Restored new phone with old one lost all new photos/contacts

I restored my new iphone 4s with my old iphones stuff by accident as it was the first time i had plugged it into my computer and i had some photos and new contacts that i need and have now dissapeared and been replaced by my old photos/contacts, is there anyway to get my contacts and photos back that were on my new iphone before i did this?

Before you accidentally restored your new iPhone, can you remember if you have turned on Photo Stream and Contacts in iCloud? These are found at Settings > iCloud in your phone. If you have toggled Photo Stream on before, then toggling it back on now will push all your captured photos back to your iPhone in a Photo Stream album. Same case with Contacts. If you haven't done that before the incident, I don't think there is any other way to recover your previous data.

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I just came back from a family vacation and tried to sync my phone to my laptop. It didnt recognize my phone, and did i want to add device or restore to old device. i chose to restore and in doing so, i lost all the photos taken on our vacation.

i just came back from a family vacation and tried to sync my phone to my laptop. It didnt recognize my phone, and did i want to add device or restore to old device. i chose to restore and in doing so, i lost all the photos taken on our vacation. is there a way to retrieve photos? the completely disappeared from my iphone altogether. I am using iphone 5. I did not have any backup since I was about to download the photo. Please help me. Thank you

See:
Syncing to a "New" Computer or replacing a "crashed" Hard Drive: Apple Support Communities

HELP! I have some songs/interludes on my Garageband app on my Iphone. I was planning on using some for my bands album. Now my Iphone won't turn on and I'm being told to restore the phone. Have I lost all my Garageband songs?

I have some songs/interludes on my Garageband app on my Iphone. I was planning on using some for my bands album. Now my Iphone won't turn on and I'm being told to restore the phone. Have I lost all my Garageband songs?

Hi NWL1,
Thanks for the question. If I understand correctly, the iPhone won't update and is stuck. I would recommend that you read this article, it may be able to help you resolve or isolate the issue.
If you can't update or restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Have a great day,
Mario

HT4623 Recently updated my iphone 5 with IOS7 and lost all my photos - Help!?

Hi, I'm wondering if anyone might be able to help? I updated my Iphone 5 with this IOS7 update a few days ago and seem to have lost all my photos. I tried a 'Restore' and then 'Back up from restore' in itunes but the phone kept going round in circles. It kept asking me [on the iphone] to select either 'Set up as new phone' or 'Restore from icloud' or 'Restore from itunes back up.' I chose 'Restore from backup' every time and just as I thought it had finished, it asked me to do the whole process over again. This happened several times. In the end I chose to 'Set up as new iphone' and then I was able to do a restore but the photo's never appeared. I did get all my Apps, Music and Contacts back on the phone.
I spoke with Apple today and they seem to think I didn't do a backup before updating to IOS7. Normally my itunes automatically does a sync and a back up when I connect the phone and I will get a warning message to prompt me if not. I've searched for the photo's in my Pictures folder on my lap top but they are not there. I don't use icloud [don't quite understand it but I'm getting there!] and the Apple advisor checked my Apple account and couldn't find any of the photos there. I've even tried to download a program to scan my phone for lost items but there's still no photos showing up.
Have I lost these photos for good or is there any way of getting them back?
Any advice appreciated.
Thanks
Jane

Just to add to my enquiry above...
I have downloaded a couple of these programmes which say they can help scan for missing photos. One of the programs scanned my itunes and found photos from a back up this August. I could see quite a few photos on there [the ones that I'm missing] but these programs only let you down load 2 files [photos] unless you register with them i.e I will have to pay.
So why isnt this back up for August showing up in the list 'restore from back up' when I'm connected to my itunes??
Its so frustrating knowing that the majority of the photos I'm missing are actually still there somewhere. Why do i have to pay another provider to get them back??

I just did an iphone update and it made me restore to factory settings and I lost all my photos and music

I plugged my phone ino my computer to download more music and it said I had an update, so I hit the update button and it said I had to restore the phone to factory settings. I tried turning it off and getting out of the screen, but it wouldn't allow me to do anything other than restore. Now I lost all my photos and music = can I get anything back?

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When I did a restore from my daughters computer I lost all my photos.

Please help when I did a restore from my daughters comp I lost all photos,ps I'm not very comp literate

You can restore from iTune or iCloud Backup if you have one.

Whilst restoring IPod 4gen, restored to new iPod instead of restoring to named iPod - now have lost all files, photos - how can I restore the named account?

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Restore from backup. See the restore topic of:
iOS: How to back up
If you restore from iTunes backup you iTunes purchases have to be in the iTunes library. You can redownload them by:
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
Netiehr the iTunes nor iClouod backup included non-iTunes purchases.

I have just had my phone reset and I lost all of my contact information. Itunes will but its asking to synch other acct. how do i get my contacts to the itunes ?

Hello,
I just had to have my iphone reset and lost all my contacts. I see that there is a place now on itunes but its wanting to synch with either outlook, google or yahoo and I just want to put my contacts from my phone into a back up. Can this be done or do I need to get the moblie me in order save them?

