How to Access and View iCloud Backup

Summary: Backup your data in iCloud but cannot read it. This post shows you two ways to access and view data in iCloud backup.

“My iPhone always prompted me that my iPhone has not been backed up for 2 weeks. This is the limitation the free 5 GB iCloud storage. I want to check the data in my iCloud backup so that I could decide to what to do next. Is there the way to access and view iCloud backup?”

iCloud provides the convenient way for iPhone/iPad/iPod users to backup data. Once you lost data due to some reasons, you could choose to restore from iCloud backup to get back the whole data back to your device. However, what about if you only want to access and view data in iCloud backup, how to do it? In below post, we will share you 2 easy methods to view and extract data from iCloud backup.

Method 1: Access and View Data in iCloud Backup via iCloud.com

To login icloud.com could be the most common way. On your computer, sign in the website (https://www.icloud.com/) with your apple ID user name and password. All types of backup files would be list on the website, you are able to click to access certain data.

Kindly Note: This method limits the access to wide range of data, such as whatsApp attachments, photo stream, call history, iMessage, SMS, and MMS messages. Besides, iCloud.com is only giving you access to iwork files not pdf and other documents.

Method 2: Access and View Data in iCloud Backup with iRefone

Another method to access and view data in iCloud backup is with the help third party software iRefone. This software enables you to download data from iCloud backup file selectively; sort data in iCloud backup file into categories; and even save data from iCloud backup file to computer. The most important is that this iOS data recovery tool is fully compatible with multiple iPhones, iPads and iPod touch models to meet your different needs. If you want to get your iCloud backup file from iPhone on Mac OS X, please turn to its equivalent Mac version iRefone for Mac to finish the task. Just download the software and follow the step-by-step guide below.



Step 1: Run iRefone and choose “Recover from iCloud Backup” as the recovery mode. Sign in your iCloud account with Apple ID and passcode.



Step 2: Choose the data you want to download in iCloud backup. 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 on the icon of data you want to access and view to start the scanning process of displaying these data.



Step 4: Then all of the data that you choose will be showed in the interface and you could preview them one by one in the software or choose the extract these data if you like.