How to Recover Lost IPhone Data After Upgrading to IOS 8

iOS 8: What’s New

Apple unveiled the long-waited iOS 8 to the world on June 2 at its WWDC 2014. And recently the latest iOS 8 beta 2 was released into the wild with some bugs fixed. Since there are so many new stunning features introduced by iOS 8 including interactive notification center, improved local dictation, facetime group chat, revised Apple map, etc, iPhone users are eager to install this new system on their iPhones.

How to Prepare for iOS 8 Launch on iPhone

History has taught us that accident always happens during iOS update no matter how perfect the upgrade would be. Many iPhone users have reported the problem of data loss after upgrading iPhone to the latest iOS in the past. So in order to make your iOS 8 update more smoothly, you would be getting into the habit of saving important files on iPhone before upgrading to iOS 8 and learn how to recover lost iPhone data after iOS 8 upgrade.

Step-by-Step: Recover iPhone Data After Upgrading to iOS 8

Here comes iPhone Data Recovery, a professional data recovery software for iPhone to backup iPhone data before iOS 8 upgrade as well as recover lost iPhone data after upgrading to iOS 8. Before getting started to recover lost iPhone data after iOS 8 upgrade, make sure you have downloaded and installed the free trial of iPhone Data Recovery for Mac or Windows on your computer.

Step 1: Connect and Scan IPhone

Launch the data recovery program on your computer and connect iPhone to it. Choose "Recover from iOS Device".

Then click "Start Scan" button to scan iPhone 5s/5c/5/4s.

iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS users need to follow the instructions shown on the program interface to get iPhone into scanning mode.

Step 2: Recover Lost Data on IPhone Running IOS 8

iOS Data Recovery for iPhone will scan your iPhone to find all the existing and lost data on it. You are able to preview the target files easily by clicking the specific categories such as Messages, Photos, Videos, Memos, Calls, etc on the left side of the program. Selectively mark those data you want to backup or recover and click "Recover" button to export them to your computer.