Along with the daily usage of your iPhone, various important files like contacts, messages, photos, calendars, reminders, notes, and more are gathered on iPhone. But iPhone is not always perfect. Sometimes, things happen and you need to restore iPhone to factory settings or restore iPhone from an iTunes/iCloud backup. Here comes the question, how to restore iPhone?
When your iPhone is running slowly, Wi-Fi or cellular connection doesn't work, can't track your location, or something is just wrong with your iOS device, you may need to restore iPhone and get it back to normal condition. Several methods are offered for you to restore iPhone. Just pick one when you have the need.
- Part 1. How to restore iPhone from backup (on iPhone)
- Part 2. How to restore an iPhone with iTunes
- Part 3. How to restore iPhone data without iTunes/iCloud backup
Part 1. How to restore iPhone from backup (on iPhone)
iCloud provides you an easy way to restore iPhone. All types of iOS data like pictures, messages, contacts, notes, calendars, etc. can be backed up by iCloud. So in the first part, we will show you how to restore iPhone from iCloud backup.
Step 1. Go to your iPhone and open "Settings" app.
Step 2. Tap "General" > "Reset" > "Erase All Content and Settings".
Step 3. Input password and then tap "Erase Now" to erase iPhone and restore iPhone to factory settings.
Step 4. After that, you can start to restore iPhone from a iCloud backup file. Tap "Restore from iCloud Backup".
Step 5. Enter your Apple ID to download the iCloud backup. After the iPhone restore, all previous settings and apps will be reinstalled on iPhone.
Actually, it's very important to learn how to backup iPhone to laptop with & without iTunes.
Part 2. How to restore an iPhone with iTunes
Similar to iCloud, iTunes can also back up all kinds of iOS data on iPhone. You can take the next guide to learn how to restore iPhone from iTunes backup.
Step 1. Launch the latest version of iTunes and connect iPhone to it.
Step 2. Click on the "device" button in the upper left corner of the iTunes window. Then click "Summary" on the left list.
Step 3. From the "Backups" > "Manually Back Up and Restore" interface, choose "Restore Backup" option.
Step 4. Select your preferred iTunes backup and click "Restore" to make iPhone restore from the iTunes backup.
With the methods above, you can find out that, it is important to back up your iPhone on a regular backup schedule. If you don't a suitable iCloud or iTunes backup, you can't restore your iPhone with the basic ways.
Part 3. How to restore iPhone data without backup
Don't want to restore iPhone with the whole previous backup? Or don't have a right iTunes/iCloud backup to restore your iPhone. What should you do? In that case, you can rely on the powerful iPhone restore tool, iPhone Data Recovery. You can free download it and have a try.
Step 1. Launch iPhone Data Recovery
Run this iPhone restoring software on your computer and connect your iPhone to it. Choose Recover from iOS Device.
Step 2. Scan iPhone data
Click Start Scan to scan iOS data on iPhone. When the scanning is finished, you can see all types of iPhone data are listed in categories on the left control.
Step 3. Restore iPhone
Choose one file type, you are allowed to check the detailed information of each data on the right window. Then you can select data and click Recover button to restore iPhone.
Within just a few clicks, you can handily restore your iPhone. You don't even need backup or password. Also, it enables you to restore iPhone from your iTunes/iCloud backup.
