Summary: The iCloud backup comes as rescue in unfortunate incidents like data lost, deleted, or iPhone damaged or broken. This post shares how to recover deleted photos, videos, contacts, call history, messages, etc., from iCloud backup. Also, learn about the easiest and fastest tool – Stellar Data Recovery for iPhone, to restore deleted data on your iPhone or iPad.
With iCloud, Apple has ensured your data is safe and protected. After unfortunate incidents like iPhone loss, damage, broken, iOS crash, etc. that cause data loss, iCloud comes as a rescuer. However, there have been instances when users were not able to recover data from iCloud backup, like in the below cases:
Case 1: After the iOS 14 upgrade, Steve found that many of his contacts and messages were missing from his iPhone 13. He took to iCloud backup for the lost data on his device. But, to his surprise, none of the lost messages or contacts could be seen in the iCloud backup.
Case 2: Susan mistakenly deleted last year’s vacation pictures from her Camera Roll. She restored iCloud backup to recover those photos. Although she got back the vacation pictures on her iPhone but lost many of her other photos and videos.
This post shares how you can efficiently recover deleted or lost Photos, Videos, Camera Roll, Contacts, Call History, Messages, Notes, Reminders, Calendars, Safari Bookmarks, Voice Memos, WhatsApp Messages & Media Files, Tango, Kik Messages, Apps Library, etc., from iCloud Backup.
The shared methods are applicable for all iPhone series 13, 12, 11, XS, XR, X, 8 Plus, 8, 7 Plus, 7, 6 Plus, 6S, 6, 5S, 5C, 5, 4S, and 4 and iOS 14
Situations when iCloud recovery is the best way to go
Tip: Before going for iCloud recovery, don’t forget to backup your iPhone to iCloud, so that you don’t miss the most recent data on your iPhone. If the iOS device is already synced with iCloud, then directly retrieve from iCloud.
To restore your iPhone data from iCloud, sign in to your iCloud account and restore the saved backup file. However, the process erases the complete existing data from your iPhone.
In case, you don’t have the iPhone or it’s lost or broken, you can recover data from iCloud.com on your PC or Mac. It lets you restore deleted iPhone data from iCloud Drive and other apps.
Likewise, you can restore deleted Photos, Videos, Notes, Calendars, and Reminders.
iCloud.com also lets you recover the last 30 days’ deleted items from the ‘Recently Deleted folder in iCloud Drive on icloud.com
iCloud data recovery software is a reliable method to extract lost or deleted data from iCloud. The software lets you restore iCloud backup without deleting the existing iPhone data. While keeping your current iPhone data, you can restore the lost photos, videos, messages, voice memos, etc. Since with direct iCloud recovery, it’s not possible to restore individual contacts, messages, photos, videos, etc., the iCloud data recovery software remains a far more convenient utility.
It works in all iPhone data loss situations including deletion, theft, damage, iOS crash or iOS update, factory reset, etc.
Note: You don’t necessarily need to connect your iOS device to recover the iCloud backup. Connect it only when you want to save the recovered data on your iPhone.
The trial software scans the media and shows a preview of all the recoverable files. Once you are able to ascertain the effectiveness, you can save the recoverable files by activating the software.
Hope the post was helpful. Don’t forget to share your comments in the box below.
Harsha is a technical expert who loves Mondays, technology and is a big time Apple fan. She knows her way around the data loss problems and is always looking for ways to help out people.
Thank you for sharing, but can your software recover the data when there is no backup?
I’m asking this because one of my friends told me to use Joyoshare iPhone Data Recovery to recover my deleted messages from the phone, since I somehow don’t have any backup on iCloud. So I’m wondering can your product do this job too?
Hi, Blair, you can try our software Free version that allows you to scan & preview files from iPhone, iCloud and iTunes.
This doesn’t work for Notes.
Hi Daniel, We would like to inform you that the software is capable of recovering the notes as well from iCloud Backup. We recommend you complete the Deep Scan and we believe that you will be able to recover the data. If you have still an issue, please contact our support team through email support[@]stellarinfo.com or call at +1-877-778-6087. Thanks!
I had recently lost my iPhone in train. I would think it has been stolen. Now I found your blog on google and use the steps to recover iCloud Photo Library on another device and recover my personal photos. This information is helpful for me. Thanks!
Glad you found it helpful, Evan! More is on the way!