Restore WeChat photos from iCloud

“I need some of my WeChat photos urgently, but i couldn’t find them in my WeChat. how could i restore my WeChat photos from iCloud?”

When you be an iPhone user, you’ll be familiar with backup iPhone data in iCloud. Also Apple will recommend you do it, because you can do it anywhere as you like, only if your iPhone is connected with Wifi, and you don’t need to connect with a PC. When you lost some important iPhone data, like WeChat photos, you can restore them from your iCloud backup. Here, we’ll learn how to restore WeChat photos from iCloud backup.

Restore WeChat Photos from iCloud Backup Directly

When you have done backup in iCloud, we can restore your WeChat photos directly from iCloud backup. But it will need us to erase all content and settings before restoring, so we’ll do another backup of your iPhone data, in case some of your iPhone data are overwritten.

1.Connect your iPhone with PC, go to Setting--General--Erase All Content and Settings, when all content and settings are erased, go to set up assistant with a hello screen.

2.Swipe to begin set up progress, choose iPhone data to restore, confirm with “Restore”.

Then you’ll have your WeChat photos back.

Restore WeChat Photos from iCloud Backup with iRefone Selectively

If you don’t want to erase all your content and settings, and also want to preview them before restoring, iRefone is your best choice.

iRefone is a professional iOS data transfer and recovery software, it can extract iPhone data from your iTunes and iCloud backup selectively, and you can preview them before restoring. Also it can recover more than 16 kinds of files, like contacts, WeChat photos, messages, reminders, calendars, WhatsApp messages ect.

Now you can download and install the free trail version to have a try.



Step 1. Run iRefone, choose “Recover from iCloud Backup”, log in it with your Apple ID and password.



Step 2. When log in, all the files in your iCloud backup will show up. Click “Download” at the end of the files you need.



Step 3. After downloading, we’ll enter the new interface with many data icon and media icon that iRefone can recover, click “WeChat Attachment” icon, and it’ll be scanned by iRefone.



Step 4. After scanning and analyzing, you can preview and choose WeChat photos you need, tap on “Recover to PC”.