May be you are you inquisitive and interested to know what’s inside your iPhone backup file when you last copied your iPhone data using iTunes or iCloud. You are not the only one who is curious to discover what does your iPhone backup file contains. The technology and computer forums are filled with these kind of queries that makes thrilled about the idea. The only problem is these backup files are mere read-only databases which means they cannot be opened by any default application on your computer. But never get to depressed as we have solutions to all these tricky issues and in this short tutorial, we will demonstrate briefly how to extract data from these backup files. Why extract iPhone Data from Backup Files, There are myriad of reasons to extract data from your iPhone backup file. We will list down few of them to understand its importance. To extract all old and precious data that you thought you’ve lost in the past. To recover the memorable pictures and videos that you have filmed and assumed you misplaced them.
To keep a backup of all the files on your computer as an extra precaution. To export all the critical files from your iTunes and iCloud backup files. And various other reasons that might be personal. Truth to be told, these backup files are totally unreadable and you must use an external software to extract data from iPhone backup files. And in this tutorial we will be using iPhone Backup Extractor by iSeePassword to extract all data from your iPhone backup files as well as iTunes and iCloud. However, there are some other complex ways to recover your data from backup files as well. Keep on reading how to achieve that. Most Apple users are familiar with iTunes, it is an amazing program that helps to store an entire backup of your backup on their server so that later you can download and restore data from. We will take that to our benefit and extract data using this software.
Step 1. Launch iTunes on your computer that you previously used to back up your device. Step 2. Connect your device to computer using a USB data cable and let the computer detect your phone. You may need to enter the passcode if your device is protected with it to run everything perfectly. Step 3. Select your device name from the iTunes program and click on “Restore Backup” option. Step 4. Find the latest backup file and click on “Restore”. It may take several minutes depending on the size of the backup file. Step 5. That’s it. You may now check your phone to discover all files and data are extracted from the iTunes back up to your phone. Tip: Keep your phone connected to the computer until the restoration process is completed to avoid any interruption. All data from the old iTunes backup file will be extracted. ITunes is freely available on the internet. All your current data will be deleted and over-written by the files present on your iTunes backup.
Will not let you preview any data before restoring. Cannot restore selected files from the iTunes backup. Only supported with latest iTunes version. Method 2: Extract iPhone Data by Using iClouds. ICloud is yet another cloud service offered by Apple to its users. It is very similar to iTunes when it comes to backup and restore files. We will use this service to extract data from iPhone backup file to your phone. The effectiveness is quite similar to iTunes, so if you are looking for a better method then skip to the next one. Step 1. Turn on your device after factory resetting it and wait until the Apple logo appears. Step 2. Follow the setup instruction provided by Apple and on the home screen tap on “Restore from iCloud Backup”. Step 3. Login to your iCloud using your account credentials. Step 4. Select a backup and try to find the most relevant file from which you want to restore data from.
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