There is a separate group where you can restore Photos, Other Photos (whatever that means), App Videos, Voice Memos, and Voicemail. On this tab you can view your Call History, Contacts, Messages, SMS Attachments, Notes, Note Attachments, Safari History, Calendar Entries, and Reminders. That’s how this tool can find your deleted data – it’s just looking for those orphaned files that haven’t been fully deleted yet.

As new files are added they will overwrite those orphaned files and essentially delete your data for good. That way they can “delete” your data quickly without actually wiping it from the disk. Most file systems don’t delete your files right away – they only delete the pointer to your file. This tab is showing you data on your iPhone that is semi-deleted. Once the scan is complete you will see several categories and checkboxes on the right side.

But after we deleted a few things on the phone the re-scan took about the same time as the first. As long as nothing changed the re-scan is even faster. It scanned our iPhone 4 16 GB in less than a minute. Note that if you want to flip between tabs then you will see a warning that you have to re-scan in order to switch. Connect Your Phone And Scanīefore you start you may want to use iTunes to make a backup of your phone in case you want to undo the restore.Ĭonnect your iPhone and click on the Start Scan button. If you choose to run the program right away it will show you a screen where you need to connect your iPhone. The software is available for Windows or Mac as a free limited-use trial.įor our test we used Windows 10 with an iPhone 4 and we reviewed version 6.7.1.5 of the software.Īfter downloading and installing the software it automatically launched a browser window to their site which was unnecessary but the rest of the installation went fine and there were no other surprises. Or if you sync your phone over-the-air via iCloud then you should have a backup there. If you sync your phone with iTunes on a semi-regular basis then you probably have a backup. You can retrieve lost files from your phone, your iTunes backup, or your iCloud backup. Tenorshare’s UltData software will help you recover pictures, videos, contacts, messages, call history, notes, calendar entries, and more from your iOS devices. That’s where Tenorshare UltData comes to the rescue. At some point you’re going to need to find a picture, document, or video on your phone that you intentionally or accidentally deleted.