Is PhoneRescue safe? Is it a virus?Ī legitimate question, given that to use PhoneRescue you may need to give it root privilege’s to your phone (if doing a deep scan) and the purpose of it is to scan and analyze everything on your phone. Fortunately the interface of PhoneRescue works well in that the files are categorized (“Call Logs”, “Messages”, “Photos” and so on) and you can search, so if PhoneRescue brings back the file(s) you’re looking for you should be able to find it. In addition to the files you’re actually looking for, it’ll probably bring back a ton of stuff you’re not looking for as well. You may be surprised at the volume of files that PhoneRescue brings back. Not bad! PhoneRescue was able to find everything on my phone, including tons of files I had previously deleted. As PhoneRescue tries to go through your files, popups will show up on your phone asking for you to grant permission:Īfter just a few minutes for me, PhoneRescue had then completed its scan: For the purpose of this test I just selected all types of files: Once PhoneRescue has detected that you’ve turned on USB debugging, it’ll ask you what files you want to recover. After a few minutes I found out how to enable USB debugging on my phone: In my case I had to Google how to enable USB debugging for my specific phone, since the instructions PhoneRescue gave me weren’t applicable (there was no “About device” option for me and so on). PhoneRescue provides some instructions for how to do this:

Once PhoneRescue has recognized your phone, it’ll then need USB debugging to be turned on in your phone for it to work. You’ll then be prompted to connect your phone to your computer via USB: This should be done within a couple of minutes:

Once you’ve downloaded the software from (only download PhoneRescue from there - nowhere else), open the installer and you’ll be prompted to install either the iOS or Android version:

In this review, I’ll test it on my own phone and PC, answer the main questions people are asking about it, and advise whether I recommend using it or not. PhoneRescue by iMobie is a tool for recovering data on your iOS or Android phone. Click here to visit the latest promotions page for PhoneRescue and enter the code OUTWITTRADE for 10% off (current as of 2021)

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