How to restore iPhone to factory state and recover data?

Sometimes, we need to reset our iPhone to factory state to fix the problems, or erase data. No matter you want to sell your iPhone, or send it to others, you should take care to protect your personal data. To secure your data before the iPhone leave your hand, you should restore it to factory settings. The factory reset will bring your iPhone back to a factory state. You have a new iPhone without any musics, personal data, apps besides the iOS and its built-in apps. Then all your data will be lost after factory reset.

How to factory reset your iPhone?

Before you start to factory reset your iPhone, you must have to back up all your data on iPhone. You can choose to back up your data to iCloud account or iTunes.

Go to Settings>General>Reset, then you can find several reset options. You should tap on the option “Erase All content and Settings”. If you have set passcode for your iPhone, then you are required to enter the passcode to process. A warning will pop up and tell you that if you proceed, all the data and settings on your iPhone will be erased. Click Erase to continue.

It will start to erase your iPhone. Generally it will take several minutes. After the factory reset completed, you get a brand-new iPhone. At that time, you can feel free to sell your iPhone, or give it to others. If you use the factory reset to fix your iPhone issues, then you can restore your data from backup back to iPhone.

How to restore data from iPhone after factory reset?

After you have factory reset your iPhone, all the data and settings on your iPhone have been erased. If you want to recover your data, you can only recover from backup or recover with data recovery software. You can sign in the iCloud account to restore your data, or run iTunes on your computer to restore data to your iPhone. Also, you can use data recovery software to extract data from the former backup.

Run H Data iPhone recovery software on your computer and run iTunes.

Click “View and Restore files from iTunes backups”.

Select a backup to scan, click “SCAN” button on the software interface.

After scan, you will see all the data recoverable.

Preview to find the data you need to recover.

Check the data you need and then click “Export Selected Records” to save recovered data to your computer.

After you have extract all your data from the backup, you can choose to send them to your iPhone again.