How to Recover Lost or Deleted Kik Messages and Pictures
kik is a social software for mobile phone address book, which can directly establish a connection with contacts based on the local address book, and on this basis, realize functions such as free SMS chat, caller ID, personal status synchronization and so on. To put it simply, kik is a "cross-platform application software that can send messages for free with friends who have also installed kik in their mobile phones." Compared with other IM (Gtalk、MSN、QQ), the advantage of kik is the super simple user experience, the real friend network that can no longer be real. As one of the most popular social software, it has more than 300 million users, so most users who use Kik will keep a lot of valuable data, such as important text messages/photos/videos with family, friends, colleagues and other contacts.
Kik Messenger is used on iOS, Android and Windows device, we need to know that the chat information will not be stored on the Kik server, so many people will backup Kik messages to iTunes, iCloud, Google Cloud. But when we accidentally delete important Kik messages or photos, even if we have a backup, we don't know How to extract them, and restoring the entire backup will result in the loss of existing data, so extracting the backup is an important issue. And many times we don't make backups at all, so it's hard to restore lost Kik messages directly from the phone. In this article, we will discuss how to recover deleted Kik messages or pictures, if you have the same problem, you can refer to the article for solutions.
Part 1. How to Recover Deleted Kik Messages and Pictures from iPhone
iPhone Data Recovery program allow you recover lost or deleted Kik messages and pictures from iPhone with or without backup, it provides three recovery mode for you to get back lost iPhone data, no matter you delete data by accidentally, factory reset, iOS upgrade, stuck at white screen/black screen or other program.
Main Features about iPhone Data Recovery:
- Best iOS data recovering and backing up tool to recover and backup iOS data to PC or Mac.
- Three recovery mode to recover iPhone data: Recover from iOS device, recover from iTunes backup, recover from iCloud backup.
- Recover files over 22+ types such as photos, videos, contacts, messages, attachments, call history, notes, documents, whatsApp, Line, Kik, Skype, Webchat etc.
- Fix iOS system and get it back to normal.
- Transfer WhatsApp messages between two iOS devices, back up or restore WhatsApp messages in one-click.
Download and install the iPhone data recovery software to your computer and start the recovery process.
Steps to Recover Deleted Kik Messages from iPhone Directly
Step 1. Run the iPhone data recovery software on your windows or Mac, there are several features on the main homepage, tap on "iPhone Data Recovery", the software will go to default recovery mode "Recover from iOS Device". Link your iPhone to the computer with a usb cable, you will see a pop-up on iPhone screen, tap "Trust" and the software will detect iPhone immediately, you can see the iPhone interface, tap "Start Scan" button to scan iPhone storage.
Step 2. When the scan is over, you can see data type on left sidebar, such as Camera Roll, photo stream, photo library, app videos, app audios, contacts, call history and others, tap "Kik" and "Kik Attachments", preview related Kik messages and pictures on the right, tick all Kik messages and photos you want, click "Recover" button to restore them.
Steps to Extract iTunes Backup for Lost Kik Messages and Pictures
Step 1. Choose "Recover from iTunes Backup" mode after you run the iPhone data recovery tool and tap on "iPhone Data Recovery" feature, you will see all iTunes backup list in order on the windows, choose one backup contain the lost Kik messages then click "Start Scan" button to extract it.
Step 2. After scanning, you can tap data type "Kik" and "Kik Attachments", view Kik data in detail on the right, mark all Kik data you want and press "Recover" button to get them back.
Steps to Extract iCloud Backup for Lost Kik Messages and Pictures.
Step 1. Choose "Recover from iCloud Backup" after you launch the iPhone recovery application, using Apple ID and password to login iCloud account. After login iCloud successfully, you can click "iCloud Backup" and the software will list all iCloud backup files, pick up one backup you want and click "Download" to get it to PC, then tap "Scan" button to extract it.
Step 2. Wait for some time, the software will finish the scan process, tap data type "Kik" and "Kik Attachments", view detail information for Kik messages, tick all Kik messages and pictures you want and click "Recover" button to get them back.
Part 2. How to Recover Deleted Kik Pictures from Android Phone
Recovering Kik pictures on Android is a bit more complicated than on iPhone. You need to know, unlike iTunes iCloud, Google can't backup Kik pictures, so the best way is to look for these deleted Kik pictures directly from Android storage. In order to achieve this, it is necessary to resort to professional Android recovery software.
The Android Data Recovery software can help you recover all kinds of different data, no matter you delete data by accidentally, system update, root failure, factory reset, etc. Let’s see more feature about Android data recovery software.
1. Android Data Recovery: Recover Android photos, videos, contacts, text messages, call history, audio files, documents.
2. Preview deleted data before recovery, save them to computer or back to Android phone.
3. Broken Android Data Extraction: Professionally fix and extract files from broken/froze Android phone.
4. Android Data Backup & Restore: Selectively and flexible backup and restore Android Data.
5. Only read and recover the data, no personal info leaking.
Download and install the Android recovery tool on computer.
Step 1. Launch the Android data recovery software on computer and go to "Android Data Recovery" mode.
Step 2. Using a usb cable to link Android phone to the computer, the software will prompt you to enable usb debugging on your Android phone, follow the instruction to open it.
Step 3. Tick data type "Gallery" and "Picture library", then click "Next".
Step 4. The software will install FoneGo your Android phone, and it will root the phone. After that, the software will send a request to access the picture, click "Allow" and tap "I Have Authorized".
Step 5. The software will spend some time the scan Android internal memory, after scanning, you can see all photos on scan result, view each photos in detail on the windows, mark all photos you want and click "Recover" button to get Kik pictures back.