How to Transfer Data from iPhone with Broken Screen

“I accidentally dropped my iPhone on the ground and the screen was broken. The question is that I cannot access and save these data in it. Can anyone show me how to transfer data from iPhone with broken screen? Thank you for your help.”

For most iPhone users, the device contains many information and part of these data like photos, messages, contacts are important for them. If you have broken or smashed the iPhone, one of the first things you need to worry about is recovering and transferring data. If you are thinking of fixing the broken screen by replacing it with a new one, you may end up losing the data in it during the process.

Most people may ask that is it possible to transfer data from screen broken iPhone? It is pity that if your iPhone screen is damaged totally, which means you cannot bypass the “Trust This Computer” phase and cannot finish the transfer. The only way for you to transfer data from iPhone with broken screen is use iTunes and iCloud backup.

However, iTunes and iCloud only provide the methods to backup these data, not transfer. Then what you need is the professional iPhone data transfer tool, iRefone.

-This tool allows you to backup and restore nearly up to 16+ data on your device
-It allows you to preview and access Contacts, Messages, Photos in iTunes and iCloud backup
-It supports to backup your iOS device without overwriting old backups.

Below we will show you how to transfer data on screen broken iPhone from iTunes and iCloud.

Transfer Data on Screen Broken iPhone from iTunes

1.Run iRefone and choose “Recover from iTunes Backup” as the recovery mode. There will be some backup files listed on the interface. Choose the backup you need, click on “Select” or double click it.



2.Then it will ask you to choose the data you need to preview, just click on the icon of the data you need and the software will automatically scan and analysis your file.



3.After preview data in iTunes backup, you could select the data you need and choose recover to PC or device as you like.

Transfer Data on Screen Broken iPhone from iCloud

1.Choose “Recover from iCloud Backup” as recovery mode. Then you will see the interface below. Log in to iCloud account with Apple ID and password.



2.After log into iCloud account, the program can find all iCloud backup backup files in your iCloud account. Choose one iCloud backup you need to recover data and click “Download” to start the download of your iCloud backup.



Note: Once you click “Download” button, it will not start downloading directly. It will ask you select the data you want to download from the backup. This will need less time than downloading the whole data. Just choose the data category you need.

3.When the downloading is finished, it will ask you choose the data you want to preview as other two recovery mode. So, just choose and click on the icon.



4.The last step is also preview data in the software an choose these one you need to recover to PC or device.