Lost data after iPhone broken or water damaged? How can you restore the lost data? Don't be desperate! If you have an iTunes backup, you can use iTunes data recovery to extract the data without iPhone. 

Here's also an article about "how to restore iPod touch without iTunes".
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Thanks for this excellent iTunes data recovery tool, I recover all the lost data from my iTunes backup.

What if you haven't made a backup before, then you need an iPhone data recovery tool not iTunes data recovery tool.

With an iPhone data recovery tool, not only can you extract data from iTunes backup but recover data from iPhone directly. For the details, please check out these:
iPhone 5 data recovery (For iPhone 5S, 5C, 5)
iPhone 4 data recovery (For iPhone 4S, 4)

When you are about to recover data,such as recover iPhone contacts, photos, notes videos and so on, you are required to check whether you have the backup files already, iTunes or iCloud. If you sync with your iPhone every time, it is a big chance you can recover them from the last backup files.
If you wanna recover the earlier data or you cannot find the last backup. you'd better google some iPhone data recovery software to help you.

To perform iPhone 5s data recovery from iTunes, open iTunes and connect with your computer to sync it. On the left
column, locate iPhone on "Devices". Right click on the iPhone and follow by selecting "Restore from backup". Click on "Restore" from one of the versions of the drop down menu. Your data should be restored and you can unplug your iPhone.

Except from iTunes, you are also able to recover iPhone 5S data from iCloud and without backup.

iPhone Data Recovery can extract data from iPhone selectively, and it can recover data from iPhone directly, so, if i lost data from my iPhone, I will use iPhone data recovery instead of iTunes data recoveryhow to recover deleted text messages from iPhone 5