Pretty sure my iPhone can’t travel in time, so this is just a tiny glitch. Not all the data is tagged properly, however: those of you with eagle eyes will notice that the date of the last message is. Jumping into the “Messages” category is really interesting too, because it turns out that there are a lot of discussions that I thought I’d deleted from my iPhone but are still in the raw data archives:Īs you can see on the right pane, it shows the back and forth messages in a very iPhone-esque way too, in this case a discussion between my friend Kevin and I from a while back. Now if the program could just find the darn speaker itself, but that’s another story. There it is, a photo of my long-lost Motorola Sol Republic Deck speaker in yellow and black. That output folder looks good, so I’ll click on “Recover” and Windows then promptly shows me what’s happened: I’ll choose a single image by clicking on its checkbox then clicking “Recover” on the lower right… This feature by itself is terrific in my opinion, but this program is FonePaw iPhone Data Recovery, so it’s easy to grab and save a copy of any of these images, or even a bunch at once. Well, look at all those photos! These are pictures that I’ve either sent or received across the many, many people I communicate with via sms text message. That data’s interesting by itself, but where this gets interesting is once it’s done scanning, because then you can explore and examine all of this data with the click of a button.įor example, I’ll click on those Message Attachments to have a peek: On the left side you can hopefully see that it found 776 photos in the Camera Roll, 592 in the Photo Stream, 120 in the Photo Library, 169 text messages and a startling 555 message attachments (I can only conclude people send me a lot of photos via text message!), 1023 contacts, 1462 entries in my call history (sorry Homeland Security, I don’t really want to share that data with you □ ), and 119 voicemail messages. In the above, it’s still scanning the iPhone but can at least begin to show results. This step can take a while, so it’s probably a good time to grab a cup of coffee or take a bio-break, as appropriate.įinally, though, it finished scanning and the results were quite impressive, albeit a bit tricky to read at first: Once that was solved, the program began scanning the 64GB iPhone: After trying a couple of different solution paths, I figured out that if I went into iTunes and simply clicked the “eject” button for the device, it then freed up my iPhone 6 so that FonePaw iPhone Data Recovery could then attach to it. This turns out to be a bit tricky to solve because the background synchronization task from iTunes is a separate app than iTunes itself. I fixed that, then it was time for a behind-the-scenes death match between iPhone Data Recovery and iTunes itself: I can’t imagine what’s taking up so much space! □ ![]() I do trust this computer and software program, so a tap on “Trust” is all that’s needed. But life’s not always that easy, because behind the scenes there are some potential conflicts that can appear and for me, well, I appear to hit them all.įirst I had some issues with *cough* available disk space: Modern versions of iOS have some security to stop surreptitious iPhone scanners that are masquerading as “free charging ports”, so the program prompts you to “trust” the computer. Quick to download, it’s easy to get started once launched: Still, the need to be able to crack open the iPhone and get to the data inside remains.Įnter the very impressive iPhone Data Recovery application for Mac and Windows PC systems from FonePaw.įor this evaluation, I installed it on a laptop running Microsoft Windows 8.1. Ya just don’t know where the stored credit card transactions, the intimate texts between you and a significant other and even the phone book and all its numbers, birthdays and email addresses might end up. There are a few open source programs that offer some of this capability, but as they’re written by hackers with unknown motivations, I’m always a bit leery about recommending people use unknown software that is then privvy to the often remarkably personal data from their smartphones. ![]() Lots of reasons you might want to be able to dig through your iPhone, or iPhone backup, whether on your computer or stored in iCloud, for that matter. Then there are the photos that you deleted a few weeks ago and now realize you want to recover, or that voice mail message you really need to hear just one more time. Every few weeks someone asks me if there’s a way to archive text messages from their iPhone and until now my answer has been either to make sure you’re hooked up with iCloud so that they also show up on your Mac (if you have a Mac) or that they’re probably out of luck.
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