How to recover lost files and protect private data on your iPhone?

All our personal data like phone numbers, messages, chat conversations, bank and payment account information are stored on iPhone. Therefore, you should not only take care of your iPhone, but also secure your private information on iPhone.

How to secure data on iPhone?

The most important thing for iPhone users is to have a passcode for lock screen. And you should delete the private in time or password protect them.

Protect your privacy on iPhone

Go to Settings>Privacy>Location services, you will find the location services are turned on by default. You can chooses to turn it off, or keep some app to use the location services.

Tap on each app, you can find three options to choose to allow app to use your location: Always, Never, or While using. The iPhone choose While using by default.

Scroll to the bottom, you will find System Services,tap on it to turn off or on the location services. Such as Find My iPhone, Share my location, Wi-Fi calling ,etc.

Protect your data on apps

The build-in apps on your iPhone stores your private data, such as contacts, photos. To secure your private data, you can prevent other apps to read your data on iPhone. Such as forbid the third-party apps to access to your camera roll, contacts, calendar, reminders. When you open a third-party app, it will require you to authorize the access, please deny some apps to access your data on iPhone.

Use the Bluetooth sharing with caution. If you turn on your Bluetooth to share files, you should use caution to allow which device can transfer files from your iPhone.

To avoid data loss and privacy revealing from virus, you should never jailbreaking your iPhone. It is not safe for your iPhone to jailbreak. After jailbreaking, you will invalidate your iPhone’s warranty, and your iPhone is vulnerable to virus and malware. More serious, you iPhone may crashed more often, some features no longer works. What’s more, your battery life will be shorter.

At the same time, backing up is important to protect your data. You should regularly sync your iPhone with iTunes and iCloud. In case you have data loss, you can restore them immediately. With the iTunes backup, you can restore your iPhone to the backup state, and extract individual data from It.

If you do not lost all your data on your iPhone, or you have latest backup that contains all iPhone data, we suggest you do not directly restore from backup in iTunes. Click “Restore Backup” in iTunes will restore the entire backup to your iPhone, so the best way is to use an iPhone data recovery software to extract the data you need to restore.

How to restore data from iTunes backup with data recovery software?

Install H Data iPhone recovery software on your computer and choose to scan from your iTunes backup.

After scan, preview the contents and select the data you need, tick them and click to export them. They will be restored to your computer.