iPhone 5s Marries iPhone 6s and Their Kid is iPhone SE?

Earlier on 21st, as Caption Cook stepped into the spotlight in Apple’s Cupertino campus, the rumor mill which had been spinning for half a year on the long-awaited 4 inch new iteration of iPhone finally came to a stop. Hooray, there we finally had it, not iPhone 6c, not iPhone Mini, nor iPhone 5se, but iPhone SE, which does match to one of the leaks just from last month!

At the first glance when it is unveiled, you won’t believe if not seeing it with your own eyes. The new iPhone SE has exactly the same complexion as iPhone 5s, with only one added color option of rose gold. What the hell is Apple doing? Why does Cupertino re-announce an outdated iPhone 5s? Well, if you tear it open, the truth is actually under the hood, at least according to Apple itself. Down beneath the shell, iPhone SE carries almost the same weapons found on its bigger 6s brother, which is also why they are advertising it under the slogan of the most powerful 4-inch smart phone the world has ever seen.

What Does that SE Stand for?      

As usual, Apple does not officially enlighten us why the new smaller iPhone is named under the SE tag, but people have imaginations! Among the internet talks, the seemingly most logical and persuasive one is the “Special Edition” and those who support this assumption have one thing in common. They believe Apple rolls out this most powerful than ever yet the historically cheap 4 inch iPhone with two primary goals in mind, one is to cater the male consumers who need to throw their phones into the pockets, and the other one is to steal the market share in the mid-range market especially from the developing Asian countries like China and India. This is to say, Apple calls it iPhone SE in the hope that it can accomplish those two special duties. Still, there are others who even put a joke on this, saying that the SE actually means the “Stupid Edition” or the “Sorry Edition”, because they firmly believe, while the entire smart phone world is going only but bigger, it is against the general trend and irrational to bring such a smaller screen up to the table. Who will ever give a second thought on a 4-inch smart phone once he already gets used to a phablet, let alone returning to it? Whoa, does make some sense, doesn’t it?

Despite declining for an official clarification, Apple does not try to keep their staff members from talking about it personally. Earlier today, a Twitter post from Apple’s Phil Schiller in response to Jason Cipriani from Fortune was spotted, and in that Tweet, Apple’s senior VP of worldwide marketing explained that “SE” is the abbreviation of “Special Edition”. Seriously, do you really feel how special the iPhone SE is, other than a 6s in a diminished size? Believe it or not, considering Phil’s position at Apple, what he said couldn’t be just joking.

What’s Apple’s Real Plan on iPhone SE?

As the world’s most valuable company and a company who puts more than 90 percent of the profit out of the smart phone sector into its own pocket, Apple never does anything out of no reason. Every single move, there must be enough homework done! It is no secret that the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs believes that the 4 inch is the perfect size that a single human hand can hold and operate without any obstacles. It looks like that his successor Tim Cook still has this belief. It is also believed that going to the 4.7 and 5.5 inch is against the original intention of Tim Cook in the first place, however, to prevent competitors from grabbing more market share, they just have to do what they are reluctant to, because there is no better option left!

A research on the active iPhone users from Mixpanel shows that there are approximately 30.22% of the users are on the 4-inch screen, among which iPhone 5s makes 20% contribution, iPhone 5 and 5c takes 7.53% and 5.66% respectively. This is the solid proof that not everyone wants to go big. Smart phones have life cycles, even the best made iPhones. So there is one day those small iPhone users need to replace their old ones, and to encourage them to upgrade, there must be a new model that gives all the bells and whistles. Sadly and unfortunately, the aging iPhone 5s is far from being able to carry the duty any more. This is maybe the number 1 plan for releasing the 4 inch iPhone SE.

