My phone froze up and required a restore factory settings - lost everything! Now itunes cant find any information or connect my phone for a backup. PLEASE HELP
I was on my IPhone today and it randomly froze up. The in requested a factory reset. I back up my phone all the time but now that I go to ITUNES its indicating my phone can not be located and I have lost everything! What can I do to retreive this information back. Mainly my contacts (very important information in there).
PLEASE HELP!
If the information wasn't backed up (as it should have been) then there's no way to recover it. When a phone is in recovery mode like yours is, all data are gone.
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