How to View and Retrieve Older/Deleted Calls on iPhone 8/7/6

Call history can sometimes be very important, especially when it can be used as lawsuit evidence. However, it is annoying that iPhone can keep over 1000 call logs but only show you the last 100; and only if you delete some of them that you can see the older call history. In this case, is there a way to view the older call history without deleting any of them? Actually there are some methods work the same way as recovering deleted call history. And this post will show you three tricky ways on how to view and retrieve call history on iPhone 8/7/6/5 by using a third party iPhone Recovery tool.

Trick 1: Retrieve older/deleted call history from iPhone.

Both the older calls and the recently deleted calls are still stored in somewhere of iPhone, though they are invisible to you, and you need some help from outside to see them. Gihosoft iPhone Data Recovery Software is a professional call history recovery tool for iOS devices to retrieve deleted call logs whether you have backup or not.

Step 1: Run Gihosoft iPhone Recovery on computer, and click on “Call History”.
Step 2: Connect iPhone to computer and scan it for call logs.
Step 3: Preview the scanning result and afterwards you can recover the deleted/older call logs onto computer.

Trick 2: Extract older/deleted calls from iTunes backup.

It is possible that your previous iTunes backup might contain some older call history. But considering the closed structure of iTunes backup, you can’t view the backup in detail until you restore your iPhone with it. Yet the iPhone restoration with an older iTunes backup will cause you losing other data which aren’t in that backup. Luckily the iPhone Call History Recovery tool allows you to extract and view call logs from iTunes backup. Just follow these step to retrieve older call history on iPhone.

Step 1: Run the iPhone Call Log Recovery tool and click on “Next” to “View iTunes Backup”.
Step 2: Select and scan your iTunes backup file for call history.
Step 3: View your call history shown in the interface, and then you can export onto computer or print it out.

Trick 3: Retrieve deleted/older call history from iCloud backup.

Compared to iTunes backup, iCloud backup always contains more important information like passwords, so it should be encrypted to protect those important data, which is safe but sometimes inconvenient for you to view the backup. However, if you restore your iPhone straightly with iCloud backup, you have to erase all content and setting on your phone, hence it is safer to view iCloud backup with iPhone Call History Recovery tool before the restoration. Learn these steps to recover older/deleted calls from iCloud backup.

Step 1: Launch the Gihosoft iPhone Call Log Recovery software and click on “View iCloud Backup”.
Step 2: Sign in iCloud with your Apple ID and download the iCloud backup.
Step 3: Scan and view the iCloud backup, and then you can extract them onto computer.

Here is a video guide on How to recover deleted call history on iPhone 8/7/6.