Another plan for this could be, as aforementioned, the intention to break into the mid-level markets and to regain the waning market share especially from outside of the US soil. According to a smart phone OS share research conducted by the 3^rd party research company Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, Apple is gradually losing its market share to Android both in its native market and many non-US markets like Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Australia, Japan, Span and other European counties, with the only exception of China. Even Tim Cook himself admits that global iPhone sales might meet its lowest in this March. But, rationally speaking, no solid evidence shows that the international decrease in sales has anything to do with the screen size, after all, they already have the 4.7 inch 6 and 6s, and the 5.5 inch 6 Plus and 6s Plus out there drawing  potential large screen lovers’ attention away from Android.

Why Not a Brand New Design?

It is everyone’s belief that an all-new design will surely make it easier to usher in new customers. Why doesn’t Apple give the iPhone SE a completely new design? Since when does Apple finally learn the greatest philosophy that no design is the best design? Where have all the calls for inovation been gone? What have the most talented designers that Apple is notably famous for been doing in the past few months? Maybe the Cupertino company simply wants to leave their precious designing brains to the next-gen iPhone 7? Maybe they are still busying finding a better way to remove the 3.5mm audio jack? Sadly again, none of these seems to be a good excuse, the real one turns out to be quite pragmatic and realistic. As mentioned before, global iPhone sales are continuingly dropping, analysts are also predicting a sales bottleneck this year, plus the fact that Apple’s chain suppliers are indicating that Apple is significantly cutting off the orders on 6s and the Plus version, it is safe to assume that by skinning the iPhone 6s’ internals with 5s’ coat, Apple can destock the components they still have for both the 5s and 6s! Three birds with one stone! What a genius idea it is!

Another potential reason which Apple surely will not admit is that the iPhone 5s is so far the most beautiful masterpiece Apple ever created. Of course, truth or not, it is totally depends on users’ aesthetics perspectives. Look at the white bar at the top and bottom of 6, 6s and their Plus siblings, don’t they look ugly? How do you feel about the protruding camera lens? Well on the 5s and SE, you won’t see both. Perhaps Apple’s top geniuses have managed a way to ditch those two designing flaws in the next flagship scheduled for the fall event? Do wish they will nail it.

Will iPhone SE Make a Hit or Repeat the 5c’s Flop?

It is not the first time Apple tried to make a budget friendly iPhone. Almost three years ago, Apple made its first attempt to enter the mid-level or the entry level market by introducing the colorful iPhone 5c. Before that polycarbonate 4-inch iPhone came out, both consumers and insiders believe it would be a cheaper mid-range model compared to the then flagship 5s, however, to everyone’s disappointment, it came out with an astonishingly high price tag starting at $449 with the 8GB version. Considering the inferior specs and the lack of most new features that the 5s enjoys, the iPhone 5c eventually proved itself a total failure.

Obviously, Apple does learn one thing or two from its previous flop, which is why this time in its second attempt, they packed the SE model with most of the internals found on the flagship 6s, and priced it at a seemingly more compelling level, which starts at $399 with the 16GB version. In terms of features, the SE also shares most of the robust functions available on 6s, like the Apple Pay, near field communication (aka NFC), live photos, the 12-megapixel rear iSight Camera, the A9 chip with M9 motion coprocessor, and the 2GB RAM, etc. By spec-wise, it does feel like a compact phone, which looks definitely better than the plastic feeling 5c. The question is, will consumers buy it this time? It seems that its competitors from Android don’t think that way, and they are not scared by it either. Anyway, it is still too early to say whether iPhone SE will turn out to be a giant success, or it will simply repeat the 5C’s flop. After all, the shipment is not started yet. Guess we’ll just wait and see.

Resource from http://blog.dvdfab.cn/iphone-5s-marries-iphone-6s-and-their-kid-is-iphone-se.html

Best Alternative of AnyDVD

After Slysoft been shut down, many Slysoft loyal customers fail into the dilemma that whether they should go on buying legitimate DVD/Blu-ray discs without measures to protect their investments from being damaged or wasted as the main purposes for the purchase are to enjoy the content anytime they want in addition to collect discs which may be value-added in the feature. Of source, no! You can control your investment and you have the right to access the content you purchase and protect them legally.

