How to Recover Lost Photos from an iPhone Backup

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Posted by Matt Collins, 17th September 2010. 

Here are a few simple steps to help you recover your photos from an iPhone backup:

1. Run the iPhone Backup Extractor and Click to Extract Photos

Run the iPhone Backup Extractor and click on the link that shows you the number of photos in your backup (in this case, just 4).

Clicking the small link showing the number of photos in the iPhone backup

2. Select a Destination Folder for your Recovered Photos

Choose a folder where you'd like the recovered photos to be stored. To keep things simple you may like to create a new folder on your desktop.

Select a destination folder for the recovered iPhone photos

3. Click "OK"

Click "OK" to start the recovery process. This should extract the photos from your backup into the folder you selected.

Click OK

4. Open the Destination Folder

Now open the folder you selected earlier. The photos should be in there. You will need to open folders inside that folder.

Opening the destination folder

5. Find Your Photos

You may have to dig around to find all your photos.

Clicking through different folders

6. Done!

You should now have found your photos!

Recovered iPhone photo of large rabbit

To get your photos back onto your iPhone you'll need to get them into iTunes, then sync your iPhone with iTunes. Here's a guide to getting photos from your PC to your iPhone.

Comments

Gravatar 1 ipod recovery commented at on

    I used iPhone Backup Extractor and found it very easy to recover photos from my iphone.

Gravatar 2 Aidan Fitzpatrick @ iPhone Backup Extractor commented at on

    @Kevin: yes, so long as you'd backed up the phone, you should easily be able to recover all of your photos. Try the free version of our software and drop us a note if you have any problems. We'll be happy to help.

Gravatar 3 card recovery commented at on

    I have used iPhone Backup Extractor and extract my lost photos from my iPohone. It is a powerful and user friendly software.

Gravatar 4 Amazed commented at on

    ALL I CAN SAY IS WWWOOOOWWWW!! I thought all my stuff was gone after I had to do a full restore on my iphone. WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOOWWOWOWOW!!! This is SOOOOO worth it! U GUYS ROCK LIKE A MOUNTAIN!

Gravatar 5 Darren commented at on

    Wow. I can't believe it I wish I'd know this was around when my phone got stolen and I lost all the data on it last year, funny thing is I can see that backup so I'll see whats on there. This works and it's good well worth the money. Totally recommended

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