Recover iPhone Data: How to recover iPhone 6/5/5S/4S/4 data after iOS 8 upgrade

Making an upgrade to iOS 8 has its risks and pitfalls since even a well-engineered upgrade can sometimes fail and may lead to problems, like data loss. Some users have reported that after upgrading to iOS 8, their iPhone 5S was restored to factory settings and all the data stored on iPhone were gone. It's therefore important to take time and back up iPhone information and settings right before upgrading to iOS 8 via iTunes or iCloud. Because if you happen to lose the data on iPhone after upgrading to iOS 8, you can easily restore your iPhone from a previous iOS backup made via iTunes or iCloud.

However, if you just forgot to make an iOS 7 iTunes backup before upgrading to iOS 8 and finally found that the data were lost on iPhone after upgrading, what would you do? Fortunately, if that happens, you can still recover lost iPhone data. Because iTunes will automatically make backup of your iPhone every time you sync it to iTunes. You can't access to the backup because iTunes just stored it in unreadable format. So what you need is a professional iPhone data recovery program to help you extract the backup files from iTunes and restore the lost data on your iPhone.

Here we are introducing a user-friendly iPhone Data Recovery for you, which is adequate to restore iPhone after updating to iOS 8 easily in two steps: choosing the proper recovery mode as from iTunes backup and extracting the backup to restore your lost iPhone data.

You should firstly download the trial version for free:

Tutorial 1: Restore iPhone data after upgrading to iOS 8 with iPhone Data Recovery

Note: If the data is lost due to upgrade iOS on your iPhone, you're suggested to retrieve the lost data by extracting the iTunes backup. Because direct recovery from the device won't work much since the lost data has been overwritten by the updated system files.

Step 1. Choose the recovery mode and extract the iTunes backup

Launch the program on your computer and choose "Recover from iTunes Backup Files". Then the program will automatically find all iTunes backup files on your computer. Choose the one for your iPhone and click "Start Scan" to extract it.

Step 2. Restore the lost data on your iPhone running iOS 8

In a few minutes, after the scanning and extracting, you can preview almost the entire contents in the backup files. Check them one by one, and mark the items that you want to restore and click "Recover" to save them on your computer.