Slysoft's ceasing is a pity in this market as it provides users the excellent service for years. However, even though it's gone, DVDFab Passkey for DVD and Blu-ray are still here waiting for you. It has gone through the same disaster, and it survived, and has gained a vast range of favor worldwide for its vanguard role and high efficiency in removing the protections embedded in all kinds of DVD/Blu-ray.

It never in the past, will not in the feature let you done. And it is not only the best alternative of AnyDVD, but will be the must-have in your life. Next, let's see how DVDFab Passkey for DVD/Blu-ray helps you remove protections simply and efficiently.

Step 1: Install DVDFab Passkey for DVD/Blu-ray

Download DVD Paskey for DVD/Blu-ray, and then install it following the wizard.

Step 2: Run DVDFab Passkey for DVD/Blu-ray

After the success of installation, get it run. Select the specific Passkey product you need, and then click the Start DVDFab Passkey button located at the bottom right corner of the interface to launch it. Once you click it, DVDFab Passkey automatically minimizes itself into the system tray, and detects whether there is a media in your drive.

Insert the source DVD/Blu-ray into the drive, and if there has been one in it, DVDFab Passkey will immediately begin the removal task. Only few seconds, all the protections and region code restriction will be removed successfully. And you can get the detailed info regarding the source disc and status from the interface when you open it, including the info for drive, what kind of protections are embedded in and removed from the source, etc.

Step 3: Succeeding operation

After the protections and region code restriction are removed from the source, you can play it with any player like PowerDVD, VLC Media Player, DVDFab Media Player, etc. And you can also rip it to your hard disc. To get it down, please just move to the system tray and right click on the icon of DVDFab Passkey, meanwhile there will be options including "Rip to Hard Disk". Click it, then choose the output target in the following pop-up window, DVDFab will immediately begin ripping the disc to hard disk.

Besides, you can also rip the source to Image which could also be started by the same manner: right click the icon of DVDFab Passkey, and click "Rip to Image". Notice that, if you tick the checkbox of Keep Protection, you will get a copy-protected ISO image file finally.

DVDFab Passkey for DVD/Blu-ray is a flexible and versatile decrypter, please pay more attention to the settings on the interface to get a better decryption.

Exclusive: DVDFab CinaviaRemoval HD review

DVDFab has released a new version of their software, with an additional capability that will be welcomed by their existing customers, and will certainly increase interest in their products. This new feature is the removal of the Cinavia signal found in many Blu-ray movies. They call their solution CinaviaRemoval HD and told us it has been developed totally in-house. In this review we're going to test if it indeed removes Cinavia and if so, how good the resulting audio quality is.

DVDFab was kind enough to offer Myce.com an early, developer's version of the program so that we could conduct a few tests. At the time of the tests, only one Blu-ray movie was suggested for the tests, so Cinavia protection may have to be defeated on an individual, case by case basis. But this is speculation on my part, as we have not been given any information on how DVDFab is working to remove the audio watermark.

Cinavia

For those of you unfamiliar with Cinavia, you should be aware that it is part of the official Blu-ray digital rights management, intended to impede copying of Blu-ray discs and copying of movies by camcorders in theaters. Cinavia is an audio watermark that exists in the normal hearing range, and detection of the watermark is done by the Blu-ray player, or officially sanctioned Blu-ray software player. All Blu-ray disc players introduced since March of 2012 must include Cinavia detection capability. Cinavia doesn't actually prevent making copies of movies, it simply provides a way to stop playback of the audio in ripped copies if you use a Blu-ray player.

Tests with DVDFab CinaviaRemoval HD

For the purpose of these tests, I downloaded the developer's version of DVDFab 9 and installed normally. The movie we were required to use is called Kick-Ass 2, and is known to have Cinavia prior to these tests. To make certain that my version of the movie had Cinavia, I ripped the entire movie to the hard drive and played it with Arcsoft TMT 6, which played it normally for twenty minutes, then muted the audio, and displayed the Cinavia warning.

