Best data recovery apps for iPhone

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iPhone data recovery apps are the kind of tool you hope you never need, but you’ll certainly be glad to find one when it’s needed.

iPhones have become more and more advanced, with new cameras and more storage meaning they’re chock full of precious memories and moments. They’ve also become more durable, with water and dust resistance and toughened, ‘Ceramic Shield’ glass, but they’re not indestructible.

If you’ve ever dropped your phone, or plugged it in for a simple restore process and found that your backups are corrupted, you’ll want to reach for the best iPhone data recovery software.

We’ve rounded up our picks of the best options available right now, but as with all things data recovery, there’s never any absolute certainty that your files can be restored. With that in mind, we’d recommend ensuring you have an iCloud backup where possible, and maybe one on your computer, too. See: How to back up your iPhone .

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What to look for when choosing a data recovery app

As you’ll see, data recovery software tends to be expensive: it can afford to be because the people who need it are often desperate. However, before you spend lots of money have a look to see if a free trial is available, at least then you can establish if anything can be recovered before spending your money. Just note that the free trial is likely to be missing key features and very unlikely to recover anything for you without demanding payment.

Our sense is also, unfortunately, that this is a market with a high percentage of scams. The reason we’ve only included six products below is that all the others we tried seemed, well, a bit dodgy. And many of the dodgier denizens of this market are fond of inserting themselves … Read More