Is it Possible to Extract Messages from Broken iPad

It is really frustrated when your iPad(iOS 10 included) goes broken badly or becomes dead. That means you may suffer from data lost due to the disaster. There may be some important data like messages in iPad you want to extract from broken iPad. Many people only know that they can restore iPad whole data from iTunes backup with another iOS device if there is. Actually, there are still other ways for you to selectively extract messages from broken iPad.

For iTunes or iCloud backup, they will not allow you to access and extract directly, if you want to save iPad messages on computer, you can use the third-party recovery software, iRefone to extract iTunes and iCloud backup. This tool supports data like messages, notes, contacts, photos, whatsapp, wechat and more. You could preview and selectively extract these data you need.



Method 1: Extract Messages Directly from Broken iPad

If your iPad still can work but there is something wrong with the screen, and you have connected with computer before, you could extract messages directly from the broken iPad with iRefone.

Step 1: Run iRefone and connect iPad 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 iPad when you click on it.



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



If your iPad 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: Extract Broken iPad Messages 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: Extract Broken iPad Messages from iCloud Backup

Step 1: Choose “Recover from iCloud Backup” to extract broken iPad messages. 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.