How to Retrieve Photos from iCloud Backup

You may lose or delete some important iPhone/iPad photos because of some reasons, which may be iOS upgrade issue, jailbreak fail, factory reset, device broken/stolen, or just mistakenly deleting. No matter what the reason, fortunately, if you have backed up your device to iCloud frequently, you always have the chance to recover your lost photos.

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Normally, to get back deleted photos from iCloud backup, you have to restore your iPhone or iPad/iPod touch with the whole backup, and all the data on your device will be replaced by the contents in the iCloud backup, which most of us don’t want. So, in this post we offer you two new ways to get photos from iCloud without restoring and erasing. In addition, you can selectively download photos from iCloud to your computer, or your new iPhone X/8 (Plus)/iPad/iPod touch.

Tools You Could Have a Try to Get Photos from iCloud to iPhone X/8/7/6S/6

1. View iCloud photos and extract them to Mac/PC - PhoneRescue

PhoneRescue is an award-winning data recovery software for both Android and iOS devices. To selectively recover photos from iCloud backup instead of getting back all the contents in the backup, you can definitely rely on PhoneRescue - iOS data recovery.

Related Tutorial: How to Retrieve Photos from iCloud Backup to Mac/PC

2. Retrieve photos from iCloud to iPhone X/8/7/6S/6 – AnyTrans

AnyTrans is an all-in-one iOS content manager. It provides free trial version that you can use to transfer iCloud photos to computer or iOS devices. However, you couldn’t use it to preview iCloud photos until downloading them to your computer.

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How to Retrieve Photos from iCloud Backup with PhoneRescue

Please ensure that you have backed up your iPhone to iCloud by checking on your iPhone with steps below: Settings > iCloud > Storage & Backup > Manage Storage > Device Name > Check the date of the backup created.

With this data recovery, you just need 3 steps to recover photos from iCloud backup to iPhone.

Step 1. Download PhoneRescue – iOS data recovery to your computer, install and run it.

Step 2. Choose "Recover from iCloud" and click "Next" to login iCloud account.

Step 3. Select one iCloud backup > Click "Download". Then it would pop up a screen to enable you choose the exact data you would like to recover. So check Photos option and click OK button to download the backup. It would take you some times to download the whole backup on iCloud server. After downloading, select one iCloud backup and click "Next" to analyze/access content in it.

Step 4. Select Photos on the left side to preview all Camera Roll photos in iCloud backup. Now you can select your wanted pictures and click "To Computer" to export them to computer, and then download the iCloud photos to iPhone.

After recovering lost or deleted iPhone/iPad photos by extracting them from iCloud to computer, you can use iTunes or iPhone data transfer tool to get them to your iOS device.

The Bottom Line

If there are some important photos in iTunes backup instead of iCloud, you can also use PhoneRescue – iOS data recovery and AnyTrans to extract them. And, actually you can extract more than photos from iTunes or iCloud. For example, PhoneRescue – iOS data recovery enables you get 15+ types of files from iTunes or iCloud backup. So why not download PhoneRescue – iOS data recovery now?