You will then see all the photos stored in your iCloud. You can check it yourself: head to, sign in with your Apple ID and password and choose “Photos”. This way, the photos can’t be included into your iCloud backup – because they are not actually on your device! The good news is – they are probably still in iCloud. Your iPhone will only have thumbnails – small copies in low resolution. If your photos and videos were synced to iCloud (iCloud Photos was enabled on your device), the originals of your photos will most likely be stored in iCloud. How to get my Contacts, Notes and Calendars?.See alternative ways for restoring your data below: Therefore, they will not be included into your iCloud backup – it is formed out of local files.īut if your data was synced to iCloud – the chances are that it is still there. If you have your photos (contacts, calendars, notes, messages) synced to iCloud – like I do in the screenshot – their originals will be stored in iCloud, not on your device.
This is what you see on your iPhone, when your data is synced to iCloud: First of all, there is iCloud backup and there is iCloud syncing – and they are not the same. If you are here, it means that you have hunted down your backup with CopyTrans Backup Extractor, looked inside – yet found no data you needed? Do not worry, let us try to help.
