How to Recover Deleted Videos from Your iPod Touch

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Much more than a simple personal music player, the iPod Touch can also be used to record and store videos on your device. From 1st birthday parties to fun times with your friends, the videos on your iPod Touch capture some of the most important moments in your life.

If you have accidentally deleted videos from your iPod Touch or an OS update has gone horribly wrong, causing data loss, the first place you can check to see if these can be recovered, is the ‘Recently Deleted’ folder, which keeps deleted photos and videos for up to 30 days (unless you delete them manually from this folder as well).

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If you’ve accidentally pressed the wrong button and lost an important video, then this is a great, quick option to recover it.

If however, you have deleted videos from the ‘Recently Deleted Folder’ or the 30 day period has lapsed and they are no longer in the folder, then you can turn to Enigma Recovery software. This innovative solution will enable you to recover deleted videos from an iCloud or iTunes backup file, made before you deleted the videos from your device.

The software is completely secure, and will not cause any damage to your iPod Touch or to your data. It is a great solution if you’re worried that your important videos are gone forever. Choose from the tutorials below to recover your deleted videos now!

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How to Recover Videos From Your iPod Touch

It’s happened to the best of us – an accidental tap on the wrong button or our devices failing during an update – and all of a sudden you have lost very important data. Of all of the functionality offered by the iPod Touch, losing or accidentally deleting videos is one of the most upsetting, as they are often irreplaceable captures of a moment, and may be the only copy in existence.

As luck would have it, there are some options available if you have deleted important videos from your iPod Touch. Firstly, you should check the ‘Recently Deleted’ folder on your iPod Touch. Added by default to all devices on iOS 8 or higher, and available to older devices which can upgrade to iOS 8 or higher, the ‘Recently Deleted’ folder is a great quick fix for those of us who instantly realise that we have deleted the wrong video and need to recover it.

Looking through the ‘Recently Deleted’ folder, you can find videos which have been deleted in the last 30 days. You can also use Enigma Recovery software to find and view these deleted videos.

If however, you have realised too late that a precious video is gone, or a device malfunction has wiped all of the data on your iPod Touch, there are other options for recovery, using either an iCloud or iTunes backup file and Enigma Recovery software.

You Will Need:

iPod Touch
Enigma Recovery software (the free or full version)
A Mac or Windows computer

Steps:

Step 1 – Open Enigma Recovery

Open the software and select a device to recover from (iOS).

Step 2 – Connect iPod

Now connect your iPod to the computer, using your USB cable.

Step 3 – Trust Computer

Follow the instructions that appear to ‘Trust’ the computer with your device.

Step 4 – Scan device

Select the data type you are looking for (or Select all). Then click ‘Start scan’.

Step 5 – Scan Report

After the scan, the software will let you know how many existing and deleted files have been found. Click a data type to view your recovered items.

Step 6 – View deleted Videos

After the scan, you will see a scan report telling you how much data has been retrieved. Click the ‘Videos’ tab to view your videos.

Step 7 – Export and save Videos

To save all videos click Export > Export current tab > Export.

That’s it!

We hope you’ve had success retrieving your data. If you have any questions, please contact our support team here. We’re always happy to help!

How to Recover Videos From Your iPod Touch iTunes Backup File

When your iPod Touch is lost, stolen or faces the dreaded ‘white screen of death’, one of the scariest thoughts is the amount of data that you stand to lose access to. As we place more and more importance on our digital devices, we have come to rely on them to capture and store some of the most significant moments in our lives.

If you have lost or deleted videos from your iPod Touch, then Enigma Recovery software can help you retrieve it. Even without your physical device, or if the device won’t turn on, you can still access and extract the data from your iTunes backup file using Enigma Recovery. The software can scan backup files created by iTunes and display deleted messages, photos, videos, notes, contacts and much more.

Follow our simple guide below to recover deleted videos from an iTunes backup file. Please note that if you are using this method of recovery, you will need to select a backup file that was created from your device, before you deleted the data from your iPod Touch. This is due to the way that a device needs to be manually synced with iTunes.

You Will Need:

The free or full Enigma Recovery software
An iTunes backup file
A Windows or Mac computer

Steps:

How to Recover Videos From Your iPod Touch iCloud Backup

When you’re at an event with friends, a concert or decide to spontaneously capture the moment, having your iPod Touch on hand is a convenient way to take a quick video. We recommend that whenever you have an important video on your iPod Touch that you would hate to lose, that you make a backup of your device.

This might sound like a lot of effort, but with iCloud, you can set up automatic backups of your device, so iCloud will take backups of your iPod Touch when you are connected to a power source and Wifi. Trust us; in the long run you’ll be thanking yourself for taking the time to set this up!

For those of you who have already listened to the advice out there about backing up your iPod Touch to iCloud and have since deleted important videos from your device, you can now recover them with Enigma Recovery. This innovative software can access iCloud backup files (with your login details), and extract and display the data stored in the file, even if it has since been deleted from your device! So what are you waiting for? We know how important the videos on your device are to you. Use our simple guide below to instantly recover deleted videos from an iCloud backup.

You Will Need:

The free or full Enigma Recovery software
An iCloud backup file
Your iCloud login details

Steps:

How to Transfer Lost, Deleted or Existing iPod Touch Videos to Your Mac or PC

Within the video album on your iPod Touch, you’d be likely to find some great memories with your friends and family. However, when it comes to available storage on your device, videos are one of the biggest culprits when it comes to taking up precious space. If you don’t want to permanently erase the videos you’ve captured, an alternative solution is to transfer them to your Mac or PC, using Enigma Recovery software.

The software will first scan your iPod Touch for existing videos and display them to you on your Mac or PC. From there, you simply need to select which videos you’d like to export to your computer and wait whilst the software completes the transfer using a secure process. It is a completely safe process and your videos will not be damaged. Once the transfer is complete, you can delete the videos from your device (we also advise that you make a full backup of your device), safe in the knowledge that you can watch the videos anytime you wish, on your Mac or PC.

Transferring data is also a great solution if you have lost or accidentally deleted videos from your iPod Touch. Enigma Recovery can also scan iTunes and iCloud backup files, searching for deleted videos that no longer exist on your device. Once it has found these, you can transfer the videos to your Mac or Windows computer for safekeeping. This means that even if you carry out an iTunes or iCloud backup, you do not run the risk of permanently overwriting and deleting precious videos, as you will always have your backup copy on your PC or Mac.