iPhone data recovery software to extract contacts from iTunes backup.

Download and install H Data iPhone recovery on the computer which save your iTunes backup.

Run this software on computer and select the recovery mode of “View and Restore from iTunes backup”. You can find iTunes backups list below. You can decide which one to restore according to the backup time, device name. If your iTunes backup is not in the default location, you have to add it on this software by manual.

Choose the correct one and click SCAN button to start the recovery. It will scan and analyze all the data in iTunes backup.

After recover, you can preview all the data recovered. Click Contacts on the left side, you can preview all your contacts.

Tick the contacts that you want to export, click “Export Selected Records”. Your selected contacts then are exported to your computer.

Second, export contacts to computer without iTunes backup

Without iTunes backup, you still can export contacts on iPhone to computer. You still need to do this with the help of iPhone data recovery software.

Run H Data iPhone recovery software on your computer. It will ask you to connect device.

Connect iPhone with computer via USB cable. If the software detect your iPhone, it will display that Device connected.

Click Begin Recovery From iPhone button to start recovery. Differ from scanning from iTunes backup, scanning iPhone spend more time. If you have dozens of GB data on iPhone, the scanning could last for more than half hours. Therefore, you should not interrupt he scanning and disconnect iPhone.

As the contacts have been exported to your computer, you can save them as you like, or transfer them to your iCloud or iTunes.

How to recover data from the disabled iPhone?

What you can do if you found your iPhone disabled and you cannot access any data on this disabled device. There are two cases that your iPhone is disabled.

First, the iPhone is disabled for it is locked as you forgot the password,

If you forgot the password and enter into the incorrect password for several times, the device will become disabled. In that case, your iPhone still can be detected by computer, so that you can restore from iTunes.

Second, your iPhone became disabled for unexpected damage

Your iPhone suffered some unexpected damage, such as dropped to the ground or into water, or have jailbreak failure so that you cannot use your iPhone. You cannot reset your iPhone, and you can only access your data in iTunes backup with data recovery software.

How to restore iPhone with iTunes after disabled?

The first choice for you to restore your disabled iPhone is to use iTunes if your iPhone has not dead. You should connect your iPhone to iTunes and reset it.

Steps to restore iPhone in iTunes:

Connect your iPhone with iTunes on computer, and wait for iTunes sync with your device and create backup.

After the sync is done, you should click the phone icon to come to the device page.

Click Restore iPhone button and choose “Restore from iTunes backup”. You should select one backup to restore your device.

Steps to restore iPhone in iCloud:

If you have enabled Find My iPhone in your iCloud account, you can choose to erase your device and restore it.

Sign in iCloud.com with your Apple ID.

Click Find My iPhone icon and then click All Devices. Select the device that you want to erase. Click Erase iPhone to erase this device.

After erase is done, you can choose to restore the device.

How to recover iPhone data without iTunes backup?

We can easily restore disabled iPhone from iCloud and iTunes backup. However, how can we selectively recover files from iPhone? To solve this trouble, iPhone data recovery software come up. iPhone data recovery software is used on computer for iOS devices data recovery. Differ from iTunes, it allows you to selectively restore files from your iTunes backup or iPhone.

Run H Data iPhone recovery software on your computer. You can choose the recovery mode on the interface: to restore directly from iPhone, or restore from your iTunes backup.

Without iTunes backup, you can only restore your lost files from the device as the recovery should be done as soon as possible.

Connect your device with computer and select to scan from iPhone. The scanning process will last for a long time. This scanning should not be interrupted.

After scan, you can preview all the contents. Click each file type you can find the files you need.

Check the files that you need and choose a recovery path to store them on your computer.

How to access and restore files from iTunes backup?

Backup is not commonly used and some people are too lazy to back up their important data. The most serious consequence is that you will lost all the data foerever that you have not back up. If you have backup, you can restore lost files easily to your iPhone. If you have iTunes backup on your computer, you can find them in the default folder.

How to access and restore files from iTunes backup?

Where is your iTunes backup?

By default, your iTunes backup is stored on your C partition in the path: C:>Users>Administrator AppData>Roaming>Apple Computer>MobileSync>Backup, you will see a folder named with a long string of alphanumeric characters. But if you click to open it ,you will find you can directly read these files on computer. If you want to access and use these files, you should restore the entire backup to your iPhone, or you can use a data recovery software for iOS devices to extract the data.

How to access iTunes backup files with data recovery software?

If you do not want to restore the entire backup to iPhone, or you do not have iOS devices now, you have to use the data recovery software.

Download and run H Data iPhone recovery software on our computer which stores your iTunes backup.

Choose one iTunes backup on the recovery software. The recovery software will detect and display them on the interface with the device’’s name, backup time. If you cannot find the backup you need, you should find it by manual.

Click the green SCAN button at the bottom to let it automatically scan the backup. It will scan all the data in your iTunes backup. Although you have deleted them before you back up iPhone, you still have chance to recover them as long as the deleted files have not been overwritten.

After scan, all the files in iTunes backup have been restored on the software interface. You can preview all of them to know if they are what you want.

Tick the data that you need and then click Export Selected Records. You are required to choose a location to store your selected files.  After it prompts that Export Successful, you can access the recovered files in the recovery folder. Then you can access to each file and read them on computer, or choose to transfer them to your iPhone via iTunes or iCloud.

