Possible to recover lost bitWallet wallet file from iCloud?

[Valence]

I'm trying to help a friend recover bitcoins that were sent to an address in his bitWallet iPhone app. He switched to a new phone and wiped his old one, and when he restored from the iCloud on his new phone the bitwallet app had a new wallet that doesn't have the bitcoins in it. Unfortunately he had not backed up the wallet file. I'm not at all familiar with anything to do with Apple and I haven't been able to find a way to regain access to the address. I had him restore from an earlier backup but that didn't work. Apparently the iCloud only saves apps and contacts, it doesn't back up all the data on the phone.

I'm just wondering whether it would be possible to search his iCloud backups for the wallet file (I don't even know what the wallet file is called in bitWallet) in hopes of finding it that way. Otherwise, would data recovery on the old phone be a way to regain the wallet file? Any recommendations on data recovery software or services to try?

 

[zerogear]

If it didn't get restored, it probably didn't get backed up. You'll need to go for a professional recovery, which might cost way more than the wallet itself, since iOS doesn't have an open file system.

 

[Valence]

Thanks, I figured it'd be gone if restore didn't bring it back. It's $500 worth of bitcoins, how much would the recovery cost?

I just told him to go to an Apple store and see if they had any ideas. He's not the most tech-savvy guy, can't believe he sent bitcoins to an address from a phone he had just wiped.