How to Extract SMS from iPhone Backup with iPhone SMS Extractor

“I lost my iPhone, so all the data including the important messages were lost. But I had an iTunes backup. I thought of using iTunes to restore, but it always asked me to connect my device. I just want to get access to the messages on my lost iPhone. How can I restore iPhone messages?”

If you unfortunately lost your iPhone, there’s still a chance for you to retrieve messages on your lost iPhone as long as you have ever synced or backed up your iPhone using iTunes. Since iTunes will automatically backup your iPhone every time you sync data with it, the messages, photos, videos, contacts, etc. will also be backed up to local computer. But the iTunes backup is a SQLite database file that can't be accessed or previewed.  That is to say, you can't directly take any single data out of iTunes backup. To restore iPhone messages in iTunes backup, you'll have to use third-party software, like an iPhone backup extractor. With the powerful iPhone SMS extractor, you can easily find back messages on lost iPhone/iPad/iPod touch by extracting previous iPhone backup.

The iPhone backup extractor can not only extract SMS from iPhone backup, but also can help iPhone users retrieve other lost files, such as photos, videos, notes, call histories, calendars, etc. If you are looking for information on how to extract text messages from iPhone backup, you can refer to this tutorial to help you extract iPhone text messages easily. You can free download the software to have a try, it won’t let you down.  

Guide on how to extract SMS from iPhone backup

Step 1 Enter “Recover from iTunes Backup” mode

After running the iPhone SMS extractor, click “Recover from iTunes Backup” mode to scan the iTunes backup stored on your computer.

Step 2 Select iPhone backup for scan

Then all the iTunes backup of different iDevices will be listed, select the backup of your iPhone and click “Scan” to scan the files in the iPhone backup.

 

Step 3 Preview iPhone messages in backup

After quick scan, all of your backup files of different iDevices will be displayed in 12 types on the left of the software interface. If you want to extract messages from iPhone backup, you can click the "Messages" category to preview detailed items of the messages before you recover them.

Step 4 Recover and save your iPhone messages

Then click "Recover" button to continue. In the pop-up “Recover Files” window, choose a computer folder to save the messages to be output, and click “Go” to start to extract messages from iPhone backup.

How to Extract Contacts from iPhone Backup with iPhone Contact Extractor

“My iPhone 4 was stolen, since I couldn't save any contact info on my SIM card with my iPhone, I have no numbers left! Now I use an old iPhone 3G that can't run iOS 5, so recovery from iCloud is impossible. I'm trying to recover my contacts from a previous iTunes backup, so I need to know how I can reach those backup files without plugging in my phone. Any help at all would be appreciated.”

Contacts on the Address Book are important to everyone, but the contacts loss problem may happen to everybody inadvertently. How do you solve the contacts loss issue when you come across the similar situation? If you have ever synced your iPhone with iTunes and know exactly which app your contacts is synced with, you can go to the apps to check if they stay there. Whereas, it’s an add-on nuisance to find them back through these apps if you have no idea exactly where they have gone. Actually, there’s an easy and direct way open to you to recover contacts from iPhone backup.

If you hold an iTunes backup of your iPhone, it’s no longer hard to recover your iPhone contacts without iPhone, you can extract contacts from iPhone backup. At this time, an iPhone backup extractor will be useful to help you get contacts from iPhone backup quickly and easily. Below are guides in detail to show you how to extract and recover contacts from iPhone backup with the iPhone backup extractor.

How to Extract Contacts from iPhone Backup

Step 1 Select "Recover from iTunes backup" mode

After downloading and installing the iPhone backup extractor on your computer, tap on "Recover from iTunes backup" mode from the provided two recovery modes.

Step 2 Select the backup of your iPhone

In this step, you need to choose the backup of your iPhone from the iTunes backup list the program has scanned. After selecting the backup, click "Scan" button to scan the files in your iPhone backup.

Step 3 Preview & extract contacts from iPhone backup

After a quick scanning, all the files in your previous iPhone backup will be shown before you. You can click the Contacts category to preview the thumbnail of every single contact.

After preview, click "Recover" button to start to get contacts from iPhone backup. Don't forget to specify a saving location for the contacts to be exported on the pop-up window after clicking "Recover". On the same window, you can choose to tick the "Automatically open the output folder after recovery" option to locate your recovered files the first time around.

After several minutes, all the contacts you select will be exported to the designated location on your computer in CSV, VCF and HTML formats.

Note: If you want to import contacts from computer to iPhone, you can refer to this guide: 5 Free Methods to Import CSV/VCF Contacts to iPhone 5/4S/4/3GS.

How to Extract Photos from iPhone Backup with iPhone Photo Extractor

"I installed new iOS 6 software but lost a bunch of pics. I had been looking around the web for days to find a solution to extract my photos from the iTunes backup I did before. Tried iTunes for several times,but always get the info "iTunes was unable to load data class information from Sync Services.” Then I tried data recovery software, but I was only able to restore small partial restore [only 28 out of my 132 photos] by using most of the programs. Is there anybody know any good tools to help me extract photos from iPhone backup? PS: Any extractors or data recovery utilities are also OK. Please tell me if you have any clue about it. Thanks very much!" - Peter

If you have an iPhone backup stored on your computer, the first idea that comes to your head must be restoring your iPhone from iTunes backup. However, it’s usually not easy to find out the iTunes backup files because the files hide deeply on your computer. Even if you have finally found the iPhone backup location on your computer, you’ll be frustrated to find that the iTunes backup is a SQlitedb file that can neither be recognized nor previewed. The only way to restore iPhone from backup seems to be using iTunes. But you may also note that all the original data on your iPhone will be deleted and replaced by the iTunes backup files in the restoring process, which is also very irritating.

Actually, it’s very easy to extract pictures from iPhone backup without iTunes if you have the multi-functional iPhone Backup Extractor, which can scan 12 kinds of files in your previous iTunes backup and extract single files from the total backup to PC. Above all, you can have a good preview of all the files in thumbnails before exporting them to the computer.

Free download the iPhone Backup Extractor, and follow the guides below to start to extract and recover photos from iPhone backup.

How to extract photos from iPhone backup

Step 1 Enter "Recover from iTunes backup" mode

Run the iPhone backup extractor on your PC, then tap on “Recover from iTunes backup” mode.

Step 2 Select your iPhone backup to scan

After a short scanning, you can see all the backups you have ever made through iTunes on your PC, choose the backup of your iPhone and click “Scan” button on the right corner of the interface.

Step 3 Preview & extract photos from iPhone backup

After a few seconds, you can preview all the files found in the scanning of your iPhone backup. By clicking the “Camera Roll” category, you can see all the photos and videos you have backed up with iTunes. You can also tick “Photo Stream” or “Photo Library” to preview and extract your photos.

After preview, tick the categories or single files and tap on “Recover” button to start to extract pictures from iPhone backup.