How To Recover Deleted Photos On iPhone
How To Recover Deleted Photos On iPhone
Sometimes photos get deleted accidentally from our phone and we want to get back all those photos desperately. If the same thing happens with you and you are using an iPhone then you could get back the accidentally deleted photos by using some third party applications.
This method will remain same for the smartphone including upcoming iPhone 8, iPhone 7S and iPhone 7S Plus. So once you know the trick, you can apply it to all the medels of iPhone.
Also iPhone itself offer a way to retrieve the deleted photos. But remember to use proper action as improper action can damage the files and it might be impossible to get back the deleted photos ever. Learn here the processes to recover deleted photos of your iPhone.
Ways to recover deleted photos
Follow the below steps to recover photos.
- Open the photo app
- Select the Album section
- Choose that album which is named ‘Recently deleted’.
- Select all those photos need to be recovered and click ‘Recover’.
- Again select ‘Recover photos’ in the pop up to confirm the process.
If you want to recover multiple photos in your iPhone the process is same as above.
But this photo retrieving method is only available in iOS 8 Operating system. So if you have upgraded your iPhone with the latest OS then use this method otherwise deleted photos can be retrieved by the third party applications.
In case you have deleted the photo before back up then it can be recovered only by third party apps. But one thing to remember that photos that you have deleted before more than 30 days is not retrievable.
Third party apps and software for retrieving deleted photos on iPhone
The internal memory of iPhone is not easily accessible to the users without jailbreaking the phone. Lots of apps are available that can retrieve data from iPhone.
Some popular apps are discussed here that can recover the deleted photos by jailbreaking the device.
PhotoRec
PhotoRec is a popular data retrieving app which is open source. It can recover data from internal, external hard disk and USB storage device.
This app will shows up as an external storage detected by a program and recovers any deleted data. The program is a command line tool so users who are comfortable with Interface oriented application would like to go for other applications.
iPhone backup extractor
This is other important tool for recovering deleted data of iPhone. This tool uses the built in auto backup system of iTunes in order to retrieve data. This is a simple method where you need to download and run this iPhone backup extractor and it will provide you the files to recover.
The files you chose to retrieve will be extracted and saved in your device. Anything and everything such as videos, images, games and messages can be recovered in this way.
Recuva
This is a very popular data recovery tool from the external storage device. You will be provided with guide to recover any types of data you want.
But before jailbreaking your phones check the iCloud and other backup services for recovering the deleted files as most of the services back up all the data of the device.
