iPhone Data Recovery for Mac OS X

Apple's iPhone becomes more popular every year, devices running iOS are considered secure and safe, and are definitely becoming more and more complex. If you ever accidentally deleted or lost valuable data on your iPhone, you know how hard it may be to recover iOS data yourself. Disk Drill takes complexity out of the equation.
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iPhone Data Recovery for Mac OS X

iOS Data Recovery with Disk Drill

Disk Drill, iOS data recovery software, supports any device with iOS 5-10 on iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.
  • iOS 5-10
  • Any version of iTunes

How iPhone Recovery Works

Was there an app or system malfunction that led to data loss on your iPhone or iPad? Jailbreak failure or unfinished iOS upgrade? Damaged device? Many reasons may lead to missing data. Disk Drill 3 introduces iPhone data recovery mode that also works for all devices running iOS. Disk Drill can scan your iPhone directly or extract lost data from iOS backups stored in iTunes. Multiple data types can be recovered from your iOS devices. Read on to find more on how to recover deleted iPhone data.

Now it's time to get Disk Drill 3 on your Mac, connect your iOS device, locate it in Disk Drill, click "Recover" and wait for the scanning to complete. You can scan any of the iTunes backups stored on your Mac as well, you can extract a ton of valuable data from your past backups. iCloud backups recovery is also coming soon.
  • 1
    Connect your iPhone to your Mac
    Make sure Disk Drill is running. Find your iOS device in Disk Drill. Click "Recover".
  • 2
    Scan your iPhone for lost data
    Let Disk Drill scan your iPhone or iPad for recoverable data. It usually takes a few minutes.
  • 3
    Recover what was found
    Review deleted and existing contacts, calls, photos and more. Select the ones for recovery.

Your iOS Device Is Supported

Disk Drill recovers data from any iOS device with iOS 5-10 on board. This covers all new iPhones, iPads and iPods. Classic iPods that don't run on iOS are scanned as regular USB-connected drives and produce slightly differently structured results.
  • iPhone 4/4s/5/5s
  • iPhone 6/6+
  • iPhone 6s/6s+
  • iPhone 7/7+
  • iPod Touch
  • iPad/iPad Air
  • iPad mini
  • iPad PRO

The Magic behind iPhone Recovery

Data recovery from iOS devices is generally more complicated than a regular Mac file recovery process. When Disk Drill scans your iOS device for lost data directly, it creates an invisible iTunes backup file that has all the device's databases in it. Then Disk Drill runs its own iOS data recovery tools to rebuild your iOS files and data structures to list with everything recoverable.
The same iOS data recovery process takes place when an existing iTunes backup is analyzed by Disk Drill.

Types of Recovered Data

Disk Drill 3 will help you recover various file and data types from your iPhone, iPad or iPod. iOS data recovery is mostly related to these ones.
  • Camera Roll Photos (JPG, PNG, GIF, TIFF)
  • Videos
    (MP4, MOV)
  • Contacts (VCF)
  • Calendar (ICS)
  • VoiceMemo Recordings (M4A, MP3, AAC)
  • Text notes (HTML)
  • Notes with attachments (EML)
  • Bookmarks (HTML)
  • Chats, texts from Messages (CSV)
  • Call history (CSV)
Why Quick and Deep Scan Recovery are not available for iOS Devices?

When is iOS data recovery useful?

Your data can be lost any time. There are plenty of possible situations that would lead to that. Generally, Disk Drill's iOS data recovery may be useful in these cases.
    • Failed iOS update
    • Unfinished jailbreaking
    • Water damage
    • Locked device
    • Infinite reboot
    • Damaged screen

Other Data Recovery Cases

Disk Drill is one of the best multi-purpose do-it-yourself data recovery tools, including iOS data recovery. If you can connect your device to your Mac, get Disk Drill to recover your lost data.
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Clients and Experts Say

  • Sam Featherstone
    I’d like to say thank you as I have already recovered all my necessary files after I formatted over an HFS+ volume with FAT32. To be clear I had a 1TB external hard drive formatted as one HFS+ partition on El Captain. I accidentally ‘soft’ formatted the whole drive as FAT32. I used your application and recovered all my files since my last Time Machine backup. Again, thank you.
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    We'll all experience data loss at some point in our computer-using lives so the more we can prevent it, the better. But when that fateful day does happen, you now know that there’s still a lot more you can do and data recovery isn't as scary (or expensive) as it sounds! Jordan Merrick

Ultimate iPhone Data Recovery Tool

Disk Drill 3
Retrieve Lost iOS Data from iPhone, iPad, iPod
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