Resotre Lost a lot of photos from iPhone after upgrade to iOS 9/iOS 8

“Yep, I know... I hear an "I told you so" coming, BUT..... I've lost a bunch of photos after upgrading to iOS 9 on both my iPhone and iPad. I had recent iTunes backups on both, and did move some photos off to my computer, but not all. I'd guess I had 400+ pics on my iPhone and now I have..... 21. Not sure why I have those, as they are in a folder marked 'Recently Added'. Maybe they will magically appear later....?

Other than that, so far I am liking the new OS and using all of the super helpful articles here to learn about the new features.How can i scan and recover lost iPhone photos after upgrading to iOS 9?”--Ask by juwaack in Apple disscussion

Why we can restore lost photos from iPhone after iOS upgrading:
1. For people whose iPhone stuck in white screen of death or recovery mode while upgrading iPhone to iOS 8 or iOS 9, you don't need to recover photos from iPhone now! All you need is to check how to fix iPhone white screen of death or how to get iPhone out of recovery mode. For sure, after learning the ways, your iPhone will be turned into normal mode.

2. If you lost photos from your iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus or any other iPhone running in iOS 8, you should tap Photos app and go to Recently Deleted folder to check out whether these lost photos are there or not. If they are there, you can restore them right away. If there are not there, you should still have chance to scan and recover lost photos from iPhone 6/6 plus, iPhone 5s/5, iPhone 4s/4 after update to iOS 8/iOS 9

Recover iPhone lost photos after iOS 9 update

iOS 9 or iOS 8 Update Could Erase Your iPhone Photos

Updating to iOS 8 on your iPhone is a hard choice, becayse the new update will definitely fix some bugs but the familiar Camera Roll and Photo Stream Pictures are gone. Just like you lost data after iOS 7 update, you may suffer data loss, such as you lost photos on iPhone after iOS 8/iOS 9 update( even iTunes not recognized your iPhone).

Recover iPhone iPad photos iOS 8/9 update

Lost photos on your iPhone after iOS 9 upgrading? But many users have reported that photo stream folder, camera roll album, or other pictures in apps disappeared after the new iOS 8 installed. In this article, we will introduce the top-tier methods to recover iPhone photos after iOS 9 update or after iOS 8.1/8.2/8.3 upgrade, the photos including the ones lost from iPhone camera roll, photo library, photo stream, as well as from apps like WhatsApp, Tango, Viber, Instagram, Flickr, iPhoto, iMovie, Kindle, etc.

 

With a right way, you can still restore iPhone photos with original quality. The iOS 9 Data Recovery: iPhone Data Recovery lets you recover deleted or lost photos from iPhone in iOS 8, iOS 9 in 3 ways: directly recover photos from iPhone, recover from an iTunes backup file and recover from iCloud backup file. Check detailed 3 solutions below to restore iPhone lost data after ios 9 update.

Way 1: Restore Lost Photos from iPhone direclty after iOS 9 upgrading?

Step 1. Connect your iPhone to the computer

Install the iPhone Data Recovery and launch it on your computer, then connect your iPhone to the computer. Finally, you will see the window as below. Note: If you are iPhone 4/3GS, iPad 1 or iPod touch 4 users, you should press the button at the lower-right corner named “Advanced Mode” .

Step 2. Scan the lost data on your iPhone

Click the “Start Scan” button to start scanning your iPhone immediately to look for the existing and the deleted data. Note: For those choose the “Advanced Mode“, you need to follow the description in the pop-up interface to scan deeply.

Step 3. Preview and recover lost data from iPhone/iPad in iOS 9

Few seconds later, all data in your iPhone will be appealed in categories. You are able to choose the content on the left to preview them one by one, such as photos, messages and notes. At last, you can click “Recover” button to restore iPhone photos you want on your computer.

The other two ways to restore iPhone lost data as below:

Way 2: Restore iPad lost photo from iTunes backup after iOS 8/9 update

Step 1: Connect your iPhone to the PC/Mac via usb cable and run iTunes
Step 2: Click on Devices tab
Step 3: Right-click on the iPhone and choose “Restore from Backup”.
Step4: From the drop-down menu, choose the backup that you wish to restore from, and hit “Restore”
Now you have restore your iPad data from iTunes backup file.
See also:How to find and view iTunes backup file

Way 3: Recover iPad lost photos with iCloud after upgrading to iOS 8/iOS 9

Step 1: Make sure you have sync your iPad with iCloud before. Go to Settings > iCloud > Storage & Backup, then look at the bottom of the screen for the message Last Backup, followed by the date of the latest backup. (Set up a new iPad with iCloud)
Step 2: Go to Settings > General > Reset, then tap “Erase all content and settings.”
Step 3: In the Setup Assistant, proceed to “Set up your device,” tap Restore from a Backup, then sign in to iCloud.
Step 4: Proceed to “Choose backup,” then choose from a list of available backups in iCloud.

Free download the ios data recovery:

  

If you didn’t have iTunes/iCloud backup or you just want to selectively retrieve photos without restore the whole backup, you can have a try iOS data recovery software for your iPad 2.

Tips: The iPhone iPad Data Recovery software is pretty easy to use and it can recover the deleted photos from your iPhone 6/5/5S/4S/4 very fast. The programs can also recover other kinds of deleted data such as contacts,messages, videos, pictures,whatsApp,iMessages etc.