How to recover iPhone backup photos, videos, sms, contacts, call history from iTunes Mountain Lion?

Posted by Selena Green
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Jan 15, 2013
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Backing up your iPhone data to iTunes is essential to ensure against damage or loss to your iPhone. The process will also make it possible to easily transfer data from your device to a new iPhone. Following are the simple steps to backup iPhone to iTunes.
1.Connect the iPhone to the computer with a USB cable.
2.Open iTunes
3.Click on your iPhone under “DEVICE” in the left menu
4.Make sure the Summary tab at the top of iTunes is selected
5.Under the backup section, check the “Back up to this computer” radio button.
6.Click the sync button.

The iTunes backup files are stored on your computer, when you accidentally deleted them from your iPhone, you can use the backup file on your computer to restore them. The only problem is that iTunes does not allow you to access or browse the backup contents of your iPhone, but you can do this with some third party application.

iPhone Backup Recovery is such a beneficial application specially designed for Mac OS X Mountain Lion users to recover iPhone deleted/lost file from iTunes backup. The program can comprehensively restore/extract iPhone deleted photos, videos in camera roll, sms, contacts, call records, notes, voice memos, calendar events, reminds, etc from iTunes backup file.

The biggest feature of the program is its “Preview & Check Backup Contents” function, which enables you to preview the recoverable files in details by category before the recovery process. For example, you can check photos and videos in camera roll, view contacts in details including addresses, job title, etc, read SMS contents including iMessages, photos, videos, etc.

Step by step guide to restore/extract iPhone backup photos, videos, sms, contacts, call history, notes, voice memos, etc from from iTunes Mountain Lion?

1.Select iTunes backup of iPhone to scan.
Install and launch Data Recovery for iTunes, and all the devices that have synced to your Mac iTunes will display on the main panel. Highlight your iPhone and then press the right-bottom “Start Scan” button.

Recover iPhone backup photos, videos, sms, contacts, call history, notes, etc from iTunes on Mac OS X Mountain Lion

2.Preview and recover iPhone backup files.
When the scan is finished, files previously synced by iTunes will be listed in categories (camera roll, photo stream, contacts, message, message attachments, calendar, notes, reminders, voice memos, etc) on the top left of the window. Click them one by one to view the files in details in the right panel.
Select the files that you want to recover, and then click the “Recover” button in the menu bar next to the Back button to begin the recovery process.

Recover iPhone backup photos, videos, sms, contacts, call history, notes, etc from iTunes on Mac OS X Mountain Lion


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