How to Back Up and Restore iPhone Data on Computer

Do you realize that it is necessary to back up your vital data from iPhone to computer? Well, you can also back up iPhone to iCloud or iTunes. After backing up your iPhone to iCloud, you can use a copy of the information when your device is replaced, lost or damaged. For most people, 5GB of free iCloud storage space is obviously not enough. If you need more iCloud storage space, you need to purchase it. It is hard to imagine that you obviously backed up your iPhone to iTunes and iCloud, but when you accidentally delete your iPhone data and want to restore from the backup, you will find that the restoration process needs to erase and overwrite the original data in the phone, which will also bring more much trouble. It’s really a challenge for you to restore iPhone in this way.

Well, the third-party data recovery tool - iPhone Data Recovery supports you to selectively recover your deleted data from iPhone directly, from iTunes backup and iCloud backup. In addition to this approach, you can directly use iPhone Data Transfer application to backup and restore iPhone data on computer.

It is easy enough to transfer various types of data files between iPhone/iPad/iPod and computer, including photos, notes, app data, contacts, videos, and more.

Unlike iCloud and iTunes backup, iPhone Data Recovery is previewable, selectable, and usable when backing up different data types. You don't need to export the content of the entire file type, just select the data which you want to transfer. Moreover, when restoring iPhone from backup, it is also previewable and selectable. Any data in the device will not be overwritten when restoring iPhone, so there is no need to worry about the loss of other data.

How To Back Up iPhone Data to Computer

Step 1. Download and install the iPhone data recovery software on computer and you can choose the option of "iOS Data Backup & Restore", then you will go to new interface, tap "iOS Data Backup", then using a usb cable to connect iPhone to the computer, you will see a pop-up on iPhone screen, tap "Trust" to left iPhone trust this computer, the software will detect iPhone immediately.

Step 2. Now you will see many data type on the screen, such as photos, app videos, app audios, documents, call logs, contacts and more, just choose the data type you want to backup and click "Next" button to move on.

Step 3. The software will set "Standard Backup" as default option, if you want to set a password for backup, you can switch to "Encrypted Backup" option, after that, you can click "Start" to go on.

Step 4. Now you will see a pop-up on the software to left you choose a target folder to save all selected data, choose one and click "OK" button to start sync data to PC immediately, after that, you can check backup on the computer.

How to Restore iPhone on Computer

If you have backed up iPhone data to computer with iPhone data recovery software, you can restore backup files back to iPhone selectively.

Step 1. Run the iPhone data recovery software on computer and tap "iOS Data Backup & Restore" option, choose "iOS Data Restore" option in new windows.

Step 2. All backup files which you create before will display on the software, you will see the backup name, ios version, latest backup date, serial number, backup size, choose the backup contain the deleted files and tap view now to go on.

Step 3. Now the software will show all detail information for selected backup files, tap one data type on the left sidebar and view data on the right, select the data you want and click "Restore to PC" or "Restore to Device" to get data back.

Note: If you have backed up iPhone to iTunes or iCloud, you can extract the backup instead of restoring the entire backup to iPhone, you can switch to "iPhone Data Recovery" option, go to "Recover from iTunes Backup" or "Recover from iCloud Backup" to extract backup files for iPhone. If you did not back up iPhone, you can switch to "Recover from iOS Device" mode, it provide a feature for you to scan iPhone internal memory directly, and you can selectively restore data you need.

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