Data recovery

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Data recovery

I have an iphone 12 that drowned in the sea. Such iphone 12 is synced with iphone 7 and my MacBook.

unfortunately after it drowned I lost everything on it except these which were stored on icloud “knowing that the icloud throughout the past 5-6 months didn’t have space and I forgot to buy space.

when I opened my iphone 7 some data were restored (notes, some pictures from the last 6 months yet not all, the contacts & notes).

currently I’m looking for any solution that could get me back such lost data (whatsapp chats & pics) if possible; knowing that the iphone 12 has drowned so I don’t have it as a device now. It’s only synced to the iphone 7 I now have & the macbook and of course the apple id.

iPhone 12, iOS 15

Posted on Jul 28, 2022 8:15 AM

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Bob Timmons

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Jul 28, 2022 8:52 AM in response to Fika2

You would need to erase the phone and then restore from the backup. But, this won't make much sense if you have a full backup of the iPhone already.

My recommendation would be to back up the phone to your Mac or PC on a regular basis, so you always have a full complete copy of the phone if you ever need to to restore all the data to the phone.

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Fika2 Author

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Jul 28, 2022 8:39 AM in response to Fika2

Also, how do I make sure that everything that shows to me now on the iphone 7 is everything that has been synced?

i mean since the iphone 12’s capacity is bigger than the iphone 7’s isn’t there a possibility that some things didn’t show because of the capacity change difference??

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