Upgrading to macOS Catalina 10.15/macOS Mojave 10.14/High Sierra 10.13 will automatically make our Mac internal drive been encrypted. But the same as unencrypted drives, an encrypted APFS drive can also be formatted. We may format an encrypted APFS drive to clean up space, fix some errors, etc. But if we find there are still useful files on the drive after formatting the APFS encrypted drive, what should we do?
Actually, only with a reliable APFS data recovery software, we can still get those lost files back. iBoysoft Mac Data Recovery is one of the a few Mac data recovery software that can recover lost data from formatted APFS encrypted drive.
Tips for formatted APFS encrypted drive data recovery
After formatting the APFS encrypted drive, we should avoid making any further operation on the drive. That's because after formatting, the original files still remain on the drive and wait to be overwritten by new data. Further operations on the drive will write data to the drive and may make original files been overwritten. Once the files have been overwritten, we will lose the chance to get them back.
Recover lost data from formatted APFS encrypted drive with iBoysoft Mac Data Recovery
iBoysoft Mac Data Recovery is a APFS data recovery software that can recover lost data from formatted APFS encrypted drive, recover deleted/lost files from APFS drive,
Aside from APFS data recovery, iBoysoft Mac Data Recovery can also recover lost data from drives of other formats (FAT32, exFAT, HFS+), recover lost data formatted, unmountable, unreadable, corrupted hard drive, external hard drive, USB flash drive, SD card, pen drive, etc.
Steps to recover lost data from formatted APFS encrypted drive with iBoysoft Mac Data recovery
Step 1: Launch iBoysoft Mac Data Recovery and click "Find Lost APFS Partition" on the top right corner. Then you will see all connected hard drives.
Step 2: Select the drive that you have formatted and click "Next" button. The software will list all APFS partitions on the selected drive.
Step 3: Choose the APFS encrypted partition that you want to recover lost data from and click "Next".
Step 4: Enter the correct password and click "OK" to start searching for lost files on the volume.
Step 5: Preview the listed searching results, choose files you need, then click "Recover" to get lost files back.
Step 5: Go through to make sure you have all the lost files back.