I restore my iPhone 5 by mistake and I'm not really that mad except that it contained over 1000 photos. I never really had an urge to download them onto my Windows computer. Is there a way to recover photos from iPhone 5?
There are still more situations of this kind making you suffer from the photo loss. If you ever found yourself in that annoying situation, do not feel hopeless, I can assure you that it is not the end of the world. When the photo is transferred from somewhere else, you can get it again. But if the photo comes from the camera roll on your iPhone and there is no backup, you have to recover it with a third-party tool.
iPhone Data Recovery is a good program to solve iPhone photo recovery issues. It helps you easily recover lost or deleted photos & videos, contacts, SMS, call logs, memos and calendars, even Safari bookmarks from iPhone 5. With the help of it, you can easily recover photos from iPhone 5/4S/4/3GS or iTunes backup.
Method 1 Recover Photos from iPhone Directly
First Step. Download, install and run the iPhone data recovery software. And then connect your iPhone with your computer. Click “Start Scan” to find your lost data.
iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S needn’t to enter DFU mode, if you are not iPhone 5 or iPhone 4 users, follow the steps here before scan:
1. Hold your iPhone and click "Start".
2. Press "Home" and "Power" button at the same time when you click "Start", and hold for 10 seconds. The program will count it for you.
3. After 10 seconds passing, release "Power" and keep pressing "Home" for another 10 seconds.
When you're told that you've successfully entered the DFU mode, the program will automatically scan your iPhone for data.
Second Step. After the scan, you can preview all found data in categories. To preview your photos, you can choose Camera Roll or Photo Stream. Photos found here are not only those deleted, but also includes those still on your iPhone. If you only want to get those deleted pictures, you can refine the result by sliding the button in the red area on the interface below, to only display deleted items. Mark those you want and click "Recover" to save them on your computer.
Methods 2 iPhone Photo Recovery from iTunes Backup
Two simple steps to recover photos from iPhone after restore from iTunes backup.
STEP-1. Choose the iPhone backup to scan
Install and run the iPhone Data Recovery program on your PC. Don't connect and sync your iPhone with iTunes when you recover data from your iPhone. You'll have to choose your device type to scan first.
After checking your device type and selecting "Recover Data from iTunes Backup File" mode, all iDevice backups will be showed here. You only need to choose the backup of your iPhone, and proceed to "Start Scan".
STEP-2. Recover iPhone 5 Photos
After finish scanning, all contents in iTunes backup file have been displayed, and you can preview and check them one by one. Check those you want back and hit to "Recover" and select a path to save them.
What you should know: After finding photos missing from your iPhone and before recovering the deleted photos, in case of data loss, you should not use iPhone anymore until you find those photos, or connect and sync iPhone to iTunes, otherwise iTunes may take a new backup of iPhone overwriting the old backup file, and then you will never be able to get back your lost photos.
