Thank you in advance for any help you are able to give. My last backup was last night and today I accidentally deleted a video from my photo stream. Is there a way to retrieve it?

By Jtorres2011 from Apple Community

Users are able to upload photos and videos to a shared stream so that the photos and videos can both be viewed on the iDevice. The Photo Stream is a built-in service of iCloud, and it allows users to save photos into the cloud, and view them with ease on all of their iOS devices if they use one Apple ID for all the devices. If the users accidentally delete the photos or videos in Photo Stream, they can retrieve them with iTunes.

As Jtorres2011 mentioned in his post, he has made a backup one day before he lost the videos, so he can recover deleted iPhone videos from the iTunes backup. Restoring iPhone with iTunes on Mac is easy to be done. When the restoring process is finished, the iPhone will restart, and then the data in the iPhone backup will be restored to iPhone. The newer the iPhone backup is, the more data are restored to iPhone. If you are not sure whether the deleted videos are in the iPhone backup or not, you can use the third party iPhone data recovery software for Mac to recover deleted videos from iPhone, as this kind of software enables users to extract data from iTunes backups without restoring the whole backup to the iOS devices.

Part 1. Recover Deleted Videos from iPhone/iPad/iPod touch on Mac

Among all the iPhone data recovery programs, Leawo iOS Data Recovery for Mac can be regarded as one of the best. The following guidance will show you how to recover deleted videos from iPhone backup, and you are allowed to free download the software to have a try. Note that the trial version will stop at the preview window.

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Ttorial on How to Recover Deleted Videos from iPhone/iPad/iPod touch on Mac

1. Run Leawo iOS Data Recovery for Mac, and you will see three recovery modes in the main interface: Recover from iOS Devices, Recover from iTunes Backup and Recover from iCloud Backup. You can choose one of them to recover your deleted videos, here we will take recovering from iTunes backup as an example.

2. Choose "Recover from iTunes Backup" and then the software will display all the backups in the main interface. Choose the iPhone backup and click "Scan" at the right bottom.

3. The software will scan the contents in the backup, and list 12 categories in the left sidebar. When the scan is done, the names of the categories will turn white. Choose "Photo Stream" and then the contents will show up in the right part. Check the videos and click "Recover" at the right bottom.

4. After clicking the recover button, you will see a pop-up dialog. Click "Open" in the dialog to choose a target folder on your computer to save the exported files, and then click "Go" to start recovering deleted videos from iPhone backup.

When the recovering process is done, you will get the videos in the target folder. The videos will be saved in their original format, and you will be able to view them on your computer, or import them to iPhone again.

Part 2. Recover Deleted Videos from iPhone 4/iPod touch 4 under DFU Mode on Mac

Leawo iOS Data Recovery for Mac now enables users to extract videos from iPhone 4 and iPod touch 4 under DFU mode. The following guidance will show you how to recover deleted files from iPhone 4 under DFU mode. You can free download the software to have a try.

Step 1. Run Leawo iOS Data Recovery for Mac and choose Recover from iOS Device. Connect iPhone 4/iPod touch 4 to Mac computer with USB and choose DFU in the pop-up dialog.
Step 2. Follow the tutorial and enter DFU mode on your iPhone 4.
Step 3. The program will communicate and scan your iPhone 4. When the scan is done, select the videos you need and click Recover. Click Open in the pop-up dialog to choose a target folder on your computer to save the files. Then click Go to recover deleted videos from iPhone 4 under DFU mode on Mac.

When the recovering process is done, you will get the files in the target folder. If you want to exit DFU mode on your iPhone 4, you only need to click Exit DFU Mode at the left bottom of Leawo iOS Data Recovery.

Leawo iOS Data Recovery is a helpful data recovery program for all iOS devices, and it helps to recover deleted files from iOS devices as well, for example, you can recover deleted iMessages from iPad with this software. If you are interested in it, don't hesitate to check it out.