Best iPhone data recovery software? (no backup)

As you have learned, the discussion of backups should be made before a problem. However, with that in mind, I cannot recommend a specific product, but I can tell you that most of the products do not do such a great job and generally will only recover very minimal amounts of data. I've also read others saying that it never seems to recover what they were looking for. The other problem is that anything that would seem to be a better choice can be very expensive.

The decision to move forward with this is up to you. I would try a search of the forum to see what kind of threads you find that discuss recovery software, and take the opinions there with a grain of salt. This is an international public forum, and is used by volunteers, as Apple does not participate here. It is very easy to get "taken" by companies or individuals making statements that cannot be proven. Good luck, since most are not reliable and will not get your data back.

I don't know if I would make the statement that they are all 'legit' as in legitimately perform as advertised. There are over two million apps and games on the store.

You only need to scan a few that say data recovery and look at some of the user reviews. I won’t give the name but a quick search reviews such as:

"Totally useless when you tap "How to Use" the app goes straight to an add for another app that you have to buy. A complete POS, not worth the time it takes to click download much less anymore time from there."

With a passcode set on the phone, all data on the device, including the camera roll is encrypted. There is no data recover software out there that's going to cost anything short of 7 figures that is going to be able to recover anything at all now that the device was re-set.

Sorry. Your photos are gone.

Legit, to my knowledge, means: you can buy and use it without going against laws.

That's what I said.

I don't give judgements about things that I don't know, and I didn't talk about quality, reliability, efficiency.

Regards

Giulio

English is not my native language, but I studied Latin here in Italy many decades ago, and I still use some expressions daily.

In this case I would have said: praemonitus praemunitus.

In english...let me try with Google... should be: forewarned is forearmed.

Glad you understood my point of view.

Giulio

See the last reply by Michael Black on this thread

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- you will not like the answer, however.

All the recovery apps on App Store are legit, but I can't recommend any of them since I've never tried to use that kind of software.

Regards

Giulio

I figured that is what you meant 😉 Caveat emptor.

Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur.

Agreed