How to recover lost WeChat photos on iPhone

“I couldn’t find some of my WeChat photos on iPhone, may be i have lost or deleted them occasionally. What should i do to recover lost WeChat photos on iPhone?”

WeChat is becoming more and more popular around the world, and many people who are more than 60 years old are using WeChat App. And many families are not together, they may work in different cities, so they would like to use WeChat contacting each other, sending messages, photos, videos ect, which are very precious, especial WeChat photos. When lost your WeChat photos, don’t worry, here are several ways can help you recover them on your iPhone. Follow below steps and learn more.

Recover lost WeChat photos on iPhone from your Backups

If you have done some backups on your iTunes or iCloud backup, we can recover your lost WeChat photos from them.

First, we’ll see how to recover lost WeChat photos from iTunes backup:

Launching your iTunes, click iPhone image icon. Go to Files--Summary, then tap on “Restore Backup”, then confirm with “Restore”.

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Second, Recover lost WeChat photos from iCloud backup:

Connect your iPhone with Wifi, go to Setting--General--Erase all content and settings, when all content and settings are erased, go to set up assistant with a hello screen.

Then swipe to begin the set up progress, choose the files you need, tap on “Restore Backup”, and confirm with “restore”.

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Remark: when recover lost iPhone data from iTunes and iCloud backup, it will need us to erase all content and settings. Also it won’t allow us to do it selectively, and we couldn’t preview them before restoring. So we have to restore the whole folder, then some iPhone data may be overwritten.

Recover lost WeChat photos on iPhone with iRefone

When you didn’t do any backup, and want to restore your lost WeChat photos selectivley, iRefone is your best choice.

iRefone is a professional iOS data recovery software, which can recover more than 16 kinds of files, like contacts, notes, messages, photos, WeChat messages, reminders ect. Also it can extract data from iTunes and iCloud backup selectively, and it allows you to preview them before restoring.

Now you can download and install the free trial version to have a try.



Step 1. Run iRefone, connect your iPhone with PC, choose “Recover from iOS Device”, click “Start”.



Step 2. Then we’ll enter the new interface with many data icon and media icon that iRefone can recover, click “WeChat Attachment” icon.



Step 3. When finish scanning, you can preview and choose WeChat photos you need, tap on “Recover to PC”, and choose the folder path to save them.



Remark: if you have done backup on iTunes and iCloud, iRefone can help you extract data from them selectively, and it supports to preview them before restoring.