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Recovery of deleted portion of iphone video

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(@aguy09)
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Hoping I can get some advice.

I need to recover an approximately three minute portions of a video that was deleted from a video by editing. The first minute of the video remains on the Iphone 5.

In researching the issue it seems the consensus is that data carving to find deleted files is currently not possible for this phone as a result of encryption. I'm wondering if my situation might be different because only part of the file was deleted. Would having the remaining portion of the video allow identification and decryption of the data?

The phone is setup for icloud backup and there is the possibility that the video was backed up before the edit and not since then. If so, what is the recommended process for recovering the file?


   
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(@rampage)
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The carving problem is not due to the encryption but most likely because as of now there seems to be no way to perform a physical dump of the device in a forensically sound manner.

the videos are stored in the backup as long as they are in the camera roll domain.

I'm not any familiar with icloud backup but maybe if you have the credentials you can access the online storage and recover the informations you need.

it might be a bit "dirty" to do,
but if you have the iCloud account information and a new iPhone you can restore a backup from icloud on a spare device for content examination.

http//support.apple.com/kb/HT4859

maybe there are other ways, but as said before, i'm not aware of them, and yet i'm curious to hear from others on this board who know more on the topic )


   
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