We were advised to use Main Movie mode only, so I selected Copy and Main Movie as the two primary controls within DVDFab. Once DVDFab decrypted the movie, a pop-up window appeared with this message:

Though DVDFab advised that you need to click on the red Cinavia logo to remove it from your new copy, I found that the program was set to automatically remove it, with an X through the symbol already. Here is a picture of the control as it showed up.

You can toggle the Cinavia removal icon on and off.

To make my copy, I clicked on Start and waited for the program to finish. The resulting copy was approximately 22GB, down from the original 27.4GB. Kick-Ass 2 uses DTS-HD MA audio, and it was originally 1.57GB in size. The audio produced by DVDFab was LPCM and it came out as 3.31GB in size, which is not surprising when producing an uncompressed audio stream.

Audio quality

The real question at this point is, how good is the audio? My opinion is that it is very good.

Here are links to two clips, one is from the original audio, the second is from the LPCM audio produced by DVDFab. Both are from the same section of the movie and last about a minute. They are fairly large files, so be warned.

Original audio  (13.9 MB)| Audio produced by DVDFab (32.7 MB) (Use e.g. VLC to playback the audio)

Network usage

The next step I tried was to use the Blu-ray Ripper section of DVDFab to make an MKV file, but instead of converting straight from the disc, I used the ripped files I already had on the hard drive. While doing this, I noticed something in the program that I didn't expect. On the left hand side of the main window there is a progress report of what the program is doing. Here is a screenshot:

You'll notice that the first line says, "Downloading the required files...". I was working from a decrypted copy of the movie, so it shouldn't have needed the online database for encryption. Was the program having to make some other adjustment to output to AAC audio format instead of the LPCM found in the Blu-ray copy? In any case, the resulting MKV also had good quality sound, similar to what I've already heard from the first test. The AAC audio stream was approximately 330MB in size.

I did attempt converting a second movie, Pitch Perfect 2, which is also known to have Cinavia, just as an experiment. There was no indication from DVDFab that the movie had Cinavia, nor did I get a message saying the program was downloading necessary files when I started to make an MKV file. The resulting file had Cinavia still, but that was to be expected, since DVDFab had not announced support for removal of Cinavia from this movie yet.  We should note that Pitch Perfect 2 has been added to the list of supported movies, but that happened after we finished these first few tests of the program.

And now we add a little bit more information on the way the program works. I installed the program in my second computer. Working from a decrypted copy on the hard drive, I attempted to make an MKV file, using the same settings as I had done on my main computer. But this time, I disconnected the computer from the internet before starting the Ripper section within DVDFab. Fab indicated that the movie had Cinavia, and it would be removed. I got the same working messages, including the one that said it was downloading necessary files. But this time, it failed to remove Cinavia. Therefore it is obvious that the program requires an internet connection as part of the removal process.

Intrigued by this result, and after a hint from Seán Byrne, one of the administrators here at Myce, I decided to make yet another MKV file from the decrypted movie on the hard drive. This time I watched the network activity as the movie was being processed. It seems that DVDFab downloads quite a lot of material the entire time that the video is being encoded. It pegged out my extremely slow internet connection (6mpbs) while working on the MKV file. When the program reached 99% done, my network use dropped back down near zero.

I suspect DVDFab imports the audio in some form or another, much like the "database" files of one of its competitors in this field.

Is Cinavia removed?

And so we come to the last question. Did DVDFab successfully remove Cinavia when it was allowed to access the internet? I tested both the Blu-ray copy with LPCM audio and the first MKV file using Arcsoft TotalMedia Theater 6, which can detect Cinavia in virtually any format. There was no muting of the audio after twenty minutes of play, nor did the Cinavia warning show up.

I also tested both versions in a new command line tool that checks for Cinavia, and it reported that neither of my first two copies had the Cinavia watermark. Only the version made without internet access still had Cinavia.