Access files in iCloud

If you have iCloud backup for your data, you can access and read them directly on iCloud. Sign into iCloud.com with your Apple ID, you can access to your contacts, Calendar, iCloud Drive, Notes, Reminders, Photos and other data and restore them to your iPhone. This method may be easier for you as it do not need computer and USB cable so you can complete on iPhone.

How to backup and restore contacts on iPhone?

Contacts are one of the most important part on our iPhone and we need the phone numbers and emails to contact with others. Therefore, how can we back up contacts on iPhone and restore them after accidental loss? How can we extract and transfer the contacts from iPhone?

To solve the problems, we summarize several methods to extract contacts from iPhone.

First, extract contacts via email

iPhone allows you to share your contact cards with others via message, email or Airdrop.

Tap on the contacts that you want to extract and tap on “Share Contact”, then choose email icon to email this contacts to your email. Then you can enter into your email box and then save the attached files on your computer.

How to add email on iPhone?

Go to Settings and find “Mail, Contacts, Calendars”, choose it and tap on Add Account. Then you can choose the email type you want to add.

For example, if you want to add Gmail, you should chose Google icon and then enter your full email address, Name, password, click next. Turn on Contacts in the synchronization. Select Keep on My iPhone to sync contacts. All the new contacts from iPhone to your Gmail account will be placed in the All Contacts Group. Also, you can use it to sync your calendars and photos.

Second, back up contacts with Google Drive

You can use Google Drive to back up your contacts, photos, and calendars.

Connect your iPhone to Wi-Fi network and open Google Drive app on your iPhone.

Tap on the Options menu and tap on Settings>Backup>Start Backup.

In this way, it only back up your newly added data and will overwrite your previous backup. It only back up your contacts on iPhone, not on other apps.

Third, back up contacts to iCloud

You can choose to sync your iPhone with iCloud account. You just need to turn on iCloud backup to let it automatically sync iPhone with your iCloud. After backup, you can find all your contacts in the Contacts. Then you can choose to export the contacts from iCloud to your computer.

On your iCloud account, click Contacts to access to your contact address book.

Click the gear button at the bottom left and select “Select All” or “Export vCard” options. It will export your contacts in vCard file.

Fourth, back up contacts to iTunes

The iTunes does not allow you to separately back up your contacts. It will back up all the contents and settings on your iPhone.

Connect your iPhone with computer via an USB cable, and launch iTunes.

Click phone icon and then find the Back up Now” button. It will automatically back up your entire phone and the iTunes backup is stored on your hard drive.

If you want to restore your iPhone at any time, you can one-click to restore your iPhone. Or you can choose to use an iPhone data recovery software to selectively extract your data from iTunes backup.

How to extract contacts from iTunes backup?

First, you should have iTunes backup on your computer. Run H Data iPhone recovery software on this computer.

The iTunes backups are listed on the software if you have several backups. It displays your device’s name, backup time and the serial number of your device so that you can choose the one you need.

Choose one iTunes backup and click SCAN button to scan for all the files. It automatically scans all the files in iTunes backup and restore on the software.

After scan, all the existing and deleted files in iTunes backup are listed here. Click the individual file you can preview the details.

Click Contacts on the left side to preview all the contacts.

Tick all the contacts that you want to extract and click to export them to your computer.

How to recover deleted photos from iPhone?

Can I recover my deleted photos from iPhone? I accidentally delete all my photos in Photos, but I have no backup. It nearly drive me crazy as I have lost all my important photos.

Mistaken deletion is always the most common reason for our data loss. If you have no backup, the data loss could be a disaster in our life.

Recently Deleted Album

If you only delete your photos from camera roll, you may still can recover your data on your iPhone. Open Photos on your iPhone and tap Albums at the bottom, find a album called “Recently Deleted”. Open it, you will find all your delete photos here. However, if you have emptied this album, you have no choice but to recover from backup or use data recovery software.

Recover deleted photos from iTunes with iPhone data recovery software

If you have not back up your photos to iTunes before data loss, you have to retrieve your lost photos with an iPhone data recovery software.

H Data iPhone recovery software is able to restore all types of contents on your iPhone, like photos, contacts, messages, videos, voice, notes and safari. It offers you two ways to recover your deleted photos: from iPhone directly if you have no backup; from iTunes previous backup or newly created backup. You are allow to preview all the photos and part of other data with Demo version. If you use the Full version, you can preview and recover all the data recoverable.

Steps to recover deleted photos from iPhone

Run H Data iPhone recovery software on computer. And then choose one recovery method to scan. If you want to restore files from iTunes backups, you should have iTunes backup on your computer, or you can create a backup now.

Click to scan the iPhone or the backup. If you choose to scan the iPhone directly, it will take a long time if you have large sizes of files on your iPhone. If you choose to restore from the iTunes backup, it only take one or two minutes.

After scan, it lists all the content on your phone. You can find the Photos on the left side. Click Photos to preview all the recoverable photos. It includes all the photos in your Camera of your iPhone. If you want to recover other photos, you can click other folders.

Check the photos and then click the Export button.

Select a directory to save your photos. The software will prompts that Export successfully and you can check them in the recovery path you choose.