How to Recover Photos from Water Damaged iPhone

You may get your iPhone wet or even water damaged by accident, what makes you desperate is not only the device itself but also the precious pictures and other data stored in it, right? If this just happened to you, don’t worry, because in this post we’ll show you the quick easy way to retrieve photos from water damaged iPhone.

To help you retrieve pictures from a water damaged iPhone, a professional and smart iPhone data recovery program is of great help. There are so many different iOS data recovery tools in the market, and one of the most dependable ones is Joyoshare iPhone Data Recovery.
Joyoshare iPhone Photo Recovery software enables you to restore any lost data including photos from water damages iPhone XS, XR, X, 8, 7, 6, etc with highest success rate. It allows you to recover missing data from the iOS device directly, iTunes and iCloud backup. Besides photos, it supports more than 20 kinds of lost files for recovery such as contacts, text messages, videos, notes, WhatsApp messages and attachments, and many more. Other reasons that lead to data loss can also be retrieved such as accidental deletion, system crash, broken devices, iOS upgrade, etc.

Highlights of Joyoshare iPhone Data Recovery:

Recover photos from iPhone damaged by water instantly
Get lost photos back from iDevice, iCloud backup and iTunes backup
Compatible with a wide range of iPhone, iPad and iPod touch
Restore lost encrypted data with ease
Available for both Windows and Mac systems

Method 1. Recover Pictures from Water Damaged iPhone Without Backup


With the help of Joyoshare iPhone Data Recovery, you can recover photos from your damaged iPhone, as long as it still can be recognized by the computer. Follow the steps below to learn how to recover them with ease.

Step 1 Connect iPhone with computer and run Joyoshare

connect iphone to computer
First of all, connect your iPhone to the PC or Mac with a USB cable. Then go to the download page of Joyoshare and choose iPhone Data Recovery to download and install it on the computer. Launch Joyoshare and it will recognize your iPhone automatically.

Step 2 Scan iPhone for lost data

choose to recover from ios device
After Joyoshare detected your device successfully, it enters the "Recover from iDevice" mode by default. Generally, all the recoverable files are ticked. You can click the "Scan" button to scan them all, or just tick the "Photos" under the "Existing Data on the Device" column for scanning.

Step 3 Preview and recover pictures on water damaged iPhone

preview and select to recover lost files
When the scanning is done, select the "Photos" under the "Media & Docs" menu. Preview them and choose the ones you want to recover. Next click the "Recover" button to restore and save them on your computer.

Method 2. Recover Photos on Water Damaged iPhone from iTunes Backup


Once the computer failed to recognize your water damaged iPhone, then you cannot recover lost photos from the device directly. Yet it is still possible to recover data from iTunes backup file. The following part is the specific steps to recover data from water damaged iPhone, with no need of connecting the device to computer.

Step 1 Open Joyoshare iPhone Data Recovery

choose to recover from itunes
Launch Joyoshare iPhone Photo Recovery app and then go to the "Recover from iTunes" solution on the top menu bar. You'll see all the iTunes backup files you have here.

Step 2 Scan iTunes backup for missing pictures

scan itunes backup file
Select the latest backup file and then hit the Gear icon gear icon to choose the data types to recover. Then click the "Scan" button to ask Joyoshare to scan all data from the backup file.

Step 3 Recover lost photos from iTunes backup

start to recover photos from itunes
Wait a second until the scanning is completed. You can see all recoverable data including the missing photos. Preview and choose all or some of them as you like, and then press the "Recover" button to restore them to the local folder of your computer.

Method 3. Recover Photos from Water Damaged iPhone via iCloud Backup


If you have turned on iCloud backup on your iPhone, iCloud will automatically back up your data whenever connecting to WiFi. So, even if your iPhone is damaged, you can still recover data from iCloud backup file. Now let's see how to recover them step by step.

Step 1 Launch Joyoshare and sign into iCloud

choose to recover from icloud
Run Joyoshare first, and switch to the "Recover from iCloud" recovery mode. Then enter your username and password to log into the iCloud account. Joyoshare will never keep any of your private info.

Step 2 Extract a backup file for scanning

extract icloud backup files
After you logged in, all the iCloud backup files will be orderly listed here. Choose the latest iCloud backup file and press the "Download" button to extract it.

Step 3 Restore missing iPhone images from iCloud backup

recover data from icloud
After the downloading is done, all recoverable data will be shown for you. Tick the "Photos" box, preview them one by one or select them all. Then hit the "Recover" button and export them to your computer.

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