Photo Rescue Helps You Save Deleted Photos From iOS Backups

If you’ve ever lost a device, or feel like you’ve lost photos that were taken with your iPhone, you might want to check out Photo Rescue. The new Mac app will dig through all of your iOS backup files for you, and retrieve the photos you thought were goners…




The application is super simple. Once downloaded, just run the software and select one of the device profiles from the sidebar on the left. It lists all of the iDevices that have ever synced with your computer and corresponding backup dates.

When a profile is selected, all of the pictures that were synced that day appear in the Photo Rescue window. I was able to pull photos from an iTunes sync I did back in 2008, within a few seconds of opening the app.
Though the app worked well for me, there are a few hiccups. The software is currently only available for computers running Mac OS, so if you’ve got a Windows machine your out.

The program also can’t pull photos from encrypted iTunes backups. This wasn’t an issue for me since I just use the default setting, but if you’ve selected to encrypt your backups then this won’t work.

Nevertheless, it’s a great little app for what it does.

If you want to check out Photo Rescue, click here to grab it for free. The free version only displays the photos though, so you’ll have to pay $4.99 to get the full version if you want to use them for anything.