Losing data is something that everyone doesn’t want to experience, yet when this bad thing eventually happen to you, it doesn’t your life is over. With an appropriate tool, there is always a chance to get your lost data back. If you use Mac, iBoysoft is one of the appropriate tools you can use.

iBoysoft is a free Mac data recovery software which you can use to recover deleted files on your Mac. It has an easy-to-use interface and supports a wide range of file types. You can use this tool to recover files like images, documents, audios to emails. Not only iBoysoft can scan the hard drive installed on your Mac, but also external hard storage mediums like portable hard drive and SD card.

How iBoysoft works

Before getting started to recover your files, you might be wondering how can deleted files be restored. In most file systems, the actual data of the file you have deleted is not really deleted unless overwritten by the addition of another file. iBoysoft works by scanning your Mac hard drive to check if the files you want to recover are still around. If iBoysoft succeed finding the files you meant, you can recover them. iBoysoft itself offers two scanning method: quick scan and deep scan.

You can use the “quick scan” option (without ticking the “deep scan” option) to scan newly deleted files. If the scanning results don’t show the files you meant, you can try rescanning by ticking the “deep scan” option. One thing, “deep scan” can take longer, particularly if you have a large capacity hard drive on your Mac.

Supported macOS versions and file systems

Your Mac device has an operating system called macOS. Each operating system, including macOS, has a file system to control how data is stored in a hard drive. Since the release of High Sierra (10.13), macOS has been using APFS to replace HFS+. Both APFS and HFS+ are supported by iBoysoft. In addition, this free data recovery software also supports other file systems, including HFSX and HFS. The latest release of iBoysoft even also support encrypted APFS data recovery.

• Supported macOS versions: macOS 10.14 (Mojave), macOS 10.13 (High Sierra), macOS 10.12 (Sierra), Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan), Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite), Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks), Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion), Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion).
• Supported file systems: APFS, HFSX, HFS, HFS+, exfat and FAT32.

Note: Mac OS X is the former name of macOS

Key features

iBoysoft is extremely easy to use because it has an intuitive interface. You can use this tool even if you haven’t done the job of restoring deleted files before. In addition to the hard drive installed on your Mac device, this tool can also be used to restore deleted files on other storage devices like USB hard drives, USB flash drives, SD cards, and so on.

iBoysoft is capable of restoring files caused by formatted drive, corrupted, unmountable, unreadable, inaccessible, and so on. It comes with a preview feature to allow instantly preview the files before selecting them to be recovered.

One key thing you need to know regarding the data recovery process in case you haven’t done it before. It takes time for a data recovery tool to scan your hard drive. Especially if the hard drive you want to scan has a large capacity.

The iBoysoft data recovery tool for Mac will put together the scanning results according to the file type. From photos, videos, audios, documents, and emails. You can jump to one of these categories if you already know the type of files you want to recover to save time.

How to use iBoysoft

iBoysoft automatically detects all storage devices connected to your Mac. For instance, if you want to recover files from an external hard drive, you can simply connect your external hard drive to your Mac and launch the iBoysoft app. Once the iBoysoft app is open, select the drive to scan and click the Next button (make sure to select a drive where you want to recover the files from).

You can check the “Deep scan” option on the bottom-left corner if you want to recover older deletions. But again, this can take more time. The scanning duration is vary depending on the size of the drive that is being scanned. For instance, it might takes up to 2 hours to scan a 500GB drive on the deep scan mode.

Once the scanning process is done, iBoysoft will display the results. This time is your turn to select which files you want to recover. You can take advantage of the preview feature to preview the content of each file you want to recover. To start recovering, simple select files you want to recover and click the Restore button. If you want to recover all of the scanned files, simple click the folders on the left panel.

After clicking the Recover button, iBoysoft will ask you to select a folder destination where you want to restore the files.

The verdict

iBoysoft could be your savior if you accidentally deleted important files. iBoysoft is a data recovery tool for Mac that has an easy-to-use interface. This tool can run on all macOS versions. From OS X Lion (version 10.7) to the latest version of macOS, Mojave (version 10.14). Not only iBoysoft can recover deleted files on your Mac drive, but also external storage devices such as external hard drives, SD cards, USB flash drives, and so on. As long as the file system of the storage device you want to recover the files from is supported by iBoysoft. The file systems supported by iBoysoft are APFS, HFSX, HFS, HFS+, exfat and FAT32.

You can use iBoysoft for free, but can only recover the files with the total maximum size of 1GB. Premium version is available if you want to recover more files.