How to Recover Photos from Dead iPhone

Question: I have an iPhone 4 that is very much broken. I tried to get my computer to recognize it but I failed. It can't turn on at all. So I cannot find a way to get the pictures off of it. I'm sure if I fix it I could get it to work, but I've already bought an iPhone 5 so I really hate to have to do that. Is there anyway to get these pictures off without putting more money into the phone. Thanks!

-- A user from IFIXIT

Analysis: Most iPhone users may meet the above situation: due to some unexpected reasons iPhone is totally dead and can't be turned on or be recognized by computer. At that time, we may want to recover the photos from the dead iPhone for they are really important for us.

If you have created backups of the dead iPhone via iTunes or iCloud, you can restore the backup to a new iPhone to bring back the photos. However, this will replace the data and settings with the files in the dead iPhone, and you cannot ONLY recover photos from iTunes or iCloud backup.

Solution: With the help of an iPhone backup extractor like PhoneRescue, you can selectively recover photos from dead iPhone as long as you ever made backups with iTunes.

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A Brief Introduce of PhoneRescue

• PhoneRescue focuses on analyzing and recovering 28 types of iOS content, like photos, messages, notes, reminder, music and so on.
• PhoneRescue is capable of extracting data in iTunes backup including photos, messages, notes, contacts, call history and more, even if your iPhone is dead.
• PhoneRescue supports retrieving deleted photos from iPhone directly without any backup.
• PhoneRescue offers you a chance to preview all your photos before recovering, in this way you can choose those photos you want to recover.

PhoneRescue supports all the modes of iPhone, iPad, iPod, iPod touch. So firstly download and install PhoneRescue on your computer.

Part 1. How to Recover Photos from Dead iPhone via iTunes backup

Step 1. Open PhoneRescue on your computer and then on the homepage, choose the second mode – Select an iTunes Backup.

Step 2. Choose one iTunes backup you want to recover photos on it and then click "Next" to next page.

Step 3. Choose Camera Roll and Photo Stream to start scanning.

Step 4. Select the photos you want to recover, and click Recover to save the photos from the dead iPhone to computer.

Note: If your iPhone can be recognized by the computer and you have no backup available, you can use PhoneRescue to recover the deleted photos from iPhone directly by choosing the “Recover from an iOS Device” mode.

The Bottom Line

With the help of PhoneRescue, you can easily recover deleted or lost iOS data. No matter your iDevice is in a good condition or your iDevice is dead, broken, or stolen, it can help to recover your data with three modes – Recover from Device, Recover from iTunes or iCloud Backup. Download PhoneRescue for a try. For the tutorial, if you have any question or suggestion, don't be hesitate to contact us or comments. We will replay to you within 24 hours.