How to recover lost photos from iPhone

Though iPhone camera cannot compare with a professional digital SLR camera, the photos it takes fully satisfy our daily needs. As the iPhones succeed one another, their cameras becomes stronger and stronger so that you don't need to take an extra digital camera or heavy SLR camera with you when you need to capture some important moments. As the most popular smartphone in the world, iPhone plays a more and more important role in taking photos.

recover lost photos from iPhone

All photos are very important to each of us, I backup nothing. It’s very important to me Because these pictures are my memories of growing up. I really hope to recover them but I don't know how to do. Lots of people have ever been met with this kind of problem and asked for help to recover deleted photos from iPhone. Thus, it’s very urgent to make backup, especially when you stored some important files on your iPhone. But how to restore the lost photos with/without backup?
This article is going to show you a great solution. First of all, you should find a recovery tool which allows you glance your iPhone to restore deleted data directly. If you don’t know how to do, I can introduce a way to you: iPhone Data Recovery (Windows) and iPhone Data Recovery (Mac). Both of them admit you to recover your data, and they do a good job with iPhone 5S/5C/5/4S/4/3GS, iPod touch 5/4, iPad mini, iPad with Retina display, The new iPad and iPad 2/1.
Download the free trial version below and follow the detailed steps to recover your lost photos from iPhone.


Note: Currently, both Windows and Mac versions allow you to scan iPhone 4/3GS to restore media contents directly, such as voice memos, photo library, photo stream, message attachments, and camera roll. The others only let you to retrieve text contents incorporating contacts,messages, notes, calendar, call logs, reminders, bookmarks and Safari.
This article takes the Windows version as an modle, Mac users also can do the same steps to recover pictures from iPhone.

Part 1: Scan and recover photos from iPhone 4/3GS directly
Part 2: Recover iPhone 5S/5C/5/4S/4/3GS photos by extracting iTunes backup

Part 1: Scan and recover photos from iPhone 4/3GS directly
Step 1. Run the program and connect your iPhone to compute
You'll get the the main window below after installing and launching the iPhone Data Recovery program on your computer.
For iPhone 4/3GS, you can choose "Advanced Mode" at the corner of the window to get a deeper scan. Then you need to get into the scanning mode before recovering. Now, follow the guide as below:
1. Hold your device and click "Start".
2. Press "Home" and "Power" buttons at the same time for 10 seconds.
3. When 10 seconds is over, you can release "Power" and still holding "Home" for another 15 seconds.

recover lost photos from iPhone

recover lost photos from iPhone

After you got into the scanning mode sucessfully, the iPhone Data Recovery program will scan your iPhone automatically.

recover lost photos from iPhone

Step 2. Begin to preview and recover iPhone photos
While the program is scanning, you can start to preview data, or you can do it when the scan finished. It's a well-organized scanning report. The program allows you to preview and check all data by the category. If you want to recover your iPhone photos, please choose Camera Roll or Photo Stream to preview them first. Then mark the data you want and save on your computer by clicking "Recover" button.

recover lost photos from iPhone

Part 2: Recover iPhone 5S/5C/5/4S/4/3GS by extracting iTunes backup
Step 1. Choose the back of your iPhone to extract it
After downloading and installing the iPhone Data Recovery program, run it on the computer. And then choose "Recover from iTunes Backup File" on the top of the window. Then all iTunes backup files will be found and displayed on your computer automatically. Here you need to mark the one for your iPhone (the one with a recent date) and click "Start Scan" button to extract it.

recover lost photos from iPhone

Step 2. Preview and recover iPhone photos
After the scan, now you can preview the files found in the scan result. To view your photos, you need to click Camera rollor or Photo Stream. And then choose waht you want and click "Recover" button to save them on your computer effortlessly.

recover lost photos from iPhone

Now, download this iPhone Data Recovery program and begin to recover your data.


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