My friend recently moved in. Yesterday she deleted some photos on her iPhone 5s, and she wants to use my computer to recover them. But I think she will mess up with my iTunes. So I wonder if there is another way to recover the deleted photos on her iPhone. Could you help me on this? Thanks.

As is known, one iPhone only syncs with one iTunes library, and if the device is restored from another iPhone backup, it will get messed up. If the photos are deleted from iPhone and aren’t backed up with iTunes, then the users won’t be able to recover deleted photos from iPhone, nor the iTunes backup.

All the iPhone users may have developed very good habits of backing up iPhone, and they can easily restore the iPhone when the files get lost. Restoring iPhone with iTunes is easy to be done, and users can finish them in several simple clicks. So is restoring with iCloud. But when users restoring their iPhone with iCloud, they will find that iCloud asks users to erase all contents and settings on their iPhone before the restoring, and they may lose the newly added data in their iPhone when using iCloud.

So how can I recover deleted photos from iPhone on Mac? In fact, no way at present is available to recover deleted photos on iPhone directly. The iPhone data recovery for Mac on the Internet also cannot enable users to retrieve the deleted files on iPhone, but this kind of programs will help users to extract photos from iPhone backup to avoid the loss of the newly added data. And these iPhone data recovery programs can export the photos to computer in viewable files, so that the iPhone users can import the photos to iPhone again.

Among all the iPhone data recovery programs, Leawo iOS Data Recovery for Mac can be regarded as the most powerful one. This software is used for recovering deleted files from iOS devices, and extracting data from iTunes backups or iCloud backups. Leawo iOS Data Recovery can scan 12 kinds of files in the iTunes backups, and enables users to export the data to computer in viewable files. The following guidance will show you how to recover deleted photos from iPhone on Mac, 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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Part 1. Recover Deleted Photos from iPhone Directly on Mac

1. Run Leawo iOS Data Recovery Software for Mac after installing it on MacBook, and then choose “Recover from iOS Device”. Connect your iPhone to the MacBook via the USB cable. The software will detect the iDevice automatically and then a “Start” button shows up in the middle of the window.

2. After clicking “Start” button, an analysis of the iOS device will begin. After the analysis, the window of preview will show up. The categories of the files in your iPhone will be shown in the left sidebar. Click the certain category and the contents in it will be shown in the right part of the window. Check the files or category to recover, and then click “Recover” button at the right bottom of the window.

3. After clicking “Recover” button, the dialog of choosing target folder will pop up. Click “Open” to select a folder to save the exported files, and then click “Go” to start recovering deleted photos from iPhone on Mac. Check “Automatically open the output folder after finishing recover” if an immediately management of the exported files is needed after the recovery.

Part 2. Scan and Extract Photos from iTunes Backup on Mac

Select Recover from iTunes

Select Recover from iTunes

Run Leawo iOS Data Recovery for Mac and choose Recover from iTunes Backup.

Select Recover from iTunes

Scan iPhone Backup

Select the iPhone backup and click Scan at the right bottom.

Scan iPhone Backup

Select Photos to Recover

Check Camera Roll/Photo Stream/Photo Library and select the photos you need. Then click Recover.

Select Photos to Recover

Choose Target Folder

Click Open in the pop-up dialog to choose a target folder on your computer. Then click Go to start recovering deleted photos from iPhone backup on Mac.

Part 3. Scan and Extract Photos from iCloud Backup on Mac

Choose Recover from iCloud

Choose Recover from iCloud

Run Leawo iOS Data Recovery for Mac and choose Recover from iCloud Backup.

Log in with Apple ID

Log in with Apple ID

Enter your Apple ID and log in.

Select iPhone Backup

Select iPhone Backup

Select the iPhone backup and click Download at the right bottom.

Select Photos to Extract

Select Photos to Extract

After the program downloaded the backup, check Camera Roll and select the photos you need.

Choose Target Folder

Choose Target Folder

Click Open in the pop-up dialog to choose a folder on your computer. Then click Go to recover deleted photos from iPhone on Mac.

When the recovering process is done, you will get the photos in the target folder. The photos can be imported to your iPhone 6 again with no efforts. All these methods are helpful for the users who want to know how to recover deleted photos from iPhone on Mac. If you come up with the loss of photos in your iPhone, just check these methods out.