How to Retrieve Data from iCloud without Restoring iPhone

“Now I don’t know how to retrieve my calendar, notes, reminders. Somehow my contacts are there. I went to general settings and made sure the icloud was turned on, but I don’t know how to pull from the icloud what we had previously backed up. Thanks for ANY suggestions.”

Just like the Apple user reported, you may need to retrieve individual data like contacts, messages, photos and so on from iCloud backup. But how to? Since backup contents are only available when you do a whole restoration. In such case, you need the help of some third-party backup extracting tools and you can give iOS Data Recovery a try.

With this tool, you are able to see specific contents in iCloud and restore partial data without resetting your iDevice. And now, you can get this tool installed on your PC/Mac and follow our detailed guide below to finish retrieving progress.

How to retrieve data from iCloud backup with this app

Step 1. Open this app and select “Recover from iCloud”.

How to retrieve data from iCloud

Step 2. Click the right arrow, enter your Apple ID and password to sign in 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 with info of backup size and date, select one relevant backup and click Download icon. After download progress done, click the forward icon to continue.

Choose one backup you need

Step 4. Now, you are in your selected iCloud backup page, choose data types to see detailed contents, select your needed ones and click “To Computer” to retrieve them to your computer.

How to retrieve data from iCloud without resetting

Besides retrieving data like call history, videos and app data from iCloud backup, this app also offers you the other two recovery modes: recover from iOS device and recover from iTunes backup, to let you have more chances to get back your deleted or disappeared data and files on your iPhone iPad. So why not download it now and have a free try?