Sunday, December 21, 2014

How to Extract Photos from iPhone Backup with iPhone Backup Extractor

Photos for recording your precious memories can take up large amount of space on your iPhone over time. Creating a backup for your iPhone data with iTunes does copy all photos, while getting them back will absolutely overwrite the new photos. In that case, you may want to extract photos from iPhone backup to computer without losing any data on iPhone. Actually, it is really easy to do that. So all you need to do is using a free iPhone Backup Extractor to transfer photos from iPhone backup to Windows/PC.

Before entering the topic of “Extract Photos from iPhone Backup with Free iPhone Backup Extractor”. I’d like to mention another free way to extract photos from iTunes backup. Firstly, find the location of backup files:


Windows XP:
\Documents and Settings\(username)\Application Data\Apple
Computer\MobileSync\Backup\

Windows Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8:
\Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\

The files under the folder “Backup”you just found is actually a SQLite database. The tables can be read and queried like any other database using SQL commands. If you have SQL experience, you can directly view and copy the photos from iTunes backup. For most of iPhone users who are not very command of SQL, you can just read on and learn how to extract photos from iPhone backup with Free iPhone Backup Extractor.



 


iPhone Backup Extractor Key Features 

  • You can selectively extract and transfer photos from iTunes backup. It can not only extract photos, but also extract text messages, contacts, videos, call logs, notes, calendar, reminders and more from iPhone backup to computer.
  • No need to connect your iPhone to computer. You are allowed to browse and extract photos from iPhone backup even you get iPhone damaged/lost.
  • Simple-to-use and risk-free. It’s easy to extract and transfer photos from iPhone backup in a few clicks.
  • 100% free for personal use with full support on extracting photos from iPhone backup.
  • Preview all recoverable data and selectively retrieve/extract whatever you want.

How to Use iPhone Backup Extractor 

Step 1: Run Free Yolisoft iTunes Backup Extractor and select backup files. This freeware will automatically detect backup files on your computer. Choose the one which with your photos.

Step 2: Specify file types. You will see various file types, simply select “Photo Stream” and “Camera Roll” and click “Next”. Or you can also select “Messages Attachments” and “WhatsApp Attachments” to extract the attachments which with lots of photos.


Step 3. Preview and extract photos from iPhone backup. After scanning finishes, you will see the photos found on iTunes backup be displayed on the left list. Choose photos you want to extract and hit “Recover”. Then you can save the photos on your computer. 



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2 comments:

  1. If you do have an iPhone backup and you know for sure that part of your photos are inside that backup you can use iOS Backup Extractor to extract your photos for the backup. Test the free version, it should work for you.

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