iPhone Data Recovery Tips
November 29th, 2017
Many of us depend on our iPhones for everything including taking pictures of our kids, messaging, downloading songs, and using email and apps. Or phones are an integral part of our lives. Everyone is prone to losing data on a mobile device. Here are the top tips in case it happens.
Stop using the iPhone
Power the device off and remove the SIM card. The SIM card is a key point of fault for your iPhone device. If it is safe to do so, you should remove it right away. Anti-static bags should be used for storing any components you remove, and each should be stored separately. Using the phone can cause damage.
Remove the battery
If an iPhone suffered any physical trauma, accidental damager or water spill the battery can become damaged and may be unsafe to keep in your device. The battery has no bearing on data recovery, so it can be disposed of.
Seek Professional Help
When Apple launched the iPhone 5, the data on the phone was encrypted in order to protect it. When an iPhone experiences a logical failure or hardware failure often the device is stuck in a “Recovery” mode or “Device Firmware Upgrade (DFU)” mode. A data recvoery engineer is often complex requiring decrypting of the data.
iCloud and iTunes
iCloud and iTunes backups can be a valuable source for recovering your pictures, contacts, or messages from an iPhone. Searching and extracting data from iTunes backup can be difficult and a professional can recover data in those cases.
Types of Data Loss on a Mobile Device
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