So, I have to believe that DVDFab has worked properly for this particular movie. By the way, making me watch Kick-Ass 2 repeatedly while testing amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. I may have to ask for a raise around here.

Conclusion

It will be interesting to see how quickly other movies with Cinavia are added to the list that DVDFab can handle. But in this very early look at their program, it seems to be a success. There are some questions still on exactly what the program is doing...with no clear answer as to whether it is defeating the Cinavia signal in a new method, or is following the footsteps of other software that uses databases.

Article from: http://www.myce.com/review/dvdfab-cinaviaremoval-hd-review-78133/

DVDFab Cinavia Removal Solution - Cinavia Removed, Bit-Perfect Lossless Audio Produced

DVDFab provides users the top-notch technology and service despite the changing and replacement of fashion trend of video and audio along with the development of multimedia over these years. And it never fails in the hard-to-conquer issues and catching up with the newest multimedia technology flows like HEVC, 4K, Cinavia, etc.

Soon after Cinavia is introduced, DVDFab became one of the vendors firstly come up with the solution to solve it. And in these years, it never stopped in working out a complete solution to remove Cinavia. Cinavia varies, it develops. Then, finally, in the late 2015, it released its mature Cinavia Removal tool: DVDFab CinaviaRemoval HD with overall upgraded preloading technology of Cinavia affected sources, and enhanced output video and audio quality.

DVDFab Cinavia Removal HD is a product, and is also not a dependent product. It is integrated as a feature into its Blu-ray Copy and Blu-ray Ripper. That means, DVDFab CinaviaRemoval HD shall be worked with Blu-ray Copy or Blu-ray Ripper currently, which is enabled by default once it is activated and could be disabled manually in its Common Settings part. It supports not only Cinavia protected Blu-ray discs, but also ISO files and folders. The source loading and analysis process just takes you few seconds, and will prompt you with a window coming into your sight to tell you it has already recognized the Cinavia affected Blu-ray.

For Blu-ray Copy, it only supports Main Movie mode. And for Blu-ray Ripper, it supports almost all profiles. Whatever Blu-ray product you choose, the Cinavia affected audio tracks will surely be recognized and shown, and one of them is marked by default, which means it will be removed after the later processing. But only one Cinavia protected audio tracks can be removed in one Blu-ray copying or ripping. To remove other Cinavia protected audio tracks, you need to take the next operations. Besides the Cinavia removal, you can also enjoy the advanced features like Advanced Settings part and the video edit feature to set the video

and audio parameters and deeply customize the output video as usual.

What the most important is the result, DVDFab CinaviaRemoval HD can repair the audio track from the audio halted or muted trouble, remove the Cinavia protection and output a bit-perfect lossless PCM audio file that can fit for all kinds of players and devices. The output audio track which used to be protected by Cinavia is of overall enhanced quality that can give you more much superior movie experience.

DVDFab CinaviaRemoval HD is surely a wonderful and jaw-dropping solution upon the said-to-be unbeatable Cinavia, and according to its states in its official forum, more and more Blu-ray protected by Cinavia with which the Cinavia can be removed with CinaviaRemoval HD is developing. In addition, Cinavia protected DVD supports will be added soon as well.

DVDFab's Powerful Weapon for the Unbeatable Cinavia Anti-privacy Released

Over these years, Cinavia has been regarded as the paragon unbeatable anti-privacy technology to stop users playing Cinavia affected Blu-ray & DVD discs. Especially for senior Blu-ray users, Cinavia is not an unfamiliar definition after experiencing the annoying Audio track halted or muted situations followed by an error message coming into your sight when attempting to play the movie discs protected by Cinavia time and time again.


Cinavia is an analog watermarking in conjunction with the existing Advanced Access Content System (AACS) digital right management (DRM) inclusion of Cinavia watermarking detection support became mandatory for all consumer Blu-ray Disc players. The anti-privacy technology can well remain in the pirated Blu-ray desipite recoding, transcoding, compression and conversion, which as a result stops you from playing the discs and let alone other operations.
 

