How to Recover and Extract iPhone Backup Files after Updating to iOS 8

A great many of Apple users are so crazy about the new iOS 8 system, as the iOS 8 did brings kinds of useful and amazing features to your apple device. However, there is undoubted that many Apple users are encountering problems of data loss after updating their iPhone/iPad/iPod. As I said in my last article a few days ago, Updating IOS 8, Something you Need to Consider, which specially aim to give some warm tips for those who want to update their iDeives.

I have read a thread on Apple Discussion, “After updating iPhone to iOS 8, I lost all of my contacts, text messages and imessages. My iPhone blocked and cannot connect with computer, all backup files is useless for me. Is there any way to extract them from iPhone backup and get them back? ”. It is really a disaster when you failed to update your iPhone and lost your valuable data as well.

If you have available iTunes backup, Yolisoft Free iPhone Backup Extractor is thoroughly enough to get your lost data back. It is a totally free tool to explore, browse, extract and retrieve data from iTunes backup of your iPhone/iPad/ iPod Touch without connecting device to computer. You are allowed to recover and extract photos, videos, text messages, contacts, call history, attachments, whatsapp messages, notes, and so forth.

 

Step 1, download, install and run the Free iPhone Backup Extractor on your computer. The size of download file is around 15MB which is totally risk-free and green software. After installing the iPhone Backup Extractor, double click the icon, the free tool will automatically scan out all iTunes backup files on your computer, select the one you want to extract files and tap “Next” to the following step.

Step 2, Specify File Types you need to extract from iTunes backup. In this step, you will see all the files type which can be previewed and extracted, including camera roll, photo stream, app photos, app videos, messages, message attachments, contacts, call history, notes, WhatsApp, WhatsApp attachments, reminder, calendar, and Safari bookmark. Check the types you want, or you can select all, then click “Next” to go to the scanning process.

Step 3, Preview and extract files from iTunes backup. After scanning finished, the content of your iTunes backup file will be displayed on the left side of scan result. Meanwhile, it allows you directly print out contacts, messages, WhatsApp messages from iTunes backup. If you want to print out photos, please save it on your computer firstly. Click “Recover” to save and extract the files you need on your computer.

Tip 1: To avoid unnecessary data loss of your iTunes backup, you’d better not sync your iPad/iPhone/iPod with iTunes. Otherwise, the iTunes backup file will probably be updated and overwritten by new data on your device.

Tip 2: The Free iPhone Backup Extractor is designed to extract data from the unlocked iTunes backup. For encrypted iTunes backup files, you need type the password to unlock it at first. Or you can only preview the contents. If by any chance that you forgot the password of iTunes, Yolisoft iTunes Backup Unlocker may be suitable for you in this case. 

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