Don't panic if lost pictures on iPhone after update to iOS 8. Actually, contacts as well as other files like photos, text messages, notes were lost on iOS 8 update is normal, and if you want to rescue these files, there are three ways for you to restore lost data after iOS 8 update.

1. How to Retrieve iPhone Photos Without Backup

It is important to backup iPhone photos before iOS 8 update. If you forgot to backup, you have to use an advance data recovery tool for iPhone. Download and install iPhone data recovery software and run it, then follow these:

1: Launch the program and then connect your iPhone to the computer.

First launch the program and then connect your iPhone to computer. Hit on the “Start Scan” button so that scanning process begins after connecting to the computer.

2: Start to preview and restore data from iPhone

When the scanning finishes, you will find all the data will be listed in order. Click the list to preview the detailed of your data. After that just select those data which you want to recover and hit on “recover” button to save them on your computer.

2. How to recover iPhone photos after iOS 8 upgrade from iTunes Backup

Follow these 4 simple steps:
1. Start iTunes, and go to “Edit > Preferences > Devices”, then check “Prevent iPods, iPhones and iPads from syncing automatically”.
2. Plug iPhone into computer via the USB cable, and iTunes will launch automatically. If not, you should manually start it.
3. Click “File > Device > Restore from Backup” at the upper left corner. Then choose the iPhone backup in the pop-up window.
4. iTunes will restore your iPhone with the backup, and after that, the contents in the backup will be completely restored to your iPhone.

3. how to recover photos iOS 8 via iCloud Backup

Before using iCloud to recover your notes, you need to make sure that you have already backed up the notes to the cloud. You can find the option of iCloud in the Settings of iPhone. On the windows of iCloud, you need to check the notes option. If you never used iCloud before, you need to check the Backup Now feature and you will find the option in Storage & Backup. With those works done, when you need to restore your notes you can find it in your iCloud.

You may also have encountered such situations:

Situation 1: contacts lost after iOS 8 upgrade
Situation 2: iPhone notes disappear iOS 8
Situation 3: iOS 8 deleted text messages on iPhone

When I have any difficulty that We wanna know the answers. Next Google will be my finest assistan to help my fingure all of them out! To begin with, I tried to search “Lost contacts on iPhone” on Yahoo to try to find more information to help. Some folks said there are a few iPhone data recovery software available on the net, which can recover misplaced, deleted photographs, messages, contacts, call history and notes, and calendar from iPhone with ease! Tenorshare iTunes Data Recovery surprised me! It restored all my personal photos in mere minutes and a few mouse clicks! That is amazing! Follow the below operation to fix lost contacts on iPhone 4S problem.

The first and most important thing is to make sure that your iPhone doesn’t automatically sync with iTunes when connected. Below are the steps how to recover contacts on iPhone 4S.

Step1. After downloading and installing the iPhone contact recovery software, launch it on your Mac, and you’ll get the backup file for your iPhone. Choose the iPhone device where you’re going to retrieve your lost iPhone contacts, and click “Start Scan” to look for the content.

Step2. You’re at the last step now. Choose “Contacts” among the items on the left after the scanning, and you can get all your deleted, lost or erased contacts on your iPhone. Click “Recover” to save them all on your Mac OS X baesd on computer with one click. You are even able to export my photos to my iPhone again. What’s more, you can preview and recover photos, videos, contacts, SMS, notes and calendar with this iPhone data recovery software as you like.

Note: Tenorshare iTunes Data Recovery also be able to direclty scan and recover lost iPhone contacts, photos, notes, text messages, videos, calendar and call history from iPhone 5/4/3GS.

No one may be pleasant to lose contacts on their phone. If you have suffered such a unfortune thing, hope the above guide may help you recover iphone lost contacts.

Just about everyone has deleted a text message or two by accident, but those messages aren't necessarily gone for good if you know what to do. First, try restoring the missing texts with a recent backup copy through iTunes or iCloud; failing that, there's a good chance you can find the texts deep within your phone's internal memory by scanning it with third-party software. In this post, take iPhone 4 for example, let's learn how to retrieve deleted texts on iPhone 4.

