OK. I factory reset my sisters iPhone she gave me because I lost mine and she got an upgrade. She had a fuckton of pictures/videos she wanted to save and I didn't save them before the reset.
I have looked into some software, but what I looked at you needed to get the paid version to do anything useful.
Does anyone know how to look at the data that was on the HD BEFORE the factory reset, or any programs that are free that can look at that data?
In my experience, unless she backs up to icloud which many iphone users should! I don't think you can without paying hefty moneyes
"without paying hefty moneyes" makes it sound like its physically possible, and if its physically possible I have a hard time believing some human being out there hasn't written some program that I can DL to do it myself. I mean the people I would pay money to would have to use some sort of computer program, so wtf are they using?
Very unfortunate if you are correct though :(
I worked at Geek Squad for far too long, and with Apple employees to feel like I am wrong about it. Data Recovery level 2 possibly. Idk. @wendell might have a better perspective.
Thanks for the replies, do you know any service that would do that type of data recovery?
Depends on how much you want to pay. You might be looking at 500 or more or less. Recovery ain't cheap at those types of businesses.
It is probably too late anyway if the phone has been being used. But rooting it and then treating it like standard HD recovery has had success for people in the past.
There's a more useful idea than mine!