How to Recover Photos from Broken/Dead iPhone

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By Selena KomezUpdated on October 18, 2017

Summary: This post is going to show you how to recover photos from broken/dead iPhone with two best ways. One is restoring from broken device directly without backup, another is restoring from iTunes backup.

It is a common case that your iPhone get broken/damaged by accident. However the worse is that you have no idea to restore the data from the broken iPhone, especially the photos. It is a common case that your iPhone get broken/damaged by accident. However the worse is that you have no idea to restore the data from the broken iPhone, especially the photos. There are a lot of similar questions that in the forum that haven’t been fix, like “How to restore photos from broken iPhone?”, “How to recover photos on iPhone that won’t turn on”, “How to recover photos from iPhone with broken screen”, and others. This tutorial is going to show you two solutions to recover photos from broken/dead iPhone with a few clicks.

Restore Photos from Broken/Dead iPhone

As a matter of fact, iPhone Data Recovery is designed to recover data from iPhone for any data loss cases, including the iPhone get broken or iPhone is dead. The recoverable kinds of data including photos, contacts, text messages, videos, notes, call logs, calendars, WhatsApp messages, apps data, etc,. It enables to extract photos from broken/dead iPhone for three modes: directly recover from device without backup, recover from iTunes backup, recover from iCloud backup. Almost all cases of broken/dead iPhone are supported by program, such as, iPhone that won’t turn on, forget phone screen password, iPhone with broken screen, can not entering password on a broken iPhone screen, iPhone with black screen, iPhone with blank screen, iPhone with locked screen, iPhone stuck in Apple logo, etc,. All iPhone models are compatible with the iPhone Data Recovery, for example, iPhone X, iPhone 8, iPhone 7, iPhone 6S/6, iPhone 5S/5C/5.

Part 1: Recover Photos from Broken/Dead iPhone Directly

Step 1.Run Program and Select Recovery Mode
Firstly, please run the iPhone Data Recovery on the computer and connect the broken/dead iPhone to the computer. Select “Recover from iOS Device” recovery mode and continue by clicking the “Start” button.

run iphone data recovery

Step 2.Select Photo File to Scan by Program
After that, select the “Photo” file you need to retrieve. Then clicking “Next” button to go on. And the program will begin to scan the photos from iPhone.

select photo to scan

Now the program is scanning data on the broken/dead iPhone.

scan iPhone data

Step 3.Preview and Restore Photos from Broken/Dead iPhone
When the scanning is finished, the recoverable files will be shown in the interface. You are allowed to previewed and directly recover the photos from the broken/dead iPhone. Select the photos you want and click “Recover” to save the selected photos on the computer.

recover photos from broken iPhone

Part 2: Recover Photos from Broken/Dead iPhone with iTunes Backup File

Step 1.Run Program and Select iTunes Recovery Mode
Firstly, please run the iPhone Data Recovery on the computer. Then select “Recover from iTunes Backup” mode and click “Start” to begin the data recovery process.

select iTunes recovery mode

Step 2.Select Photo File to Scan by Program
The program supports to recover all kinds of data from the iTunes backup files, select the “Photo” item you need and click “Next” to continue.

select photo to scan

Step 3.Download and Scan the iTunes Backup
In the next window all the iTunes backup files available on that computer will be listed. Select the one that contains the photos you want and click “Scan” to go on.

scan iTunes backup file

Step 4.Preview and Extract Photos from iTunes Backup
Select the data under the “Photo” file you need to restore. Simply click “Recover” button to retract the selected data on the computer.

extract photo from iTunes backup