Important Note:
Syncing your iPhone to iTunes or iCloud maintains a backup copy of all your phone's personal files. If you've synced before you deleted your text messages, the missing messages are still in your most recent backup. However, if you sync after deleting those messages, the chances of recovering them drops. Do not sync your iPhone once you discover your messages are missing.

Method 1: how to recover deleted text messages on iPhone 4 from iTunes Backup

Recovering deleted text messages from a backup via iTunes requires you to connect through your computer. While in iTunes, open the "Summary" tab for your iPhone. Select "Restore Backup" and iTunes will reinstall the most recent backup on your iPhone. This restores any data that was deleted after this backup was made, such as text messages, photos and apps.

Method 2: How to Restore SMS messages from iCloud Backup

Your iPhone automatically creates a backup of your data to the iCloud daily when you are within Wi-Fi range, lock your screen and connect to a power source. To restore from an iCloud backup, you'll need to wipe your iPhone first to erase all the current data; tap "Settings | General | Reset | Erase All Content and Settings." Once your data is erased, you're prompted to set your phone up as new or restore from a backup. Select "Restore from iCloud Backup" and enter your Apple ID password.

Method 3: how to restore deleted text messages on iPhone 4 with iPhone Data Recovery

If it's been a while since your last backup, or you've backed up since deleting your text messages, all is not lost. Third-party data recovery software can scan your iPhone for deleted data information and enable you to restore it. This isn't a guaranteed save, as sometimes the data is overwritten, but you have nothing to lose by trying it.

Method 1: Learn how to restore lost contacts on iPhone without backup

You need an iPhone data recovery program when lost iPhone contacts iOS 7. If you do not have iCloud or iTunes backup, try the way below:
Step 1: Download and install program on your computer. Launch it and connect your iPhone with computer.

Step 2: Select “Recover Data from iOS Device” as recovery mode.
For iPhone 5S/5C/5/4S users, click the "Start Scan" button to scan your iPhone.
For iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS users need to enter DFU mode to scan for lost files:
1) Hold your device and click the "Start" button.
2) Pressing the "Power" and "Home" buttons at the same time for exact 10 seconds.
3) Then release the "Power" button, but keep holding "Home" for another 15 seconds until you get the message of successfully entering.
Whatever the device you use, the program will automatically begin scanning your iPhone for lost contacts after you doing the steps accordingly.

Step 3: When the scan is over, you can preview all found data before recovery. Choose "Contacts" to preview, mark it and click "Recover" to save contacts on your computer.

Method 2: Learn how to fix iOS 7 lost contacts issue from iCloud backup

Though Contacts syncs through iCloud, Mac users can use the inevitable syncing latency to their advantage and often retrieve deleted contacts by going to the Contacts (or Address Book) application. This also works with the iCloud web interface, and is best with recently deleted contacts, or with devices that have been offline from iCloud:

# Disable the internet connection by pulling down the Wi-Fi menu and turn Wi-Fi OFF
# Launch Contacts (or Address Book) in OS X, or Contacts from iCloud.com on the web, and use the search feature to locate the contact in question
# Open the contact and pull down the File menu, choosing “Export” then “Export Vcard” to save the contact(s) as a .vcf file – this will serve as a backup in case the next step does not work
# With the contact still selected, click the sharing button arrow and choose “Email Card” to launch the default mail app with the contacts vcard attached
# Turn Wi-Fi back on to send the email containing the contact card
# Go to the iPhone, open the email and choose the attachment, selecting to “Create New Contact”

Even iPhone lost all contacts, you can easily to get it back!

The reason to turn off wi-fi quickly is to prevent Contacts from syncing changes with the iPhone. If done fast enough, you will often find the contact deleted from your iPhone is still sitting in iCloud.com or Contacts app in OS X.

