How to permanently delete files and recover deleted data from iPhone?

In some case, we have to permanently delete files from our iPhone to guard our privacy. Tap on them and delete them directly from your iPhone is not far from enough. Anyone who get your iPhone can easily restore all your data with a data recovery software. If you want to give or sell your iPhone to others, you have to permanently erase them from your iPhone. If you lost the iPhone, and you have not password protect it, it could a disaster for your data security. Therefore, it’s necessary for us to learn how to permanently delete files from iPhone.

How to permanently deleted data on iPhone?

When you delete files from iPhone, they will not been removed from iPhone immediately. They are deleted by operating system and become hidden so that disappear. But the content of these data are still store on iPhone.

Before you delete data, you should backed up the data to iTunes or iCloud. After that you can choose to delete them.If you want to erase the data, you should sync your iPhone with iTunes or iCoud. This operation will erase the data that marked as deleted.

If you want to wipe your iPhone, you should factory reset your iPhone to erase all the data.

Go to Home screen, tap on Settings>General>Reset, and then select Erase All Content and Settings. 

You need to enter the pass code to confirm your operation.

After you reset the iPhone, all your data have been permanently erased from your iPhone. You cannot scan and restore from your iPhone with data recovery software. Therefore, you can only restore data from your iTunes and iCloud backup.

How to recover deleted data from iPhone?

If you want to restore your data from backup, you can choose to restore the entire backup, or choose to selectively restore what you need. If you factory reset your iPhone, you can choose to restore backup in iTunes to restore all the data. If you only want to restore some of data, you should use the data recovery software to extract them.

To selectively restore deleted data from iTunes backup with data recovery software

Download H Data iPhone recovery software from the official website and launch it.

Click “View and restore from iTunes backup” and then select the iTunes backup which you need to scan. If you cannot find the one you need, you can add it to the list by manual. Your iTunes backup is in the default folder if you have not move them to other locations.

Choose the iTunes backup and click the SCAN button to scan it. The software will automatically scan all data in your iTunes backup.

After scan, all contents will display on the software. Click the content you need to recover to preview the detailed information. If you can find what want to restore, tick them.

Click Export Selected Records button and then choose the location to save your data.

After it prompts that Export successfully, you can check the recovered data in the recovery folder.