A more advanced app that lists all your backup files and displays all the photos for each backup in a thumbnail fashion, something like iPhoto. A simple quick app that pulls the photos of an iTunes backup file and drops them into a folder. So I looked for an app on the Mac that could do that, and I found two from where Padráig Kennedy as actually developed two separate apps*. Quickly, I realized that all those 200+ photos were imprisoned in the last iTunes backup I did, but it’s not a trivial matter to extract those photos, en masse, by hand. So after the restore, my camera roll was empty. What I forgot was that I don’t sync my iPad photos to the Mac. I sync my apps, Address Book, calendars, and a few movies, so I was confident that I could do a complete restore and get back to where I was. Recently, I had to do a complete restore of my iPad 2. Here are two quick and simple tools that can do that on a Mac.

There may come a time when you lose the photos on your iOS device, they haven’t been synced and your only recourse is to extract the photos from a backup file created by iTunes.

Extract pictures from itunes backup