Actually, there are two ways to recover iPhone photos. One is recovering iPhone photos from backup, the other is recovering iPhone photos without backup. Then why I emphasize the first method? One, backup is the only way to recover photos if you have lost iPhone, had iPhone stolen or iPhone damaged. Two, it is must easier and faster than recover iPhone photos without backup.

Retrieving iPhone photos from backup has been very simple since Tenorshare launch iTunes Data Recovery program, an iPhone photo recovery software. The first time you sync iPhone with iTunes, it will generate a backup file which contain the photos, text, contacts and more files on your iPhone. And the backup file update automatically every time you sync iPhone with iTunes. However, we can’t view or write such backup files directly. With iTunes Data Recovery tool, you can extract the backup files on the computer easily. First of all, free download iTunes Data Recovery.

3 simple steps to recover deleted photos from iPhone with iTunes backup

Step 1. Install iTunes Data Recovery on your computer after restore. Launch this program and you can get the interface below:

You can see that this program list all the backup files on your computer. Just highlight the backup file need to extract photos, click “Start Scan”.
Step 2. The scanning time depends on how much files on your backup. The larger, the longer the time. Here you maybe have a question, I just lost 10 photos, why the scanning time is so long? Well, owing to not only the photos will be scanned, but also other files will be scanned at the same time.
After the scanning completed, you can preview all the photos before recovery.

Step 3.Select the photos need to recover one by one, or check “All” to choose all the pictures, click “Recover”. Then you will be asked to choose a path on your computer to save the recovered photos. Done!

Finally, please let me know in the comments if you have other tips for making the case for how to recover deleted pictures from iPhone or if you've employed other tactics that I haven't mentioned.

No exact solution can be found in the internet but what you can do is get your deleted WhatsApp messages back. Therefore, in this article we will focus on how to retrieve deleted WhatsApp messages on iPhone.

If you have backed up WhatsApp messages on iTunes, follow 5 steps below to retrieve WhatsApp messages from iPhone backup:

1. Open iTunes app on your system.
2. Now plug the iPhone to the computer like you do when you sync it usually.
3. Find your iPhone by looking in the Devices frame that is on the left in the iTunes window.
4. If you have a Mac, control click on iPhone symbol (right click for Windows). Select the option ‘Restore from Backup’. Now pick any one backup version from the given drop down list and click ‘Restore’. Any contact that was lost since the last sync will be restored.
5. Safely eject the iPhone and check the contact list. You’ll see the contact successfully restored
Done!

Don’t lose hope if you haven’t backed up WhatsApp messages with iTunes, iPhone Data Recovery program can fix this problem.

Free download iPhone Data Recovery on your PC and install it. The operation is very easy too.
Step 1: When run the program, stay in “Recover Data from iOS Device” recovery mode. Then connect your iPhone to the computer. Click “Start Scan” to scan for lost files.
Step 2: iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 users need to enter DFU mode to scan lost files:
Here is how to do:
* Hold your iPhone and click on the Start button.
* Pressing Power and Home buttons simultaneously for 15 seconds.
* After 15 seconds, release the Power button, but keep holding Home for another 15 seconds.
Step 3: After the scan, you can preview the found WhatsApp messages one by one. Mark those you want and click Recover, you can save them on your computer with one click.

That's all for how to retrieve WhatsApp messages from iPhone.

Help Tips:
Back up your WhatsApp messages manually, this is the best way to make sure your iPhone data safe, and you can get back lost WhatsApp message quickly from backup.

iTunes: iTunes can only let you backup the whole data on your iPhone, and it updates the backup once you sync the iPhone with it, instead of making a new backup. Therefore, when losing data on your iPhone, don't sync your iPhone with iTunes any more. You can retrieve it by restoring your iPhone from iTunes backup.

iCloud: Apple's own iCloud storage system provides you with 5GB of free storage for each free account. If you've created one and enabled it, all photos taken with your iPhone will automatically be uploaded to your iCloud account. When you accidentally deleted photos from your iPhone, the deleted photos will be still on the latest iCloud backup if you've made one for them.

iPhone 4S recovery is a professional recovery software available in the market, which will assist you to recover deleted notes even all lost data from your iPhone 4S, including camera roll, contacts, messages, call history, videos and more other files.

