![]() Handy Hint 27: Is there a way to quickly delete all photos from my iPhone or iPad (iOS 6 only)?.Handy Hint 26: How can I delete photos in bulk from my iPad/iPhone using Mac !.Handy Hint 30: How do I quickly fix a mis-behaving app on my iPad or iPhone?. ![]() Handy Hint 7: Cleaning up your iPad/iPhone.Housekeeping - Data Storage, Backup, Battery, Deleting, Troubleshooting Once it has finished this scanning, I will be able to look through what it found. In this image, the app is in the process of scanning my nominated iTunes backup to identify all the Photos, Contacts, Messages, Notes, etc. This app is not available from the Mac App Store, so must be downloaded from the Aiseesoft website.īelow is an image of the Fonelab screen. The particular product that I use for cases like this is Aiseesoft Mac Fonelab. The easiest way to extract the information contained in this set of folders is to download a product that allows you to view the contents of the backup. (If you don't have much in your backup, this solution might be workable for finding a particular file.) The question is then, how can she view the contents of her backup in a way that allows her to locate her missing Notes - given that there is nothing that would indicate which of the files in the relevant backup folder contains her deleted Notes.ĭouble-clicking on a few files at random shows that these backup files are sometimes photos, sometimes text with gobbledy-gook - but finding a couple of Notes amongst thousands of files would be like finding a needle in a haystack. So hope was restored.īut how can you then find what you need in the iTunes Backup When we looked at my client's backup folders on her Macbook in the same way, we were able to see that she had a backup from just before and after the date that she thinks she deleted the Notes. This allows you to save limited iCloud space and avoid having to upload and download huge amounts of data. For example, iCloud backups don’t include a complete copy of the music and videos on your device - but iTunes backups will. With iCloud, only “the most important data” on your device will be backed up to your iCloud account. When you back up via iTunes, you’ll get a complete copy of all the data on your device so you can restore your device to the same exact state later. iTunes backups are different than iCloud backups. ( Read more here if you are interested.). The below is taken from a article that talks about i-Device backups. So what's the difference between these two types of backup. While the iCloud backup is unlikely to be of any help in retrieving the lost Notes, it is possible that the lost data is still available in the iTunes backups that are saved to her Macbook. So she came to see me to find out if there was any possibility of retrieving these lost Notes, especially given that she had regularly backed up her iPhone to iTunes on her Macbook as well as backing up to iCloud. ![]() She had visited the Genius Bar at the Apple Store, but was told that there was not really any way of recovering the information that she had lost.
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