Lost all pictures and video of baby! How to get them back?

My daughter plugged her iphone 4 into itunes on my computer and she accidentally hit restore and it restored her phone to my phone settings, etc. She lost all her 10 month old babies pictures and video. She is devestated. Is there any way to get them back?

MeAndMo wrote:
My daughter plugged her iphone 4 into itunes on my computer and she accidentally hit restore and it restored her phone to my phone settings, etc. She lost all her 10 month old babies pictures and video. She is devestated. Is there any way to get them back?
When you restore an iPhone the first step is a backup of the phone. She should be able to restore that backup.
Connect the phone to the computer, click on its name in iTunes, and click "Restore backup".
If she had backed up her phone to a different computer the pictures would be in the backup on that computer. If she had turned on iCloud backup on the phone the pictures would be in the iCloud backup. If she had enabled Photo Stream on the iPhone the images would be in Photo Stream. If she had transferred the photos and video to her computer as you would with any digital camera by connecting the phone to a computer and importing the images and video they would be on that computer. If she did none of these things and there is a problem with the backup that was made automatically when she did the Restore then they are lost.

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