What Should I Do If I Lose Data after Restoring My iPhone? 2019 Guide

What Should I Do If I Lose Data after Restoring My iPhone?

First of all, without backing up your data first, you will lose all of your data for good. Doing a restore wipes everything—your files, your contacts, your apps, and so on. If you have a backup, though, you can rescue your lost data by simply restoring the backup onto your iPhone after it is wiped.

Now you might be wondering how you can restore your iPhone from a previous backup. The process is actually very simple, and there are a few ways that you can do it:
Restore iPhone from Previous Backup Using iTunes

This is the official method of restoring your backup. Assuming you made a backup in iTunes before you factory restored your iPhone (which is advisable), all you have to do is follow these steps:

(1) Launch iTunes on your PC or Mac and connect your device via USB.

(2) Click on your device in iTunes. You should see a summary page on the main screen.

(3) On the summary page, click Restore Backup... in iTunes. You can find this under "Backups" and "Manually Back Up and Restore" towards the bottom.

(4) Choose a backup. It will show the dates and times for the backups, and normally you pick the most recent. Of course, if you wiped your iPhone because you were having software issues, you might want to restore from an older backup.

(5) Click Restore and wait until iTunes finishes restoring the backup. Do not unplug your iPhone during this time.Also Read:Remove the U2 Album from iPhone in 2019



Now, there are some disadvantages to this method as well. For example:


You can't restore your media files in the backup, such as the songs that you had saved in your iPhone's storage. (You will have to add them later via an iTunes sync—if you purchased the music through iTunes.)


You might not need all of the data in the backup, but there's no way to selectively restore. You will have to restore the whole backup.


Sometimes you might encounter a restore error when you try to restore an iTunes backup. iTunes can be buggy occasionally.Also Read:Set a Voice Recording as a Ringtone on iPhone Xs/X/8/7/6s