How to Restore Your iPhone after Jailbreak

Selena Lee

Apr 28, 2022 • Filed to: Fix iOS Mobile Device Issues • Proven solutions

Any way to restore my iPhone content after jailbreak?

I had my iPhone jailbroken. After that, all the contents of my iPhone were lost! I need my contacts back urgently. It's very important to me. Is there any way that I can restore my iPhone and get the content back? Thanks advace.

If you've synced your iPhone with iTunes before the jailbreak, it's not a problem. You can use an iphone backup extractor to get back all your contents, including contacts, photos, videos, SMS, notes, call history, etc. But one thing you should keep in mind is that not to sync your iPhone with iTunes after you lost all the contents, or your previous data will be overwritten and you won't ever get it back. With this in mind, let's check detailed steps below together.

How to Restore your iPhone after a Jailbreak

First of all, get an iPhone restoring tool. If you don't have one yet, you can have my recommendation here: Dr.Fone - Phone Data Recovery or Dr.Fone - Mac iPhone Data Recovery , a reliable program that allows you to preview and recover previous contacts, SMS, notes, photos, videos and more. All these only takes you several steps to restore iPhone from jailbreak.

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Method 1. Steps of Restoring iPhone from iTunes Backup after a Jailbreak

Step 1. After installing the program, run it on your computer and you'll get the window below.Choose recovery mode "Recover from iTunes Backup File".Here all your iPhone backup files are found and displayed automatically in a list. Select the one with the latest date and click "Start Scan" to extract the inaccessible backup.

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Step 2. After the scan is completed,you can preview all the previous contents one by one to decide which one you need before recovery, then mark those you want and click "Recover to Computer" or "Recover to Device". You're restoring all of them now.

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Note: Therefore, backup is very important, no matter you're using iPhone SE, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6, iPhone 5C, iPhone 5S, iPhone 5, iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, or other versions. It only takes you a few minutes, so do backup your iPhone often.

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Method 2. Restore iPhone after a Jailbreak from iCloud Backup

Step 1. Run Dr.Fone choose "Recover from iCloud Backup File",then log in your iCloud account.You needn't connect your iPhone.

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Step 2. Choose and download the backup file in your account,wait it till completed,then choose the file type to scan,this process will take some time.

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Step 3. You can mark the contents you want to restore after the scan is finished,then click "Recover to Device" or "Recover to Computer" to restore data.

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