Part 1: Extract iTunes backup to recover iPhone data

This program enables you to recover data on iPhone from the backup files on iTunes, no matter you are using iPhone 5, iPhone 4S, iPhone4, or iPhone 3GS, or you just lost it. And it can help to find the data back on your computer.

# Scan the backup file
No matter you just lost your iPhone or you still hold it in your hand, don't connect or sync it with iTunes after you lost your contacts, to prevent the backup file from being updated and replaced by the contacts on your iPhone now.
If you have synced different iDevices with iTunes before, there will be more than one backup files, after you click "Recover from iTunes Backup File" on the top of the primary window. Choose the one for your iPhone and click "Start Scan". Then move further.

# Recover your iPhone data
The scan only takes you a few seconds. All the contents from the backup file will be displayed in details. You can read the content right now, no matter from the Contacts, but also from the Messages, Call History, Notes, and you also can preview the photos & videos contained on your iPhone. To recover the data, check the files then you can save the content on your computer.

Part 2: How to recover deleted data from iPhone 4S without backup

If you don't have iPhone backup in iTunes, you can follow steps below to recover data from iPhone directly.
Step1. Download and install iPhone data recovery program on your computer. Launch iPhone data recovery program, and then connect iPhone to computer.
Step 2. iPhone data recovery program, click "Recover from iOS device" on top, and click “Start Scan”.
Step 3. You will see deleted photos, videos, and other data listed in page below, select "Camera Roll" or "Photo Stream" and you can preview deleted photos. Choose those you want to recover and press "Recover" button.

Note: if you are iPhone 4/3GS users, you need to enter DFU mode to recover lost data from iPhone 4S.
Here are the steps to enter DFU mode.
1) Hold your device and press "Start" button.
2) Hold "Power" and "Home" buttons simultaneously for exact 10 seconds.
3) Release the "Power" button after 10 seconds but keep holding the "Home" button for another 10 seconds. Release it until you are informed successfully entering device system. Then click "Start Scan" to find out your iPhone deleted data files

Before tell you how to recover deleted pictures from iPad, let’s list the cases that you may delete photos from an iPad so that you should attention when recover iPad photos.
Case 1: you mistakenly delete a precious photo instead of the unimportant one?
Case 2: you delete the photos since it shows data error and disables you to access it?
Case 3: the photos are deleted with unknown reasons during the transferring process?
Case 4: you accidentally delete all photos while you just want to delete some?
Case 5: you just pressed the format option on Samsung digital devices
Case 6: you pressed one button to factory setting and then everything is no longer there.

iPad Data Recovery is the professional tool can help to recover iPad photos deleted by any reason above. Even though you may not make the iTunes backup, you can restore them if you use iPad. Download the free trial version program to check your deleted photos before you retrieve them.

Learn how to recover deleted photos from iPad without Backup

Step 1: Install this program after downloading iPad Data Recovery program and launch it. Select “Recover Data from iOS Device” as recovery then connect your iPad to the computer with a digital cable.

Step 2: Enter DFU mode to scan your device. After downloading the plug-in, you need to get into the device's scanning mode before scanning. You can follow the steps below:
1) Hold your iPad and click the "Start" button.
2) Pressing the "Power" and "Home" buttons simultaneously for 10 seconds.
3) After 10 seconds, release the "Power" button, but keep holding "Home" for another 15 seconds.
When you enter the system successfully, your data will be automatically scanned.

Step 3: After the scan, you can preview all found data in categories. To preview your photos, you can choose "Camera Roll" or "Photo Stream". Photos found here are not only those deleted, but also includes those still on your iPad. You can click "Recover" to save them on your computer.

