How to Recover Data from Your iPhone

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Have you ever lost important data on your iPhone? This page will show you a simple way to recover lost iPhone data, like text messages, photos, videos, notes, and contacts.

With its capability to surf the web, work as a video camera, portable multimedia player, visual voicemail, text messenger, and email client, it has become increasingly popular among consumers, who rely on these devices to store important data such as photos, messages, and music files. In this scenario, protecting data on an iPhone is of utmost importance.

The best way to do this is to back up your phone using iTunes. Every time you sync your iPhone with iTunes, the program automatically creates a backup of your data. This is incredibly useful if your device has some sort of technical issue and needs to be restored to a previous working state without losing any information. You can simply restore your iPhone with iTunes.

But if you don't have any backups, or you just want to retrieve lost data from your iPhone instead of everything in the backup, then you can try an iPhone data recovery tool. MobiSaver for Mac is definitely a recommended one. It provides you with a simple and quick solution to retrieve all lost files from your iPhone 5s/5c/5/4S/4/3GS, iPad and iPod touch whether you have backups or not.

Two recovery modes to retrieve data from your iPhone

No backup but lost data from your iPhone? Just choose to recover data directly from your iPhone with MobiSaver. It requires no backup file.

Mode 1: Directly Recover Data from iPhone without Backup

Step 1: Choose the Recovery Mode

Connect your iPhone to the computer and run the MobiSaver tool. On the left, select the recovery mode – “Recover from iOS Device” – and click “Start.”

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Step 2: Scan iPhone to Find the Lost Data

MobiSaver will scan your iPhone 13/12/11/X/XR/XS/8/7/6/5/4 automatically and look for both the existing and some of the lost data.

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Step 3: Preview and Recover iPhone Data

You can choose the lost data you want to recover, like photos, videos, contacts, messages, memos, voicemail, or other files from iPhone 13/12/11/X/XR/XS/8/7/6/5/4. Then click “Recover” to save these data to another location.

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Mode 2: Recover from iTunes Backup File

Step 1: Run the MobiSaver tool.

First, download the MobiSaver tool > Connect your iPhone/iPad to the computer > Launch the MobiSaver tool > Choose "Recover from iTunes Backup" > Select an iTunes backup.

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Step 2: Unlock your iTunes

If this iTunes backup is encrypted, you'll need to enter the password to unlock it. After entering the password, click “Continue.” The MobiSaver tool will now scan your backup file for any lost data.

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Step 3: Preview and recover data from iTunes

Once the scan is finished, you can preview the detailed content of the lost photos/videos, contacts/messages, memos, and social app data. Select the files you want and hit the “Recover” button to save them to your computer.

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