Lost photos on iPhone after Factory reset, what to do?

How do you know about factory reset? What to do when lost photos on iPhone after factory reset?

Although factory reset doesn’t seem to be a good way, but actually it can help us do some iPhone troubleshooting to solve some software issue. So there are still many people will try it, even it may make them lost some of their iPhone data.

If we couldn’t avoid this issue, now we can learn something about how to recover lost photos on iPhone after factory reset. See below steps.

Recover Lost iPhone Photos from Backups

If you have some backups before doing factory reset, things will be much easier. Because we can restore our lost iPhone photos from those backups even we lost them on iPhone.

For iTunes:

Launching your iTunes, connect your iPhone with PC. And click iPhone image icon, go to Files--Summary, then you can see all your backup files on left side bar. Click “Restore Backup” on the right page, and confirm with “Restore”.



For iCloud:

Now connect your iPhone with Wifi, go to Setting--General--Erase All Content and Settings, when all content and settings are erased, go to set up assistant with a hello screen.

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



Remark: it just doesn’t support us to restore them selectively, and it will need us to erase all content and settings, so we may lost some other iPhone data.

Recover Lost iPhone Photos from iPhone Selectively

If there is no backups, and also there is no third-party iOS data recovery software, it’s not possible for us to recover them. Fortunately, there are some third-party iOS data recovery software can help us with it, like iRefone.

iRefone is a professional iOS data recovery software, it can help us recover as well as backup more than 16 kinds of files, including contacts, notes, messages, photos, reminders, WeChat messages ect. Also it can help us recover them with three recovery mode, that is Recover from iOS Device, Recover from iTunes Backup and Recover from iCloud Backup.

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 new interface with many data icon and media icon that iRefone can recover will show up. Tap on “Photo” icon, and it’ll be scanned by the software.



Step 3. Wait a few seconds for scanning, then you can preview and choose your lost photos you need, tap on “Recover to PC”, and choose folder path to save them.



Remark: if you have backups on iTunes and iCloud, and you need to restore them from your backups selectively, you can also come to iRefone for help.

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