2 Ways to Extract iPhone Backup in Windows 10/8

Part 1: Extract iTunes backup without wiping your data

First, you need to get an iPhone backup extractor that works greatly in Windows 10/8: Dr.Fone - Data Recovery (iOS). This iPhone backup extractor allows you to choose the file types and extract whatever you want on your Windows 10/8 computer. Most importantly, it won't damage your original iPhone data during the process.

Steps to extract iPhone backup

Step 1. Scan to extract the backup file in Windows 10/8

After downloading and installing Dr. Fone on your Windows 10/8 comptuer, run it and switch to the "Recover from iTunes Backup File" option on the top. You'll get the window as follow. Here all iTunes backup files for your iOS devices will be listed automatically. Choose the one for your iPhone and click "Start Scan" to extract the backup file.

Step 2. Preview and recover iPhone backup data in Windows 10/8

After the extracting, all data inside the backup will be displayed in organized categories like Camera Roll, Photo Stream, Contacts, Messages, etc. You can click any of them to preview the detailed contents. Then mark those you want to save on your computer and click "Recover to Device" or "Recover to Computer". That's all. Your iTunes backup file has been extracted successfully.

Video Guide: How to Extract iPhone Backup

Part 2: Selectively extract iPhone backup on iCloud without data loss

Step 1 Select "Recover from iCloud Backup Files"

Start Data Recovery and select "Recover from iCloud Backup Files". Type in your Apple account and password to login iCloud.

Step 2 Download and select extract files

Then, Dr.Fone will scan all the iCloud backup files and you can select an iCloud backup file type to download. You can choose to extract contacts from iPhone backup or extract photos from iPhone backup, it is flexible and determined by you.

From the below window, just select the the type of iCloud backup file to download. No need to check those unnecessary files to download, it will just waste you more time.

Step 3: Preview and selectively extract iPhone backup from iCloud

When your iCloud backup data is download and list on the below window. You can select the particular photos, messages, videos, contacts or many other files to extract. It is very simple and convenient.