retrieve lost WeChat data on iPhone

“When i was playing iPhone, it crashed suddenly with no reason. Then i found i lost some of my WeChat data on iPhone. What should i do to retrieve my lost WeChat data on iPhone?”

Every year WeChat is launching many new features, and they are changing people’s lives. So more and more people are joining WeChat and become WeChat fan. Then beyond all question, WeChat data is very important for us. When lost some WeChat data, it’ll make us so depressed. From now on, there will be no longer puzzle. Here, we’ll show you how to retrieve lost WeChat data on iPhone.

Retrieve lost WeChat data on iPhone from your Backups

If you have done backup in your iTunes or iCloud, we can retrieve your lost WeChat data from your backups.

For iTunes backup:

When restoring lost WeChat data from iTunes backup, we couldn’t restore part of them, because it needs us to restore the whole folder, so some of our iPhone data will be overwritten. See below steps:

Launching your iTunes, click iPhone image icon on the top of iTunes. Then go to Files--Summary, now you’ll see your backup file lists under it, click “Restore Backup” on the right page, and confirm with “Restore”.



For iCloud:

When restore WeChat data from iCloud, it’ll need us to erase all content and settings.

1.Connect your iPhone with Wifi, go to Setting--General--Erase all content and setting, when all content and settings are erased, go to set up assistant with a hello screen.

2.Swipe to begin the set up progress, choose files you need, tap on “Restore Backup”, and confirm with “Restore”.



Retrieve lost WeChat data on iPhone directly

If you haven’t done any backup, or you have done backup, but you don’t want to erase all your content and settings, you can use iRefone help you retrieve them backup selectively.

iRefone is a professional iOS data recovery software, it can recover more than 16 kinds of files from your iPhone, iPad and iPod. Like contacts, notes, messages, photos, WeChat messages, WhatsApp messages ect. Also it can extract data from iTunes and iCloud backup selectively, and it allows us to preview them before restoring.

Now you can download and install the free trial version to have a try.



Step 1. Run iRefone, connect your iPhone with PC, choose “Recover from iOS Device”, click “Start”.



Step 2. Then we’ll enter the new interface with many data icon and media icon that iRefone can recover, tap on “ WeChat contact” for example, and it’ll be scanned by iRefone.



Step 3. After scanning and analyzing, you can preview and choose the WeChat contacts you need, tap on “Recover to PC”.