![]() The chances of your lost data not being overwritten through normal operation tend to become zero quite quickly. Realistically, however, the chances of actually finding your deleted data was fairly slim, especially if your device is more or less full of data (music, videos, photos). ![]() Recent Advancements Make Recovery Possibleĭoes that mean no data recovery is possible on iPhones? In the past the only way to attempt a recovery was by jailbreaking the phone, which would allow us to install certain software that in turn gives us direct access to the flash memory, and thus potentially recover the data you are after. So even through normal use, for example if you browse the web on your iPhone, the temporary files that get generated could already irrevocably overwrite the data you would like to get back. What happens when you delete information on your iPhone (similar to a regular hard drive) is that the entry in the file system is removed and the part on the flash memory that holds the actual information is added to the pool of free space, ready to be overwritten again by any kind of data. With the upcoming change to the Apple File System, more recovery options can become available but, this early in development, it’s hard to tell. In addition, any app on your iPhone is “sandboxed” and doesn’t have full access to the file system, let alone direct flash memory access, and thus cannot check for your deleted data, which is why there cannot be a tool like Data Rescue (which we offer for the Mac or PC) on the iPhone. If you lost data on an iPhone, can those pictures be recovered? The answer is a clear “it depends”.Īs the iPhone (and, consequently, the iPod Touch and now also the iPad) are part of Apple’s closed ecosystem, you as the user don’t have full access to the file system and -more importantly- cannot read or write directly to the flash memory where all of your information is stored. Data Recovery On An iPhone - Is It Possible? February 17, 2017
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