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Foxerly Phone Recovery
Get messages, photos and contacts back from your iPhone backups
Foxerly Phone Recovery reads the iPhone and iPad backups on your Windows PC, or helps you make a fresh one with Apple’s free app, and shows you everything it can get back, including deleted messages, before you pay.
- iPhone and iPad backups
- Free scan and preview
- Read-only
What Foxerly Phone Recovery does
Recover from a phone backup
Read the iPhone backups already saved on your PC, and pull out single photos or conversations without restoring the whole phone.
Preview before you pay
See the photos, read the messages and check the contacts that were found before recovering anything.
Read-only
Foxerly only reads the backup. Nothing on the phone or in the backup is changed, deleted or reset.
Readable exports
Messages as HTML, PDF or CSV, contacts as VCF or CSV, the calendar as ICS, and photos, videos and voice memos in their original format (HEIC photos also as JPG).
Many kinds of data
Photos, videos, messages, contacts, call history, notes, voice memos and attachments, depending on the phone and backup.
How to use Foxerly Phone Recovery
- 1
Choose or make a backup
Pick an iPhone backup that is already on this PC, or plug in your iPhone and make a fresh one with Apple’s free app.
- 2
Scan and preview
Foxerly Phone Recovery lists everything it can read, sorted by type, with deleted items marked.
- 3
Recover to your PC
Select what you want back and save it to a folder on your computer.
When Foxerly Phone Recovery helps
Phones store deleted data differently from PCs, and what can be recovered depends on the phone, how long ago it happened and whether a backup exists.
Photos deleted after a backup
Pictures you removed from the phone that are still in an older iPhone backup on your PC, including ones that were in Recently Deleted.
Lost messages and contacts
Conversations deleted by mistake, or contacts that disappeared after a sync problem or reset.
Photos inside an old backup
Get single photos or chats out of an iPhone backup on your PC without wiping your current phone to restore it.
Before you sell or trade in
Pull everything you still want off an old phone or its backups before it leaves your hands.
Check these places first
Before scanning, it is worth checking the places where phones keep deleted items for a while. They are free and often have exactly what you are looking for.
- Recently Deleted on iPhone. The Photos app keeps deleted pictures and videos in the Recently Deleted album for about 30 days.
- The bin in your gallery or cloud photo app. Most Android gallery apps and cloud photo services keep deleted items in a bin for a limited time.
- Your cloud backup. If the phone backs up to a cloud account, older copies of messages and contacts may still be there.
If none of these have it, a scan with Foxerly Phone Recovery is the next step. Backups on your PC usually give the best results, because they are a snapshot of the phone from before the data was deleted.
Technical details
- Works on
- Windows 11 and Windows 10, 64-bit
- Phones
- iPhone and iPad (backups made by iTunes or the Apple Devices app)
- Sources
- iPhone and iPad backups on the PC, plain or encrypted (with your backup password), and a connected iPhone through a fresh backup
- Data types
- Photos, videos, messages and attachments, contacts, call history, notes, calendar and voice memos
- Exports
- Original media files (HEIC also as JPG), HTML, PDF or CSV for messages, VCF and CSV for contacts, CSV for calls, ICS for the calendar, M4A for voice memos
Foxerly Phone Recovery questions
Can I recover photos after clearing Recently Deleted?
Only if an iPhone backup made before you cleared it is still on your PC. Foxerly Phone Recovery opens that backup and lets you take the photos out without restoring the phone.
Is recovery possible without a backup?
On an iPhone, no: iOS does not let any app reach deleted data directly. Make a backup now and scan it. Deleted messages that iOS has not yet cleared out of its database often still show up.
Will scanning change anything on my phone?
No. Foxerly Phone Recovery only reads backups. It never writes to the phone or to the backup.
Can it read iPhone backups I already have on my PC?
Yes. It finds the backups on your computer and lets you browse them and take out single items, without restoring the whole phone.
Does it work with Android phones?
Not for deleted data. Android phones without root only give a PC their current files, and Android backups are either already plain files (Google Takeout) or encrypted by the maker (Samsung Smart Switch). For the photos and files on an Android phone now, use Foxerly Phone Manager.
Do I need to keep the phone connected during the scan?
Only while Apple’s app makes the backup. The scan reads the backup on your PC, so the phone can be unplugged.
Can it read encrypted backups?
Yes, with the backup password you set in iTunes or the Apple Devices app. It is used once and never saved. A forgotten backup password cannot be recovered, by us or by Apple.