Lost or broken your iPhone, iPad or iPod? Deleted something important? Failed iOS update?

iPhone Backup Extractor can recover it all for you. From iTunes or iCloud backups, or your iCloud account. Even if the backup is corrupted.

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or get it for macOS

Unrivalled support to access, transfer and recover iPhone or iCloud data

Recover deleted iPhone data

The best undeletion out there: benchmarks show we thrash thousand dollar pro tools

Beautiful, accurate exports & previews

Export your message history, contacts, notes, calendars and more

Fanatical support & 5 Trustpilot rating

We care too much to outsource our support. Reach out for a screenshare session! 😀

Forensically sound exports

Our exports are comphrensive and forensically sound. We've got you covered.

Corrupt backup support

Having issues restoring a corrupted backup? We've got built-in support for corruption recovery

We won't store or sell your data

Governed by the toughest data laws in the world, and recommended by some Apple Geniuses

Top-tier iCloud support

Noone supports iCloud like we do. 2FA, iCloud Photo Library, Photo Stream, and more

Trusted around the world

Reincubate is a valued-led, British business 🇬🇧, recognised by the Queen.

Screen Time passcode recovery

Painlessly recover your forgotten Screen Time passcode and parental restriction settings

& yes, there's more...

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Get your data back from every app that’s on iOS or iCloud. That’s over 2 million of them.

Photos & videos
Social & messaging
Screen Time passcode
Contacts & calendar
& many other apps

Photos & videos

Recover your lost or deleted iPhone photos and videos from your iTunes backups
Easily download images and videos stored in your iCloud backup
Recover photos and videos from 3rd-party iOS apps from your iTunes or iCloud backup

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Guide

Recover deleted photos

The authoritative guide to recovering lost or deleted photos from your iPhone, by Reincubate, proud inventors of iPhone Backup Extractor

Guide

Download and transfer Photos

The authoritative guide from Reincubate, proud inventors of iPhone Backup Extractor

Social & messaging

Recover your lost or deleted iPhone SMS, iMessages, Kik, Hike, Viber and WhatsApp messages
Extract iOS messages from unencrypted or encrypted (password protected) iTunes backups
Download and retrieve SMS messages from your iCloud backup
Preview all your text messages in a gorgeous PDF, HTML or CSV formats

Guide

Recover messages

Our guide takes you through simple steps to recover your deleted texts, iMessages, and attachments.

Guide

Recover WhatsApp

Our comprehensive guide for recovering or transferring WhatsApp messages and attachments.

Screen Time passcode

Recover a lost or forgotten Screen Time passcode from your iPhone or iPad backup
Recover a lost parental control restrictions passcode

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Guide

Recover Screen Time passcode

Recover your forgotten Screen Time restrictions passcode in iOS and avoid losing data.

Video

How to recover your Screen Time passcode — without a reset

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Contacts & calendar

Recover lost iOS contacts in CSV or vCard format for import into Contacts, Webmail, etc.
Extract contacts from your iTunes or iCloud backup
Download contacts directly from an iCloud services
Easily put your contacts back on your iPhone in just a few steps

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Guide

Recover contacts

Our guide on how to recover iPhone contacts and deleted contacts from your address book, and how to import them

Video

How to recover and export iPhone contacts

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& many other apps

Extract app data from your iTunes or iCloud backup, or iCloud account
Retrieve game scores, pictures, messages, chat history, app settings and all your other app data
Recover calendar entries, notes, recordings, voicemails, call history, location data, Safari bookmarks and more
Candy Crush scores, WhatsApp pictures, Skype chats, Gmail app settings and more, accessed in just a few clicks
Delete, replace or add a file to your backup so you can restore it afterwards with iTunes

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Guide

Recover iCloud data

Learn how to download, extract and recover data from an iCloud backup. A complete guide to iCloud data recovery.

Guide

iTunes backup recovery

Learn how to view, edit, export, modify and recover lost and deleted files from an iTunes backup.

Guide

Recover Apple Watch data

Recover lost or deleted iWatch and Apple Watch data

We do this for every iOS device ever made

iPhone Backup Extractor runs on any Mac (10.9+) or Windows PC (Vista or newer).

Supports every iOS device

iPhone Xs, Xr, X, iPhone 8. Everything older, including iPad and iPod Touch.

Supports every iOS & beta

iOS 12 and 11, and every earlier version. We started with iOS 1.

No recovery drama

We were first to support encrypted backups, iCloud & 2FA. Corrupted backups, too!

More features

Backup encryption is no obstacle

We support every encrypted iTunes backup format & can help recover lost passcodes

Free edition lasts forever

Browse, preview, and export your data up to four files at a time. We don't believe in time limits!

Get data in easy-to-import files

Export your contacts & calendar to easily-readable formats, making import hassle-free

30-day money back

There's no risk in trying us out: if we can't help, we'll refund you straightaway

Location data

Extract all the location data from your backups, phone and EXIF data in a single click

Crazy update schedule

Data formats change every day, but we're on it: just check out our release notes

Edit your iTunes backup

Need to patch your iPhone's contents? Edit and restore your backup

Convert iCloud backups to iTunes

Need to download an iCloud backup for use with iTunes? No problem

Support for Apple Watch data

We specifically highlight data from your Apple Watch, making it easy to work with

Rich sample data to help you explore

We include a lovely sample backup for you to see at a glance how we can help

Integrated Plist viewer

Easily view and edit Apple's proprietary file formats without needing another program

Easy drag and drop extraction

Recovering your data is as easy as dragging files out

Go ahead. Try it out!

See how much you can recover with iPhone Backup Extractor

Download now

or get it for macOS

Lost or broken your iPhone, iPad or iPod? Deleted something important? Failed iOS update?

iPhone Backup Extractor can recover it all for you. From iTunes or iCloud backups, or your iCloud account. Even if the backup is corrupted.

Unrivalled support to access, transfer and recover iPhone or iCloud data