Since apple first added iCloud(now iCloud Drive) to iOS 5, it has become the most common cloud storage service on iOS devices and mac computer. We use it to store and sync files between iPhone, iPad and Mac computer. To reduce the local storage space of iPhone or Mac, we put more and more items into iCloud storage. If we accidentally deleted the files from the iCloud hard drive, is it possible to retrieve them? We are here to discuss how to retrieve and recover deleted files from the iCloud drive.
You may know that iCloud drive has a mechanism like a Trash, named Recently Deleted folder. It will keep the deleted items within 30 days, and these items will be deleted more than 30 days. Here we will introduce how to retrieve and recover those item within 30 days or expiration.
1. From iPhone device
Open Files app on your iPhone, tap the Browse tab on the bottom. Access the Recently Deleted under Locations tab. All deleted items will be listed in view. You can click the "select" button -> and then select the item's check button and click the "restore" button to retrieve it.
2. From iCloud website
1. Visite www.iCloud.com and login with your Apple ID account. Choose Settings in Launchpad view.
2. Click Restore Files under Advanced tab.
3. The deleted files from iCloud Drive will be listed in table. You need select them and click "Restore" button to recover them to iCloud Drive.
If you need to retrieve and recover the deleted Contacts, Calendars, Reminders, Bookmarks, just choose the different option under Advanced tab to recover them. If you need to recover the deleted iPhone messages or photos, you need the third-party iPhone recovery app to recover from iTunes, iCloud backup or iPhone device.
But if you can't find the delete items in iCloud Drive or they have been permanently deleted over 30 days. How to retrieve and recover them? Here's the solution.
3. With Fireebok Data Recovery
iCloud Drive to synchronize with the iCloud server, the mac computer stores the iCloud data on your local computer. The location is ~/Library/Mobile Documents, when you add, remove, edit file in iCloud drive, all the changes have been synchronized here to iCloud. As we known, the file system just makes a delete flag on the disk, before the original data has been overwritten by other new data. Here we use Fireebok Data Recovery to recover the deleted files under ~/Library/Mobile Documents on your disk.
Fireebok Data Recovery has five scan modes: Deleted Recovery, Deep Recovery, Volume Recovery, Lost Volumes Recovery, Create Image Backup. Here we use the Deleted Recovery or Volume Recovery mode to recover the deleted files from iCloud Drive.
First download Fireebok Data Recovery to your computer
- Data Recovery
Recover data lost due to accidental deleting, formatting, virus infection,
and other unknown reasons.
Step 1: Launch the program and Select the Macintosh HD volume. Choose "Deleted Recovery" and click "Start Scan" button
Step 2: Preview the scanning result, find the Mobile Documents folder and click "Recover" to save.
Tip:When you recover the files to the computer, you need save them to a different external disk or USB device to avoid overwriting the original data.
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