Monday, June 30, 2014

How to Recover Deleted or Lost Photos from iPhone

Questions: 
"I recently got an iPhone 5S and I'm still trying to figure out how to use it. I accidentally erased some important photos from the Camera Roll and I was wondering if there is any way I can recover them? Any help is greatly appreciated!"

"I have photos I really liked and they got deleted off my iPhone 4S. Is there a program out there that can help me to recover deleted photos from iPhone? There has to be at lease 1 program that actually works. Please help!"

If you're suddenly faced with the same situation and need to retrieve deleted photos from your Apple iPhone, use Jihosoft iPhone Photo Recovery software to help you. Regardless of how the photos were deleted, it is able to undelete photos on your iPhone. The data recovery software will scan your iPhone and list all of the files that it was able to recover. It supports all iPhone models, including iPhone 5S, 5C, 5, 4S, 4, 3GS, etc.

Things You'll Need 
  • Jihosoft iPhone Photo Recovery 
  • USB cable 
  • iPhone 
Instructions 
How to Recover Deleted Pictures from iPhone 
1. Free download Jihosoft iPhone Photo Recovery. After installing the program on your computer, run it.
2. Connect your iPhone to computer with the USB cable. When the program detects your iPhone, click "Start Scan" to scanning your iPhone for lost photos.
3. When the scan completes, you can preview and check all data available to recover in the scan result. To recover photos, you can preview the recoverable ones in the categories of Camera Roll, Photo Stream and App Photos.
4. Mark the photos you want to get back and then click on the "Recover" button to save them on your computer.

Tips & Warnings 
1. When you accidentally delete photos on iPhone, the device does not completely delete these files until they are written over. Thus, stop using your iPhone to avoid data overwriting, and perform the recovery process as soon as possible after the photos were deleted.
2. The software also supports photo recovery from iPhone backup. Don't sync your iPhone with iTunes when you realize that you have lost photos, or the iTunes backup file will be updated after the sync.
3. Do not install the data recovery program on the iPhone drive. It will not work. The application must be installed on a separate PC to which you can connect your iPhone.

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

How to Recover Deleted Messages from iPhone 5S/5C/5/4S/4/3GS

"Hey, guys. My girlfriend is really upset that she just deleted her messages on iPhone 4 by mistake. I'm wondering if there is any way to get them back. Any help would be appreciated."

If you often use your iPhone to send or receive messages, you are likely to encounter the same trouble. Many reasons may cause iPhone text messages lose, such as, wrong deletion, iPhone jailbreak, iPhone factory settings restore, iOS update crash, iPhone lost or stolen, iPhone broken or damaged, and more. Luckily, there are still ways to get back deleted text messages. Here we will introduce four ways to recover deleted text messages from iPhone 5S, 5C, 5, 4S, 4, 3GS, etc.

Solution 1: Recover iPhone Deleted Messages from iTunes Backup 
If you have a recent iTunes backup, you should be able to retrieve iPhone text messages from the backup.
  1. Open iTunes. Go to Edit > Settings to disable automatic syncing in iTunes.
  2. Connect your iPhone to computer via USB cable and wait it to be recognized
  3. In iTunes, go to File > Devices and choose the "Restore from Backup" option.
Solution 2: Retrieve Deleted Text Messages on iPhone from iCloud 
This works only if you have ever backed up iPhone to iCloud. Please note that iCloud doesn't backup SMS in all territories, and for all phone operators.
  1. Go to Settings > iCloud on your iPhone and turn off Text Messages.
  2. You will see a pop up. Select "Keep on My iPhone".
  3. Turn back on text messages and tap "Merge". After a while, the deleted text messages should appear back on your iPhone.
Solution 3: Using Jihosoft iPhone Text Message Recovery Software
If you have no backup, you can rely on third-party tool to recover deleted text messages from iPhone. Here Jihosoft iPhone Text Message Recovery is recommended. It works for iPhone 5S/5C/5/4S/4/3GS users to retrieve deleted or lost messages.
  1. Run the application and connect your iPhone to computer with USB cable.
  2. Click on "Start Scan", the program will begin to scan the device for lost messages.
  3. After scanning, all data lost are displayed in categories. You can easily find and preview the deleted messages.
  4. Mark the messages you want and click "Recover" to get them back.

Solution 4: Combine Third Party Software with iTunes Backup 
Also, if you have an iTunes backup, Jihosoft iPhone Text Message Recovery can help you retrieve text messages by extracting iTunes backup file.
  1. Choose "Recover from iTunes Backup File" mode and select the iTunes backup file you want.
  2. Click on "Scan", the software will scan your iTunes backup file and analyze the data.
  3. After a while, all data in the backup file will be displayed in the scan result. You can preview all data including text messages.
  4. Choose the text messages you need and click on the "Recover" button.

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