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k31k0 Author

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Recovery of data after forced phone restoration

last night my iPhone XR stopped working. It just shut off and kept switching between the apple logo and black screen. I tried doing the soft reset many times. It went to the support screen so I plugged it in and connected it to iTunes. I updated it but it still didn’t work so as my last resort I restored it. After a couple hours it finished and I had to redo everything in my phone, but none of my photos exist anymore and most of my notes are gone. I checked iCloud and there’s barely anything there. Is there a way to get this stuff back?

Posted on Apr 18, 2020 8:55 PM

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Johnathan Burger

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Posted on Apr 18, 2020 9:46 PM

If you didn't back it up before it failed, nope.

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