11/09/2016

Restore Messages from Water Damaged iPhone

“How do I deal with my water damaged iPhone 5s? Can the data be recovered from it? Does anyone know that?”

When you get your iPhone dropped into water, the device usually can not start or goes into recovery mode. It may be too late for your iPhone but not your data. If you come to this article, you are the luck one. In this post, we are going to introduce 3 ways to recover data from water damaged iPhone.

In order to restore messages from water damaged iPhone, you should install the iPhone messages recovery software to help you. iRefone or iRefone for Mac is the professional iOS data recovery software to help you recover lost data directly from iOS devices or extract data from iTunes and iCloud backup. It supports to recover up to 16+ kinds of data in your iPhone, iPad and iPod. Messages, Contacts, Notes, WhatsApp, WeChat are all included. Here we will work you the ways to restore Messages from water damaged iPhone.

Download and install iRefone first to begin to the recovery process.



Method 1: Recover Messages Directly from Water Damaged iPhone

If your iPhone still can work but there is something wrong with the screen, you could extract data directly from the water damaged iPhone with iRefone.

Step 1: Run iRefone and connect iPhone with computer. Click on “Start” button.



Step 2: Then it will bring you to a interface to ask you choose the data you want to scan. Click on the icon of the “Messages” and the software will automatically scan and analysis your iPhone when you click on it.



Step 3: When the scanning is finished. All of the messages on your iPhone will be displayed. Select these messages you need and click on “Recover to PC” to save them on your computer.



If your iPhone is totally damaged by water and you luckily have iTunes or iCloud backup, you could use iRefone to extract Messages from iTunes or iCloud backup. Below are the steps of these two methods

Method 2: Restore Messages in Water-damaged iPhone from iTunes Backup

Step 1: Launch iRefone and choose “Recover from iTunes Backup” as the recovery mode. All of the iTunes backup files which you have ever synced with iTunes on this computer will be automatically found and listed in the software. Click “Select” or double click the backup you need to access the data interface.



Step 2: Choose the data you want to scan and recover. Click the icon of “Messages” to start the scanning.



Step 3: When the scanning is finished, preview the messages in your iTunes backup and pick out these messages you need to save on your computer. Click “Recover to PC” to choose the store folder.



Method 3: Recover Messages in Water-damaged iPhone from iCloud Backup

Step 1: Choose “Recover from iCloud Backup” to recover data. Sign in your iCloud account with Apple ID and passcode.



Step 2: Choose the data you want to recover in your iCloud. This process will reduce the time of downloading. The less data you choose, the less time wait for the downloading.



Step 3: When the downloading process is stopped, you can click the icon of Messages you need in your iCloud backup file.



Step 4: You could preview all of your messages in iCloud backup. Select these messages you need to backup them on your computer.

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