Lightbox - recover deleted photos and videos from a backup

Lightbox and Private Lightbox are internal media libraries of ProCamera and are not part of the general iOS media library. If ProCamera is deleted, the contents inside Lightbox and Private Lightbox are also deleted.

  Warning

Before deleting or reinstalling ProCamera, make sure you have exported the files you wish to keep from the Lightbox and Private Lightbox folders inside ProCamera. 

To learn how to export files from the Lightbox and Private Lightbox to your iOS media library, read this article.

To find out how to export files from the Lightbox and the Private Lightbox to your computer, read these articles: Export to Mac, Export to Windows.

However, if you have accidentally deleted photos or videos from Lightbox or Private Lightbox, or if you have deleted the ProCamera app itself (for instance, in the process of reinstalling the app) without having exported the content of Lightbox or Private Lightbox to the camera roll/Recents first (iOS media library), you can try the following:

•  If you have lost your ProCamera app data and have an iPhone backup, please proceed as follows using dedicated third-party software. Please do NOT create a new backup. A new backup could overwrite the previous backup. If the previous backup includes the photos and videos in Lightbox and the current one does not, that’s not what you want.

There are several software options available that can restore files from an iPhone backup, such as iPhone Backup Extractor, iMazing, Dr. Fone, and iBackup Viewer. They all work on the same principle, so it's up to personal preference. We are not affiliated with any of these app developers. In this article, we'll be using the iBackup Viewer app for MacOS.

Download and install a software like iBackup Viewer.

To find saved iPhone backups, open iBackup Viewer app and allow the program to scan your computer. You can also specify the directory of an external device where your iPhone backup is stored.

Once the scanning is complete, choose the most recent backup (with the Lightbox and Private Lightbox data in it) and click on it.

 Tap the Applications buttons.

 Find ProCamera.app in the list of apps and click on it.

 Select the files you want to restore.

To export your files, click on the Export button, then select the Selected Files option. Choose the directory where you want your files to be saved (you can also create a new folder if necessary - in our case, we named it Lightbox Folder) and click on the Save to File button.

To export all files inside of ProCamera from your backup, simply click on the Export App Files button.

Select the directory for saving files (or create a new folder - in our case, we created the ProCamera App files folder) and tap the Save to File button.

By following these steps, you should be able to restore your files from the Lightbox and Private Lightbox folders.