Three Methods to Recover Lost iPad Data

Summary: There are many situations in daily life may cause you lost some data on your iPad, like accidentally deleted, update failure, jailbreaking failure, etc. Below article will teach you the ways to recover lost iPad data.

“I lent my iPad to my friend, but he accidentally deleted some data on my iPad. Some of the data are useful for me. How do I recover deleted file from the iPod?”

“My iPad was lost and I lost the data on it as well. It seems that there is the backup file of iPad in iTunes, is it possible that I could retrieve these data in iTunes?”

iPad is used for contacting friends and family, entertainment, etc. Many accidents in daily life may cause you lost data in iPad like accidentally deleted, fail iOS upgrade, iPod stolen or lost, ect. In this article we will show you how to recover lost data on iPad.

Trying to recover lost or deleted data from iPad, we should be thankful for the advances in these third-party iPad data recovery software. When it comes to iPad data recovery software, iRefone would come to the first. As the professional iOS data recovery software, it could supports to recover nearly almost all of the data on your iPad, like messages, contacts, notes, photos, reminders, calendars and more. Besides, this tool provides three ways for you to recover data from iPad. Follow below steps to get to know the details.



Part 1: Recover Lost Data on iPad Directly

Step 1. Connect your iPad with computer, then the software will detect the device automatically. Click “Start” to go on.



Step 2. Then you will enter the interface to ask you choose the data you need to scan. Choose the icon of the data you need and start the process of analysis and scanning your iPad.



Step 3. When the scanning is finished, all of the data on your iPad will be displayed in the software, including these lost one. You could preview them one by one and choose what you need to recover them.



Part 2: Recover Lost iPad Data from iTunes Backup

Step 1. Choose “Recover from iTunes Backup” as the recovery mode. There will be some backup files listed on the interface. Choose the backup of iPad you need, click on “Select” or double click it.



Step 2: Choose the data you want to preview in iTunes backup, click on the icon and the software will automatically scan and analysis your file.



Step 3: After preview data in iTunes backup, you could select the data you need and choose recover to PC as you like.



Part 3: Recover Lost iPad Data from iCloud Backup

Step 1. Choose “Recover from iCloud Backup” as recovery mode. Then you will see the interface below. Log in to iCloud account with Apple ID and password.



Step 2. After log into iCloud account, the program can find all iCloud backup backup files in your iCloud account. Choose one iCloud backup you need to recover data and click “Download” to start the download of your iCloud backup.



Note: Once you click “Download” button, it will not start downloading directly. It will ask you select the data you want to download from the backup. This will need less time than downloading the whole data. Just choose the contcats you need.

Step 3. When the downloading is finished, it will ask you choose the data you want to preview as other two recovery mode. So, just choose the data you need and click on the icon.



Step 4. Preview these data in the software can choose these one you need to recover to PC or device.