How to Recover Data from Water Damaged iPhone?
If you are unable to access the data from your iPhone that is damaged due to water, you can recover it from iCloud backup, iTunes backup, and also using a third-party data recovery software. Following simple solutions for Recover Data from Water Damaged iPhone.
- First, check whether your iPhone still has water by looking at the Liquid Contact Indicator location specified for your iPhone model. It is recommended not to turn on your iPhone and connect to an electrical outlet suddenly if it gets damaged by water because it may lead to short-circuiting and severe damage.
- Remove all the water using the silica bags or rubbing it with a clean cotton cloth.
Case 1: The iPhone can be accessed after the damage but the stored data is not available.
- Unlock your iPhone and navigate to Settings.
- Select iTunes and log in using your account credentials such as Email-ID and Password.
- Note that you can recover the data only if you have synchronized your data with iTunes or iCloud backup.
- When you access your iTunes, your data will be displayed automatically in your folders.
- On both iTunes and iCloud, you cannot preview the files and select the items to be restored.
Case 2: iPhone cannot be accessed
- Download a secure third-party iPhone data recovery software.
- Make sure to download the data recovery software compatible with your OS version.
- Connect your iPhone to the PC with the help of a standard USB cable. Make sure the LED on the iPhone is lit.
- Launch the data recovery software for the iOS device on your PC.
- The data recovery software will detect your iPhone automatically.
- Verify your iPhone model with the displayed name on the data recovery software screen.
- Click on the Recover or Scan button to start scanning the device.
- Wait until the scanning process completes. The time taken for the scanning process depends upon the size of the data stored on your iPhone.
- Navigate to the left-side panel and select the Recover from iOS Device option.
- Choose the folders you wish to preview and select the files to be recovered.
- You can recover Photos, Videos, Messages, Contacts, Call history, Emails, Whatsapp data, and Documents from your iPhone.
- After selecting all your desired files, click the Recover button, and enter the storage location to save the data on your PC.
- You can also recover the data from iTunes using a data recovery software.
- For recovering the data from iCloud using the data recovery software, you must download the iCloud and log in using your credentials.
- The features like Restoring to Device and Restoring to Computer are only available for iCloud and iTunes in data recovery software.
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