Comments on: How To: Recover iPhone app data after a clean restore (OSX)

By: Cheryl Thornton Bell

Cheryl Thornton Bell — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 22:43:00 +0000

Hi there – I am not seeing anything listed but the last backup for my iPhone (in your screenshot, multiple backup dates are listed) Can you please help?

By: Romandy

Romandy — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 06:03:00 +0000

Thank you so much! you make my day 😀

By: STFU

STFU — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 20:44:00 +0000

fuck you, data off the phone not a backup on your mac!

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:05:30 +0000

Will this work on a windows XP? I don’t have an apple.
Lost my Trip Cubby data.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 05:32:25 +0000

Hate to say that this didn’t work for the Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12 app.

By: oleg

oleg — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:57:21 +0000

I lost everything from my iPhone when wrong password was typed too many times (child played).
Then I respored iPhone from Backup (one month old….).
I see just one month old photoes…..

Is it possible to recover all newer photoes now?
Will it help me if i reset iPhone now -> then make all procedures as you described above

By: gabe

gabe — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 06:22:05 +0000

Thank you so much I was able to restore two years of Bible notes and highlights. Thank you!!

By: jaime

jaime — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:03:20 +0000

THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!
This helped me restore the only pictures I had of myself pregnant…along with a lot of other info I would have been sad to lose!!!!

By: Brandon

Brandon — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 12:22:22 +0000

In reply to PRINCPN. You need to backup to your computer - NOT iCloud.

By: Catherine Ross

Catherine Ross — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 10:17:30 +0000

Can I just thank you from the bottom of my heart. I lost 3 years of a gratitude diary by updating the app – and a LOT happened in those years. I thought the beautiful record of my life was completely lost. Using the extractor and explorer – it’s BACK.
thank you so much.

By: PRINCPN

PRINCPN — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 17:26:52 +0000

Hi. Can you tell me what kind of “backup” you are doing before running these steps. I did an iCloud backup first before running these apps and I do not see these types of files. Thanks for the information.

By: Isaiahnjesus11

Isaiahnjesus11 — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:14:17 +0000

Hello everyone i know that this website wasnt made for questions but i need help BIG TIME!!!!!!!!! Ok i just got done restoring my ipod and now it deleted all data on it!!!!!!!! And i want to know how to get it back!!! Someone help please!!!!!

By: Afif

Afif — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 01:57:52 +0000

Heylo admin,

I restored my iphone and i backup myphone with itunes. Suddenly this itunes required password but im totally sure i did not put any password. I came across this website and im very lucky because i can recover my iOS files using iphone backup extrator. BUT my problem is after i extract iOS folder and use the iExplorer to paste all the iOS file into my iPhone i cannot open the file picture. Please please please guide me how to make my old iOS file that contains my old pictures to my iPhone using iExplorer or else i will miss my old priceless pintures ;(
Thanks in advance~

By: Des

Des — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:51:47 +0000

All I needed was iExplorer, although I had also downloaded Picturescue. This little app is absolutely fabulous. It saved me from a bit of heartache. I’d forgotten to do a full import of all photos on my iphone prior to upgrading to iOS5. iExplorer came to my rescue. Brilliant! Thanks to the people at Macroplant.

By: D3 Bing

D3 Bing — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:13:49 +0000

dude, this is just perfect. I always wanted to do a new phone (I have been using the backup since iPhone 2G) and now I finally can without loosing my Angry Birds progress. Thanks so much.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 06:12:33 +0000

When I filled up the tank tonight I realized I hadn’t completely thought through what I might lose doing a clean restore. Thankfully, a Google search landed me here. Once I restored my data to the Road Trip app, I realized there was other data that was actually more important including some that I knew I could copy and paste from a Drobbox backup. You saved me a lot of time. I’ll definitely share your link including in some app reviews where I’ve seen people complaining about apps where they haven’t been able to restore data.

By: sean

sean — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:11:09 +0000

I also lost my gas cubby data however I have a Windows 7 machine.
Can you provide and help to locate this informantion via Windows?

By: asher

asher — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:49:12 +0000

I want to restore sms ans, call history and photos to photo roll, I ended up successfully jailbreaking the phone with redsnow (for iOS5) which is a tethered jailbreak and then was able to see root. Only problem was I couldnt find the right version of library and media to restore the data to. I ended up copying DCIM for photos, but they wouldn’t load then i found the directory structure i was searching for under i think VAR under root, restored the call history but then itunes would sync. Any ideas without rejailbreaking phone? I was able to com,pletely reset the phone and restore syncing capability after going into iexplorer.exe on a win 7 box and deleting all root folders. a regualr itunes restore would clear all my manually entered data from memory. I then forced reboot the phone and closed iexpolorer then the itunes conect prompt came up as it was a blank phone. I then restored via ios 5 and setup as a new phone. Any ideeas how to more easily restore sms and call histories? maybe merge them to newer ones?

By: Brandon

Brandon — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:51:17 +0000

In reply to beverley. Should work just fine -

By: Brandon

Brandon — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:50:44 +0000

In reply to wtf.

Note the title of the article – AFTER A CLEAN RESTORE. In other words, one where we have restored the iPhone firmware but DO NOT intend to restore all the data from a backup.

Thanks for not paying attention.

By: wtf

wtf — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:26:50 +0000

typical mac moron. what you do here is simply restore from backup, not recover data.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:34:55 +0000

Outstanding information! We were having problems with phones that took a hit with the iOS5 battery drain issue. We have wiped the phones and only restored the data we needed for a few select apps. Thank you so much for the post!!

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:51:55 +0000

AWESOME Thanks so much. Got my gas cubby stuff back

By: beverley

beverley — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 21:06:18 +0000

Hi ! is it possible if i dont jailbreak my iphone? cause mine is the latest version 4.3.5..

By: Vina

Vina — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 03:32:47 +0000

Thank you very much! You saved me from reentering a LOT of data on three different apps!