You have not transferred photos from your iPhone to your computer for the past two years?
I guess these were not important photos, then. Because if they were, you would take proper precautions.
Avoid this in the future by following this article: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4083
Now, maybe you've got Photostream enabled. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4486
Best of luck. And next time, do backups of important data.

Have just updated phone with latest update and all my photo's have gone to internal storage. How do i get them back in my camera roll

Have just updated my phone with the latest update and all my photo's have gone to internal storage. how do i get them back in to my camera roll so i can view them on my phone.

Pictures are not designed to be kept in the Camera Roll... that is simply temporary storage for when you are taking pictures. Try reading this and this to see if it clears it up for you.

I plugged my iphone into my computer and it backed it up and restored it or something and i lost all of my contacts and photos and somehow got all of my goddaughters instead. what can I do to get mine back?

i think it went to icloud or itunes and i need my contacts back

Have you synced your iPhone with iTunes on this computer before? If not, nothing is selected automatically under the various tabs for your iPhone sync preferences with iTunes.
Was this the first time your iPhone was connected to iTunes on any computer? If so, the first time an iPhone is connected to iTunes for the first time that is used to sync with another iPhone or iOS device, you are prompted to transfer the backup for the other iPhone or eyeless device to the iPhone or set up the iPhone as a new iPhone. This is not automatic, it must be manually selected.

Lost contacts when restoring new phone with old phones back up?

I have just bought a new lap top and I have transferred all my files over to it. I backed up my I phone 3gs and then restored my new I phone 4gs with the back up. Everything went well except my contacts and apps are not on my new 4gs? Mail settings, old text messages pictures etc all there? Where can I find them?
The second problem I had is I downloaded the latest software on my I phone 4 it has lost all my contacts after finishing the download? Where have they gone?

If your contacts are still on your 3GS download the free app My Contacts backup on your 3GS. It will back up your contacts and an email attachment. Send this email to yourself and open it on your 4S. Tap the attachment to import your contacts to your 4S. Don't know what to tell you about your iPhone 4; your contacts there are probably gone. If they are the same as the ones on your 3GS, open the same email and import your contacts on your iPhone 4.

HT4623 I recently updated my iPhone 5 to iOS 6.1 and lost all of my contacts. My phone was less than 30 days old and I did not have an account with iCloud prior to the back-up. Any way to restore my contacts or are they lost forever?

I recently updated my iPhone 5 to iOS 6.1 and lost all of my contacts. My phone was less than 30 days old and I did not have an account with iCloud prior to the back-up. Any way to restore my contacts or are they lost forever?

I have the exact same problem. I did the update on my iPhone 5 yesterday, opted for the iCloud set up in the update and then it wiped my contacts. They are not on my phone or in the cloud...

I synced my iphone 5 with my computer and save all the photos to my phone through itunes. i restored my mac and lost all my photos on the mac but i still have them on my phone. how do i get them on my new mac now?

i synced my iphone 5 with my computer and save all the photos to my phone through itunes. i restored my mac and lost all my photos on the mac but i still have them on my phone. how do i get them on my new mac now?

how do i get them on my new mac now?
Be careful, when you connect the iPhone to your mac, unless you have saved the photos. Synced photos may easily be accidentally deleted by syncing again. And do not enable iCloud Photo Library (Beta), that will erase synced photos as well. Synced Photos are not included in the device backups.
Set your iTunes Preferences to "Devices > Prevent iPos, iPhones, iPads from syncing automatically". Otherwise iTunes may launch and sync your iPhone with an empty iPhoto library the moment you connect it.
Unfortunately, it is not possible to sync the synced photos back. Apple recommends to mail them back, but that would be a lot of clicking (iTunes: Syncing photos - Apple Support). You could also share them to a Shared Album, but a third party app like TD recommended, will be better.

Sir, I have lost my iphone4 yesterday. Before my warranty expires I bought a new piece in exchange with old one die to so software prob. I have imei number of my old phone but didn't remember new ones.How could I retrieve IMEI no. of my new one to traceit

sir, I have lost my iphone4 yesterday. Before my warranty expires I bought a new piece in exchange with old one die to so software prob. I have imei number of my old phone but didn't remember new ones.How could I retrieve IMEI no. of my new one to trace it.

You can't use the IMEI number for tracking it, you can only potentially do that if you had Find My iPhone enabled on it - if you did then you can try locating it via http://icloud.com or the Find My iPhone app on another iOS device.
For the IMEI number, do you have you got the phone's box or have a backup of the phone on your computer's iTunes : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4061 ?
If it was stolen then you should report it to the police. You should also change your iTunes account password, your email account passwords, and any passwords that you'd stored on websites/emails/notes etc.

I caught my phone 4. Had to buy a new one, lost all contacts, and calendar photos. how can I recover them

I caught my phone 4. Had to buy a new one, lost all contacts, and calendar photos. how can I recover them?

What does "I caught my phone 4" mean?
All contacts, calendars, photos etc should be on your computer as the iphone is designed to be synced to your computer.
Just sync them to your new iphone.
iPhone: Transferring information from your current iPhone to a new iPhone

Restored new phone with old one lost all new photos/contacts

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