How to Recover iPhone Photos After Deletion, Update or Factory Reset?

As the saying goes, "What's done is done!" This is right for most cases but it's not the absolute situation. This can be well proven in the case of data recovery. Even though you lose data on your iOS device, you still have the chance to get them back. You might know how to recover iPhone photos from iTunes backup or iCloud backup. And that's the most common used way for iOS users.



Now let's talk about how your photos or other data could be lost, or to be more concisely, when you will need to retrieve photos from iPhone. The most harrowing cause is wrong operation or mistaken deletion, which makes you extremely regretful. And you could lose photos because of phone stealing, device damage, update failure, jailbreak failure, factory reset, virus infection, malware attack and so on.

No matter how you lose the data on your iPhone, with the advanced technologies nowadays, you can have a variety of solutions to get them back. Let's see how to recover iPhone photos via several effective ways below.

When you have backup

If you are a good listener to Apple, you should have been backing up your iPhone. And with the backup, you can easily restore your iPhone. For iOS users, there are two common used ways: iTunes and iCloud.

Restore from iTunes backup

1. Connect your iPhone with the computer via USB cable and then open iTunes on your computer.

2. Click on your device in iTunes, which appears in the upper-left corner.

3. Right-click on your device and press "Restore from backup…"

4. Choose the latest backup from the list and confirm to proceed the restore.

Restore from iCloud backup

1. On your iPhone, go to Settings > General > Software Update. If a newer version of iOS is available, follow the onscreen instructions to download and install it.

2. Make sure you have a recent backup to restore from. Go to Settings > iCloud > Storage > Manage Storage, then tap a device listed under Backups to see the date and size of its latest backup.

3. Go to Settings > General > Reset, then tap "Erase all content and settings".

4. From the apps Apps & Data screen, tap Restore from iCloud Backup, then sign in to iCloud.

5. Proceed to "Choose backup", then choose from a list of available backups in iCloud.

When you don't have backup

If you don't have backup on iTunes, iCloud, other cloud-based platforms or other devices, the only solution for you is using an iPhone photo recovery app. Here I would recommend you iOS Data Recovery which is able to help you recover photos, videos, music files, contacts, messages, apps, Safari bookmarks and so on, with or without backup. Below is the tutorials on how to recover iPhone photos without backup by using iOS Data Recovery.

1. Download and install iOS Data Recovery on your computer, launch the app.

2. Connect iPhone with the computer via USB cable.

3. Select recovery mode: Recover from iOS Device.

4. Select, preview and recover deleted photos on iPhone.