If you lost your iPhone
by accident, what is the first thing you will do? If your iPhone is just lost
or stolen, you should try to find your device immediately. If you can not find
back your iPhone, what you can do is to erase all the data by remote. If your
iPhone is not available, the last way is to recover your data from your iTunes
or iCloud backup.
How
to find lost iPhone?
To secure your iPhone,
you not only should password protect your iPhone, but also should take some
additional actions that can help you secure iPhone.
The iCloud provides a
free service called “Find My iPhone”. It use your iPhone’s GPS and Internet
connection to help you locate the iPhone on map so that you can find it back in
time. But before you lost your iPhone, you should have turned on Find My
iPhone. Once you lost your iPhone, there is no way to enable it. And also, your
iPhone should be connected to Internet if you want to locate it.
Find
lost iPhone in iCloud
Sign in the website of
iCloud with tha account which you used to set up Find My iPhone service, go to
https://ww.icloud.com/. You should have set up Find My iPhone service before
you lost your iPhone. Or you have installed it on other iOS devices, you cal
use this device to find your iPhone.
Click on Find iPhone in
iCloud. It will automatically starts to locate all the devices you have enabled
on this account. Click All devices and select the device you need to locate.
If you locate your iPhone
in map, you can see a green dot which displays the location and movement of
your iPhone. It will also tell your how much battery you have and give your few
options.
Click Sound option. If
your lost your iPhone nearby, the sound made by your iPhone can help you to
find it easily.
Lock your iPhone by
clicking Lost Mode. This can help you to remotely lock your iPhone screen to
avoid unwanted access of data, you also can set up a password for it.
If you cannot get your
iPhone back, you can choose to delete all the data on iPhone. Click Erase
button and confirm that you understand then click Erase. This operation will
delete all the data on your iPhone.
If you have been
working hard but cannot get back your iPhone, and you have to erase your data on
iPhone. You will lost iPhone and all the data on there. If you want to access
your data on lost iPhone, the only way is to restore from your iCloud account
or iTunes. Now I’ ll show you how to restore and extract your iPhone data from
iTunes backup.
How
to perform iPhone lost
data recovery?
To recover iPhone data
from iTunes, you should have backed up your iPhone before you lost the iPhone.
The iTunes backup is stored on your computer in system drive.
Run H Data iPhone recovery
software on your computer, it will detect your iTunes backup automatically,
if not, you can select your backup by manual.
Choose the correct
backup for your iPhone on the software interface to click “Scan”. You can
configure by the device name, backup time and serial number.
The scanning process
lasts for several minutes. After scan, all the data in your backup are restored
on the software interface. The existing data is displayed in black, while the
deleted files are in red.
Check each contents on
the left side. Click the contents type which you need to restore to preview.
Check the files that
you need, and click “Export Selected Records” to export the data to your
computer.
After recovery, you can
click to view the recovered data to use them as you like.
From above, I suggest
everyone to password protect your iPhone and back up your data regularly.
Although it is possible for you to find back your iPhone, you still at the risk
of revealing your data. An iPhone is not cheap for most of us and privacy leaks
can cause serious loss for you. Once you know that you cannot find back your
iPhone, you should erase your data immediately.
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