"I want to restore a picture that I deleted from my camera roll on my iPhone. I have iCloud backup enabled, with the option for camera roll turned on, so therefore the picture I deleted should have a backup in iCloud. However, I don't see any way to browse past backups from either my iPhone or iCloud.com. Is the backup simply used for restoring entire devices? Any way I can just pull a single file out of it?"
For users who have an iCloud account and backed up your data before, you can restore your lost data from iCloud backup files. The biggest problem here is that the backup files are intended to be restored as a whole to replace the content on the device at the time of the restore. Pulling individual items such as photos, videos, notes, etc will be impossible.
To fix this issue, a specialist iCloud backup file recovery is recommended to you. The biggest merits of this iOS Data Recovery(Top 5 iPhone Data Recovery for Windows 10) application is its beneficial capability to selectively recover what your desired file types and file formats from iCloud backup file. Furthermore, it has wide compatibility for wide range of file formats and iOS device model types as below:
Apart from recovering lost files from iCloud backup file, the program is also skilled in retrieving deleted or lost files from iTunes backup file or directly from iPhone/iPad/iPod, etc.
For Mac users, you can opt to download iOS Data Recovery for Mac to retrieve iPhone/iPad/iPod lost or deleted files on Mac OS X.
How to Restore Deleted or Lost text or media data from iCloud backup file?
Step 1. Choose Recovery Mode
After running iOS Data Recovery, choose the recovery mode of "Recover from iCloud Backup Files" on the top. Then you'll see the window below. Enter your iCloud account and password to login. The program takes your privacy seriously. We never keep a record of any your Apple account info or content at any time during your sessions.
Step 2. Download iCloud Backup File
When you logged into iCloud, the program can find all iCloud backup files in your account. Choose the one where you're going to recover data and click on the "Download" button.
And then in the pop-up, you can choose the type of files you would like to download. This will reduce the time of downloading the iCloud backup file. After that, you can scan the iCloud content now. Click on the "Scan" button to begin. It will take you some time. Just wait for a moment.
Step 3. Preview and Recover Data from iCloud Backup File
The scan will be complete in a few minutes. Once it stops, you can preview almost all data in your iCloud backup file, like contacts, messages, photos, and more. Check them one by one and tick the item you want. Then click on the "Recover button" to save them on your computer with one click.
Now contacts, messages and notes can be directly recovered to your iOS device if your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch is connected with your computer with a USB cable during the recovery process.
Tips:
Restoring your iDevice from an iCloud backup is not recommended, because your iPhone or iPad will restore to the moment it was backed up last. You will LOSE all the data created between the moment your iPhone was last updated to iCloud and the moment you will restore your iDevice. This could result in losing other valuable data, which can never be restored or recovered.
