How to Recover Data After Restore iPhone to Factory Settings

"Some important data lost on my iPhone5 after factory reset, I had not backed it up, is it possible to recover data after iPhone factory settings and how?”

Have you ever encountered the situation above? When there is something wrong with your iPhone, and you have to restore iPhone to factory settings. Unfortunately, you find some important data lost on your iPhone after factory reset. You were eager to recover data after iPhone factory settings. Here I’ll introduce you 2 ways to recover data from iPhone after factory reset.

If you lost all of your iPhone data after factory restore, you can choose to restore the whole content by using iTunes, iTunes will automatically generate a backup files for your iPhone when you synced with it every time. But the problem is iTunes doesn’t allow you to restore data selectively. If only parts of the data are lost and you don’t want to erase all the current data on your iPhone and restore to previous backup files, you need a third-party tool to help you.

Pavtube iOS Data Recoveryis a reliable iPad/iPod/iPhone data recovery software, which can extract iTunes backup to recover iPhone data after factory reset, also can directly scanning your iOS Device when you have no backups.
Download the free trial version of iOS Data Recovery to have a try.

Solution 1: Recover iPhone data after factory reset by extracting iTunes backup

Pavtube iOS Data Recovery can help to recover up to 11 types of files from iPhone/iPad/iPod backup.

Step 1. Choose an iTunes backup and starts to scan

Run iOS Data Recovery on the computer, Choose "Recover from iTunes Backup" On the main interface.
ios data recovery interface

Step 2. Select backup of your iPhone for scan
All the iTunes backup files of your iOS Device which has ever synced with iTunes on this computer will be automatically found and listed here. Choose the latest iPhone backup and click “start to scan”.
choose a backup file windows

Note: If your iTunes backup is not displayed here, it's probably because you have not synced your device with iTunes on this computer.

Step 3. Preview data in iTunes backup
After quick scanning, you can see a bar containing tabs of camera roll, photo stream, contacts, messages, call history, calendar, notes, etc. click on different tabs to preview items (except for videos) and selectively mark and recover those you want by click the “Recover” button at the at the top-left to save them on your computer.
scan from iTunes backup

Solution 2: Directly recover data from iPhone after factore reset

Pavtube iOS Data Recovery allowed you retrieve contacts, messages, call history, notes, calendar, etc directly from your iPhone;

Step 1: Connect your iPhone to computer
Run iOS Data Recovery on your computer; connect your iPhone to the computer with USB cable. Then select the "Recover from iOS Device". You'll see the window below.
user interface recover from ios

Step 2: Start scanning your iPhone
iOS Date Recovery will automatically scan your iPhone to find out and analyze all the existing and deleted files.

Step 3: Preview and recover data selectively
After the scan, you can easily preview all data found on your iPhone in the scan result. Click the categories on the top side of the window like camera roll, contacts, messages, etc. then preview the content and selectively mark what you want to save them on your computer.
scan ios device