Some multimedia vendors are dedicated to providing solutions focus on removing Cinavia, but the results are still not the complete and mature solutions to beat Cinavia. DVDFab introduced the Cinavia removal solution five years ago, and successfully help users get rid of the issue. And it keeps moving on developing its Cinavia removal technology, then in the late 2015, it announced the official Cinavia removal tool: DVDFab CinaviaRemoval HD.



Currently, it works well in conjunction with its Blu-ray Copy and Blu-ray Ripper, repairs the Audio track protected by Cinavia, and output a lossless PCM audio file. The process is efficient, and easy to do, all you need is click on both the logo and the audio track affected by Cinavia, then there will be a red slash across the audio track, which means the Cinavia audio track you marked will be removed with DVDFab.


 

Besides, you can still customize the output video to make it more fit for your need. For copying Blu-ray, you can choose to convert DTS/PCM audio to AC3 and convert miniso file to mount the folder in DVDFab Virtual Drive if you have with DVDFab's Advanced Settings part. For ripping Blu-ray, you can set video and audio parameters regarding the output video with its Advanced Settings feature, edit the source like adjusting the video effect, trimming video, cropping the display area, adding watermark or external subtitles, etc. with its built-in video editor.



To remove the Cinavia affected audio track you marked, you only needs make one mouse click to hit on the Start button. Once it is triggered, the Cinavia removal processing begins. You can get detailed progress info as well as the elapsed time and estimated left time during the process.



By the way, due to the the output lossless PCM audio file, your disk space will be possessed to the great extent after times of Cinavia removal operations. DVDFab also provides you an option to temporarily delete the Cinavia repair data when all tasks are done to free your disk space.



The first batch of supported Blu-rays with which the Cinavia protected audio tracks, can be referred in the page linked with its product page. Other Blu-ray and DVD supports are developing and will be added soon.


Author Bio:Lydia Wang is a professional software reviewer, keen to share the great video tools, also pay close attention to the newest developments in multimedia and technology. More info about DVDFab Cinavia Rmoval Solution,Visit http://www.dvdfab.cn/cinaviaremoval_hd.htm

How to Remove Cinavia Protection on Blu-ray?

Recently, DVDFab announced its newest product: DVDFab CinaviaRemoval HD to conquer the hard-to-beat Cinavia protection trouble on Blu-ray discs. Thus, there is a complete Cinavia removal solution to let users be free of the interruption of audio halted or muted problem when playing Blu-ray disc protected by Cinavia.

As many users may be unfamiliar with Cinavia, it's necessary to introduce what Cinavia is. Cinavia is an analog watermarking and steganography system under development by Verance, which is a shaper anti-privacy technology that hamper and prevent the copying and sharing of Blu-ray and DVD filems.

DVDFab CinaviaRemoval HD works well in conjunction with its Blu-ray Copy and Blu-ray Ripper, now with it, you can get rid of the Cinavia restrictions, and smoothly play your Blu-ray discs and do next operations like ripping, copying. What comes more impressive is that the entire process to remove Cinavia protection is super easy. Let's dig in the detailed steps.

Step 1: Run the latest DVDFab 9, and get Cinavia Removal feature enabled

After completing the purchase of DVDFab CinaviaRemoval HD, download the latest DVDFab 9 or upgrade your previous DVDFab 9 to the latest version, and then activate it.

Following, run DVDFab 9. Before using Cinavia Removal HD, you need to get the Cinavia Removal feature enabled. It is super easy, just move to the top right corner of the interface and click the reverse triangle of Common Setting, then go to the Blu-ray tab, and tick the related two options.

Step 2: Load the Cinavia protected Blu-ray disc, and remove the Cinavia affected audio

There may be little difference depending whether Blu-ray Copy or Blu-ray Ripper you are using. If you use Blu-ray Copy, please choose Main Movie. If you use Blu-ray Ripper, then just choose the profile you need.

