Recover Christmas Photos without an iPhone

“I want to check my Christmas photos, but i couldn’t find my iPhone anymore, is it possible to recover Christmas photos without an iPhone?”

“I lost my iPhone when i was shopping, but there are many Christmas photos on my iPhone, i really need to recover them. Could we recover my Christmas photos when i lost my iPhone?”

There are many cases that we will need to recover some iPhone data on iPhone, like photos. But we just lost our iPhone. It seems we couldn’t recover our Christmas photos any more when we lost our iPhone. But actually, it’s possible for us to recover Christmas photos back when we have done some backups in iTunes or iCloud.

Now follow below steps and learn how to recover Christmas photos without an iPhone.

Recover Christmas Photos without an iPhone from iCloud Backup

If we have done backups on iCloud, we can log in same iCloud ID and password on other iPhone or iPad device, then restore the backups on it. But it will need us to erase all content and settings before restoring, also it needs us to restore the whole folder without restoring then selectively, so some of our iPhone data many be overwritten.

For detailes steps, you can refer to below article:

Ways to access iPhone photos in iCloud

Here, we’ll introduce you another way to recover Christmas photos without an iPhone from iCloud backup selectively, and it won’t need you to log in iCloud on another iPhone. But we’ll need the help of third-party iOS data recovery software iRefone.

iRefone is an excellent iOS data recovery software, which can recover more than 16 kinds of files, like contacts, notes, messages, photos, WeChat messages, WhatsApp messages. Also it can extract data from iTunes and iCloud backup selectively, and it allows you to preview then before restoring.

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



Step 1. Run iRefone, choose “Recover from iOS Device”, log in it with your Apple ID and password.



Step 2. When log in, all your backup files in iCloud will show up, click “Download” at the end of the files you need.



Step 3. When finish downloading, we’ll enter the new interface with many data icon and media icon that iRefone can recover, click “Photo” icon, and it’ll be scanned by the software.



Step 4. Wait a few seconds for scanning, then you can preview and choose Christmas photos you need, tap on “Recover to PC” and choose the folder path to save them.



Recover Christmas Photos without an iPhone from iTunes Backup

We can also recover Christmas photos from iTunes backup, see below steps.

Launching your iTunes, click iPhone image icon. Go to Files--Summary, then you’ll see all your backup files on the left side bar, click “Restore Backup” on the right page. And confirm with “Restore”.



Remark: you can also use iRefone for you to recover Christmas photos from iTunes backup selectively, and it also allow you to preview them before restoring.

For related issue, you can refer to below articles:

Download WhatsApp Messages from iCloud

Access WeChat Photos from iCloud