I borrowed an iPhone 4 from a friend to use on holiday about three months ago. I reset the phone before returning it and no one has used it since. I didn’t do any iTunes or iCloud backup so is it possible to recover photos from the phone?
It is a common issue for iPhone users to recover deleted photos from iPhone. Whether it can be easily solved depends on what OS your iPhone is and how long since the photos have been deleted. If you’re using iOS 8, and it’s been under 30 days since you removed the photos, you can easily restore deleted photos from iPhone.
However, it will be difficult to get deleted photos back from iPhone if your iPhone is not running iOS 8 or it’s been a long time since the photos were cleared, at least more than 30 days. In this case, you’d better to dig out a right way to recover deleted photos on iPhone.
iPhone Data Recovery(for Windows, for Mac) is just the right and efficient method to recover iPhone deleted photos. Not only that, it also works well in retrieving nearly all iPhone contents like contacts, call history, message, calendar, notes, reminder, Safari bookmark, camera roll, etc. In addition, it is helpful iPad and iPod touch users to restore cleared contents effortlessly. Now, let’s see how it works.
Note that you should first download and install this powerful program on your Mac or Windows by clicking “Free Download” button on the page.
Solution 1 Directly Recover Deleted Photos from iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS
This part offers a solution for iPhone 4 and the prior users to retrieve deleted photos without iTunes and iCloud.
Step 1 Launch iPhone Photo Recovery and connect iPhone with Computer via USB.
Step 2 Scan iPhone to find the deleted photos. It will last several minutes or less.
Step 3 Once the scan ends, you will see all data available to restore on the left directory tree.
Step 4 Check categories like Camera Roll, Photo Stream and App Photos to preview photos one by one and check the photos that you want to recover.
Step 5 When all photos are found, click “Recover” button on the bottom of the program to get all deleted photos back.
Solution 2 Get Removed Photos Back from iTunes Backup for iPhone 4S and Later
Step 1 Launch the program and connect your iPhone to the computer. The program automatically detects the iPhone and then turn to “Recover from iOS Device” window.
Step 2 Click “Recover from iTunes Backup File” on the top of the window.
Step 3 The program starts detecting all iTunes backup files stored on your computer show them all for your option.
Step 4 Extract the backup by choosing one file for iPhone and then clicking “Start Scan” button.
Step 5 Check all backup data clearly and tick the photos that you’d like to recover.
Step 6 Click “Recover” button.
Solution 3 Restore Deleted Photos from iCloud Backup for iPhone 4S and Later
If the above method can’t help you to recover iPhone deleted photos, maybe you need to give the following solution a try. Note that just repeat the Step 1 in Solution 2 to begin retrieving removed photos from iPhone.
Step 1 Click the option on the top of the window to switch to “Recover from iCloud Backup File”.
Step 2 The signup window pops up. Enter your Apple ID and the Password in the appropriate location.
Step 3 Then you will see all backup files existing in your iCloud account which are found by the program automatically.
Step 4 Download the one file that you are desire to restore by selecting it. This process will take you some time.
Step 5 Once the process stops, you are taken to another window where all items list. Then, preview them carefully and check the ones that you need to get back.
Step 6 In the last step, just click “Recover” button to store them on your computer.
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