Extract Photos from iPhone Backup Files

When your iPhone suddenly corrupted, you may want to recover the photos backed up with iTunes. iBackup Viewer is the right app you are looking for. With iBackup Viewer, it is easy to recover photos from iPhone backup files in 3 simple steps

First of All, Get iBackup Viewer for Windows or Mac

When the downloading finishes, go to downloads folder, find and open the downloaded zip file, you will get a DMG installer file. Mount the installer and finish installation. (You can run the app from the installer, but not recommended).

Run iBackup Viewer

Run iBackup Viewer after installation, the app will load all available backups automatically.

You can switch among those backups by click the corresponding thumbnail, generally the wallpaper of the iPhone will be used as thumbnails for unencrypted backups.

Click on "Photos" icon,

Browser Photos and Videos of an iOS backup

iBackup Viewer provides two types of view styles for browsing photos.

1. Classic thumbnails view.

   

2. Organized by timeline.

   • Date range of photos displaying in visual area of current window
   • Sort photos by date time ascending or descending
   • Filter photos by range of dates
   • Export selected photos and videos
   • Save all photos and videos in current selected album or folder
   • Save all media files in the iPhone backup.
   • Cancel selection in timeline view style.

Switch view styles

To switch view styles, you can right click anywhere of the blank area in photos view, the context menu will show:

• Show File Names - toggle displaying filenames of the photos.
• Classic View - switch between thumbnails style and timeline style.

Export Photos from an iPhone Backup

You can recover photos of a backup and save them in various ways:

Individual photo

Selection of photos

Photos of a date

Photo album or moment

All photos

• Individual photo

  To export an individual photo, you can either right-click on the photo and choose "Export" from the pop-up menu, or

  • 1) click the circle at the top left of the thumbnail to select the photo
  • 2) and then click "Selected" button in the toolbar at the top to save the photo

  

• Selection of photos

  To save a selection of photos, you need to enter selection mode by two ways:

  1) Click the "Enter selection mode" button in the toolbar locate at top of the photos view.

  2) Click the circular check box when the mouse cursor over any of the photo thumbnail.

  

  Then click the "Selected" button in the toolbar after making the selection to export the selected photos.

• Photos of a date

  If you want to export the photos of a date, move the cursor to the date, an "Export" button will appear, click the button to save all the photos in current date bucket.

  

• Photo album or moment

  If you want to save all photos of an album, a folder or a moment folder, you can simply choose the folder (album) in the left panel, and then click the "Current Folder" button in the toolbar to save them.

  

• All photos at once.

  To export all photos and videos at once, simply clicking "All" button in the toolbar.

  Photos Preferences

  You may want to save the recovered photos or videos into folder structure by creation date of the media files. Or, you want to save the video files along with the image file for live photos. To enable these features, you can open the "Preferences" dialog, and switch to "Photos".

  

  Display Settings

  The options to control the view styles.

  1. Classic View Display media files in classic thumbnails view.

  2. Show File Names

  3. Show the photo count of folders and albums. Option to show number of media files in each folders. The value may be incorrect sometimes.

Export Settings

1. Save live photos into separate folders.
2. Save modified photo that applied adjustments.
3. Keep output files organized as original.
   • Create the folder structure based on date.
     • year / month - Save photos monthly, which will save photos into folder like 2025/03
     • year / month /day - Save photos daily, which will store the photos into folder like 2025/02/12

4. Save .HEIC as JPEG

   • Keep original .HEIC file when saving as JPEG Save both the photos in HEIC format and converted JPEG file.

   • Keep EXIF information Choose to keep meta data including exif if there is any in the original photos.