How to backup and restore ONLY photos on iPhone and nothing else?

Hi, I have an iPhone 6.


My instagram account got disabled for no reason, and rather than waiting for them to respond to my email, I have decided to take matters into my own hands. I have read that by restoring your phone to default/factory settings, you will be able to get rid of the error message that your "account has been disabled". (By the way, it is just my device that cannot access my account. If I log into my instagram account on my mom's phone, it works; just not my phone).


First, I restored my phone to factory settings and reinstalled instagram. I tried to log on and IT WORKED!!! The only problem was that my pictures were gone...


So, I decided to backup my data using the iCloud backup option, and upon restoring my phone (again) all of my pictures were restored. But, when I tried to relog into instagram, it didn't work... So therefore the "bad stuff" (coding on my phone which instagram has modified to not allow me to log in) was brought in again to my phone...


Is there any way to restore my photos without anything else at all? Would dropbox work?? I would love to have the dates and everything back in order correctly as well...! Please help, thanks!

iPhone 6, iOS 8.1.3

Posted on Feb 18, 2015 3:22 PM

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Feb 18, 2015 5:12 PM in response to 17kchen

Hi, I have an iPhone 6.


My instagram account got disabled for no reason, and rather than waiting for them to respond to my email, I have decided to take matters into my own hands. I have read that by restoring your phone to default/factory settings, you will be able to get rid of the error message that your "account has been disabled". (By the way, it is just my device that cannot access my account. If I log into my instagram account on my mom's phone, it works; just not my phone).


I hate when Instagram do that. I been in your shoes. You would need to restore your iPhone as a new phone to use Instagram with your iPhone 6 once again


So, I decided to backup my data using the iCloud backup option, and upon restoring my phone (again) all of my pictures were restored. But, when I tried to relog into instagram, it didn't work... So therefore the "bad stuff" (coding on my phone which instagram has modified to not allow me to log in) was brought in again to my phone...

Is because Instagram blocked that phone, so the backup have the block so you cannot restore from back... you must restore as a new iphone

Is there any way to restore my photos without anything else at all? Would dropbox work?? I would love to have the dates and everything back in order correctly as well...! Please help, thanks

  1. You can use 3rd party apps such as dropbox, box.net, sugarsync, or Googledrive and back up your photos
  2. Or transfer all your photos from iPhone to your computer>restore iPhone as brand new iPhone>then transfer photos back


How?

  • Through Itunes
  • Airdrop
  • Or any 3rd party Apps


View the links below to help you with the process

Import photos and videos from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to your Mac or Windows PC - Apple Support

Sync your iPhone, iPad, and iPod with iTunes using USB - Apple Support

Share content with AirDrop from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support

Feb 18, 2015 5:27 PM in response to wilkie.joissaint

Thanks so much for the detailed reply! I want to factory reset my phone and then sync my photos from my computer to my camera roll. When I tried using iPhoto, it worked, essentially, but the only down-side of this is that I can't delete/edit any of my pictures that are on my phone (I have to do it via iTunes which is REALLY annoying). I have also tried dropbox but in order to save the pics to my camera roll I have to save them one by one (I have like 600+ pictures so that's really tedious)!!!! Do you think airdropping the pictures from my iphone to mac and then back would work? Thanks!!!!

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