Note: After you perform iPad photo recovery, please don’t write any data into your iPad until you get all the photos.

I read a question asked by an iPhone 5 user on Yahoo! Answers:
I have been with my boyfriend for a year and a half, and he has just admitted to me that he has been speaking to his ex by text message, but he has deleted all of the messages, he told me that he wanted to go and have drink with her but that she didn't want to, i would like to try and retrieve deleted text messages on iPhone to see what they really said, or if they saw each other...

Although reading other’s text messages without admitting is immoral, I still will tell you it is possible to retrieve deleted text messages.

With the help of iPhone Data Recovery program, it is very simple for you to recover deleted iPhone sms with/without backup. What you need to do is searching online for reliable iPhone data recovery tool. Tenorshare is the one most people who have used would recommend. Not only Tenorshare iPhone Data Recovery program enable to recover deleted text messages on iPhone but also for other files as contacts, photos, notes, bookmarks, call history and more. And it works well on iPhone 5, 4S, 4 and 3GS.

Method 1: how to recover deleted text messages from iPhone from Backup

Have synced iPhone with iTunes before lost sms? Then even you don’t have your iPhone in hand, you still can find deleted text messages on iPhone. See below steps:
1: Download iPhone Data Recovery software and install in on your computer. Launch it and choose “Recover Data from iTunes Backup” as recovery.
2: You can see all the backup files on your computer are showed on the program, you need to check the backup file contain the text you need, and click “Start Scan”.
3: Preview the lost files after the scanning. Check the “Messages” on the left of the program and select the sms messages to click “Recover” for iPhone text message recovery.

Method 2: how to retrieve deleted text messages from iPhone without Backup

In this way, you need to choose “Recover Data from iOS Device” as recovery and connect your iPhone with computer. iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S users just click “start scan” to enter the scanning directly, but the iPhone 4/3GS users need to enter DFU mode to scan lost files.
3 Steps to enter DFU mode:
#.Click "Start" on the interface of the software and then press "Home" and "Power" button on your iPhone at the same time.
#.Hold both of them for about 10 seconds.
#.Then release "Power" and keep pressing "Home" for another 10 seconds.
Once the scanning completed, what you need to do is previewing and recovering text messages iPhone.

No matter you’re using iPhone 5, 4S, 4, 3GS or previous versions, even your iPhone is damaged or broken, iTunes Data Recovery can recover iPhone notes, photos & videos, contacts, SMS, call records, memos and calendars, as long as you synced iPhone with iTunes before.

iTunes Data Recovery enables you recover deleted notes on iPhone caused by any reasons below:
1.iPhone cannot be accessed because of it has been disabled, iPhone/iPad/iPod disabled/locked after entering wrong password?
2.iPhone was water damaged or lost.
3.Delete notes by mistake without backup
4.Lost all of your files from iPhone because of Jailbreak or iOS upgrade,
5.Factory settings restore etc. so you lost all of your notes from your iPhone
6.Notes cannot work when you syncing from iCould or iTunes

Note: Don't sync your iPhone with iTunes when you found your note lost, to prevent the backup from updating. And don't use your iPhone for anything if you don't have any backup file, avoiding data overwritten.

At the very beginning, please install the iTunes Data Recovery program and run on your personal computer.
STEP-1. When running the program on your PC, you'll get your several backup files for iDevices if you've synced more than one Apple devices with iTunes. Select the one for your iPhone, and click “Start Scan” to scan it.
STEP-2. The whole content of note on your iPhone is displayed after the scan. You can preview the content. Then check and recover it with one click.
Now, you have already got back the notes you need in two easy steps. Besides, you can also recover previous photos, contacts, videos, messages and call history. If you want to save all your data at the same time, you can give a click easily.

If you want to restore notes on iPhone directly, try iPhone Data Recovery, as the deleted notes are not removed from iPhone actually, they are just hidden and marked as no use.