Although there are many benefits and new features of new iOS version, it also brings some trouble of some known and unknown bugs. Thus many people would choose to downgrade iOS version. But as we known, upgrade or downgrade iOS version may have some risk which may cause you lost some data. Take above users as example, he lost some messages attachments after downgrade iOS 10.Once you suffer from this problem, how can you get back your lost messages attachments?
Recover Lost Messages Attachments after Downgrade iOS 10 via iTunes Backup
Making backup before updating or downgrading iOS version is the good habit. If you have made the backup in iTunes, you can use iTunes to help you recover lost messages attachments.
Step 1: Open iTunes on your computer. Make sure that you are using the latest iTunes version.
Step 2: Connect your iPhone to computer with the USB cable.
Step 3: Click on the Device button and tap on Summary tab. Thereafter hit on Restore Backup option.
Step 4: Pick on the file you want to recover from the list of files that shows up. Lastly, click on Restore.
Then all of the data, including these lost message attachments after downgrade iOS 10 will be back to your iPhone.
Recover Lost Message Attachments after Downgrade iOS 10 via iCloud Backup
If you have made the backup in iCloud backup, you could choose to recover lost iPhone data after downgrade iOS 10 from iCloud.
Step 1: Go to Settings> General> Erase All Content and Settings on your iPhone.
Step 2: All content and settings will be erased from your iPhone. Thereafter go Setup Assistant mode with a Hello screen.
Step 3: Swipe on the screen to begin the setup process on your iPhone then connect to a WiFi network.
Step 4: Tap on Restore from iCloud backup and sign in to iCloud using your own Apple ID.
Step 5: Pick on the iCloud backup for your iPhone data that you would want to recover and after some few minutes you will get your data back on your iPhone.
Note: Before you restore data from iTunes or iCloud backup, please confirm that it is ok to overwrite the existed data on your iPhone as the restore need to erase all of the data on your iPhone. Then you may need to know that you can not preview the data in your backup during the restore.
Recover Lost Message Attachments after Downgrade iOS 10 via iRefone
In order to recover lost data after downgrade iOS 10.2 without losing data or you did not have iTunes or iCloud backup, what you need is absolute software like iOS Data Recovery. iRefone is such the best iOS Data recovery tool. This software is well built with three recovery modes that helps to perfectly recover iPhone data after downgrading iOS 10, such as contacts, photos, text messages, call logs, whatsapp, wechat and more. iOS Data Recovery allows to restore data from iPhone whether iOS upgrade/downgrade,iOS jailbreak,iPhone get damaged,virus attacks,factory resetting,etc.
Method 1: Recover Lost Message Attachments after Downgrade iOS 10 from iTunes Backup
Step 1: Choose “Recover from iTunes Backup” as the recovery mode. There will be some backup files listed on the interface. Click on “Select” to choose the backup of iPhone you need.
Step 2: The the software will ask you choose the data you want to display an preview in the iTunes backup. Click on the icon of Message Attachments to start the scanning.
Step 3: When the scanning is finished, all of the data you choose in the iTunes backup will be displayed in the interface. Preview these attachments one by one and pick out these data you need.
Method 2: Recover Lost Message Attachments after Downgrade iOS 10 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.
Step 3: When the downloading is finished, it will ask you choose the data you want to preview, just choose Message Attachments you need to retrieve.
Step 4: Preview these message attachments in the software and choose these one you need to recover to PC.
