I restored my iPhone from a backup and apps were deleted, but the space they took is still unavailable on my phone?

I had to restore my iPhone from a abckup which I made last night, and when I did, it deleted all my apps. I don't mind, but the amount of space they took up is stilll being taken up on my phone, just in the "other" category. I don't understand why, and I will need to delete some of it so I can redownload the apps. How do I do this?

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Hello,
A friend of mine said she restored her iPAD but then set it up as a new iPAD and therefore nothing was actually restored and she lost the photos that were on the iPAD before the rebuild. She would now like to get these photos back somehow if possible.
She believes that she backed up her iPAD to her computer instead of iCLOUD so I was wondering two things:
is it possible to restore just the photos from a backup she would have done to her computer - did not backup via iCLOUD
if she can do the above is it possible to specify which backup to restore from - only ask because she might have done a backup since the rebuild and will want to restore to a backup done before this rebuild
My initial thought is that the only way she'll be able to get these photos back is to perhaps do a restore from backup - to an older backup if she can specify that - again because newer backup done will no longer include photos. Then she has her photos and can make a backup of them before rebuilding the iPAD again. A bit time consuming but if the photos are that important to her it will be worth it.
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is it possible to restore just the photos from a backup she would have done to her computer - did not backup via iCLOUD
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Photos in the Camera Roll, which are included with the backup, can and should be imported by your computer as with any other digital camera.
There are some 3rd party paid utilities that can extract select data such as photos from an iOS backup on your computer.

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