How to Restore Photos from iCloud Backup without iDevice

“Hi,I lost my Iphone and I would like to restore my photos from iCloud to my PC or to my IPad. Pls advise how to do? Thanks.”

Most of you may unluckily get your iPhone lost and tend to retrieve some valuable iPhone photos form iCloud backup. But how to? Since you have no usable device to restore. In such case, you need a third-party backup files extracting tool to help you and iOS Data Recovery is competent as such a tool.

With iOS Data Recovery, you can access your iCloud backup contents on your Windows/Mac and retrieve your wanted pictures to computer. Besides, it enables you to restore a variety of photos like Camera Roll photos, pictures in Notes or Messages attachments, and other apps images on your iDevice. And below, we provide you a detailed tutorial about how to use this tool.

Before starting, you need to get this tool installed on your computer and follow the below steps to begin your retrieving progress.

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How to restore photos from iCloud backup on computer

Step 1. Open this software and choose “Recover from iCloud”.

Restore photos from iCloud backup

Step 2. Click Next button, enter your Apple ID and password to log into iCloud account to scan your backups.

Enter Apple ID and password to log into iCloud account

Step 3. After scan, you can see all your iCloud backups, choose a related backup and click Download button. And the download time largely depends on the data size of your backup and network condition. After the downloading finished, click forward icon to go on.

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Step 4. On the left panel, choose “Photos” to check your Camera Roll pictures, pick up your desired ones and click “To Computer” to export them to your computer.

How to restore Photos from iCloud backup without iPhone

As we show on the screenshots, even when your iPhone iPad gets damaged/lost, this app still lets you restore photos as well other data like messages, videos, etc from iCloud backup. Furthermore, if there is usable iTunes backup, it also enables you to reach iTunes backup and recover pictures to your computer. So why not download iOS Data Recovery now and give it a try?