How to Retrieve Photos from iPhone Backup on Windows PC

“One day I completely erased my iPhone 4S (I gave it to a friend.) Well anyways I forgot to transfer the precious photos to my Windows 7 laptop! I didn’t want to back it up, as I only wanted the photos. Well how stupid of me for forgetting to transfer! But LUCKILY I have a recent backup of everything on iTunes on my laptop. How do I JUST extract the photos from that complete backup on iTunes? Please give me STEP BY STEP. I don’t have the iPhone anymore, all I have is: my Windows 7 laptop and the LATEST iTunes version. Help!”

Just like the iPhone user reported, you may drop into the same situation that you have no iPhone at hand and all your iPhone data including precious photos are not reachable, but luckily you have an iPhone backup in iTunes on Windows computer. In this case, is it possible to extract photos from iTunes backup on Windows?

In fact, the answer is definitely yes and all your need to do is to download and install iOS Data Recovery on your PC. This professional iPhone data recovery tool enables you to access iTunes backup, preview all your photos details, pick up and export your needed pictures from backup to your Windows 7/8/10/XP/Vista. And below, we’ll talk about how to use this tool.

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How to extract photos from iTunes backup with this software

Step 1. Run this software on PC, select “Recover from iTunes Backup” and click forward icon to safely scan iTunes backups.

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Step 2. After scan, you can see a list of backups on iTunes, pick up your wanted one and click right arrow to access the contents in that backup.

Choose one backup you want

Step 3. On the left panel, you can click “Photos” to preview all your photos in backup, choose your desired images, and save them to your Windows by clicking “To Computer” button.

Extract photos from iPhone backup on Windows

As we show on the left side of the screenshot in step 3, iOS Data Recovery can extract not only photos from iTunes backup to your PC, but also other 20 data types like notes, Safari bookmarks, Voice memo, etc. In addition, it is also capable of retrieving data from iCloud backup to Windows. So why not download it now and give it a try?