What is iPhone recovery mode?
When using an iPhone you may encounter situations that may require you to put your iPhone to a recovery mode, which sets the iPhone back to factory settings. Situations that promote iPhone to go into recover mode are including: iOS updates, problems with the software, water damage, jailbreak, fresh up your iPhone.
When your iPhone gets stuck in recovery mode, the most common way to get it out of recovery mode is to do a restore or firmware update. After those operations, you may find that the data stored on your iPhone are lost. To get them back, you can restore them from iTunes backup file, however, you may find the backup files from your iPhone to iTunes is already out of date, it also means that the backup files do not contain the files that you desire to backup. When in that condition, it is idea for you to use a iPhone Data Recovery software such as iOS Data Recovery software which enables you to directly recover deleted or lost data directly from iPhone from recovery mode.
Besides recovering directly from iPhone, the program also gives you the opportunity to recover lost data from iTunes backup file or iCloud backup file, so that you can recover as many files as possible from iPhone recovery mode. The program has full support for all iPhone models including iPhone 6 Plus/6/5S/5C/5/4S/4/3GS and numerous text data and media data.
The below guide will mainly show you how to recover lost data directly from iPhone from recover mode
Step 1: Run the program, connect your iOS device to the computer.
Install and run iOS Data Recovery on your computer, then connect your device to the computer through its equipped USB cable. The program will detect your iOS devices automatically and shows you the window for "Recover from iOS Device".
Tips: Before run the application, make sure you have downloaded the latest version of iTunes. To avoid automatically syncing, don't launch iTunes when running iOS Data Recovery. Here, you are advised to disable the automatically syncing in iTunes beforehand: Launch iTunes > Preference > Device, check "Prevent iPods, iPhones and iPads from syncing automatically".
If your iOS device is iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad 1 or iPod touch 4, you can switch to the "Advanced Mode" through the button at the lower-right corner. After then follow the instruction in the window to enter device scanning mode: Hold your device, then click the Start button > Hold the Power and Home buttons at the same time for exactly 10 seconds > Release the Power button but keep the Home button pressed.
Step 2. Scan Your Device for Lost Data on it.
Tap the "Start Scan" button, the program will start to scan your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch to find for deleted or lost data. It will take a few minutes for the scanning process to be completed. During the scanning process, if you find the data you are looking for to recover, you can click the "Pause" button to stop the process.
Step 3. Preview the Scanned Data
When the scanning process is over, a scan result with both lost and existing Data on your device will be displayed in categories. To filter out the deleted data on your iOS device, you can turn on the option "Only display the deleted items". You can preview the found data on its file type by clicking the file type in the left side. You can also search for a specific file by typing a keyword in the search box on the top right of the window.
Step 4: Recover Data from your iPhone/iPad/iPod touch.
When you find the data you need, select them by putting a check mark in front of the box. After that, hit the "Recover" button at the bottom right of the window. And the recovered data will be saved to your computer by default. As for text messages, iMessage, contacts, or notes, when you click Recover, a window will pop-up to ask you to "Recover to Computer" or "Recover to Device". If you want to put these messages back to your iOS device, click "Recover to Device".