Next, insert the Cinavia protected Blu-ray disc into the Blu-ray drive, or navigate it through the Add buttons on the main UI. You can also simply drag & drop it into the main UI if it comes to be an ISO file or a folder. Then, a window with that message will come into your sight:

After the source loading, move to the audio track section. Select the audio track protected by Cinavia, and click on the Cinavia logo until there is a red slash across it.

After that, select the output titles, subtitles, output size you need, and select the output directory at the Save to part.

Step 3: Start to remove Cinavia protection

Now that you've selected the Cinavia protected audio track and set it to be slashed, then just begin the task to remove the Cinavia protection. Once the Start button at the bottom right corner is hit, the Cinavia removal processing is started. The processing doesn't require a long period of time, and after it is finished, you will get a lossless PCM audio track with the quality almost the same as the original one.

To be frank, though DVDFab CinaviaRemoval HD is an efficient solution, and you can get a lossless resultant audio file, there is a limitation of the supported sources. That is to say, currently, it can't support all Cinavia protected Blu-day discs. But others will be added soon. To know which Blu-ray discs are supported, please read carefully its product page inside DVDFab official website.

Recover the Lost Contacts Caused by a Failed iOS Update

Although not like the forked Android updates that come almost each month, if not each week (Actually there is one tailored Android OS called MIUI which offers weekly updates to its fans), iPhone users do receive iOS update pushes at least once a year. Performing a system update can bring a lot of goodies, like the added new features, the fixed bugs, and sometimes even the all new design; however, there are times when users experience unpleasant things during the update process.    

Among those unpleasant incidents, the most commonly seen one is dead screen of white Apple logo, caused by some mysterious reason which is still unknown to many. When people finally got the phone to be working like normal again, some of them surprisingly found that something was not right with the phone, like some of the Contacts were gone, and there was no way to get them back, simply because they did not make the phone in time for backup with iTunes or iCloud. Well, this is quite understandable, because they did not expect such thing to happen, or else, they would have done the backup thing.

So, are the missing Contacts gone forever? Not exactly! With an iOS data recovery software, there is possibility to get the lost data back. There are many such programs nowadays for such kind of un-expectations, most of which are shareware, meaning you have to pay a license fee for it to get working. Well, money is not the problem, the point is that the iOS data recovery tool should be able to help iPhone users who are suffering from the pain of data loss due to the unsuccessful iOS update to get the missing data back. As long as the job can be done, the money is well spent.

Normally, an iOS data recovery software does its job via three different ways. Among these methods, the first one is the most direct one, which is to scan the iPhone directly and analyze what is missing and then let users to recover the named data, like a Contact item, a short text message, etc; the other two methods are somewhat indirect, because they both require users to call in iTunes or iCloud, as the software will have to retrieve the lost data from a previous iTunes or iCloud backup file. Under the above mentioned circumstance, the latter two means simply do not work, because there is no iTunes or iCloud backup file made before the data gets lost. 

On the other hand, if there is a backup file made before data gets lost, then maybe the iOS data recovery software is not a must any more, as people can get the lost data back via iTunes or iCloud straightforward. This is true, but personally, I still prefer a 3^rd party tool, the reason is plain yet solid. iTunes or iCloud backup file does not allow users to selectively retrieve the only wanted items, but to restore the iPhone completely to a previous time point. This is quite unfair and not user friendly. While with an iOS data recovery software, things get better. It will allow you to choose whatever you want to recover, leaving the unwanted items behind. Some even let users make editing’s before actually perform the recovery, which is really wonderful.

At the end of this article, I would like to recommend one piece of such software, which does quite an impressive recovery job, and which not only recovers Contacts, but also other data including Messages, Call History, Notes, Calendar Items, Reminders, WhatsApp and Safari Bookmarks directly from the iPhone. The software is called DVDFab iFoneRestore and it is available at http://www.dvdfab.cn/ifonerestore-for-mac.htm.