Briefly:
* iPhone 7 plus, I think
* Last backed up Nov 2017
* Baby born shortly before Nov 2017
* 18 months of baby photos, not backed up
* Phone became disabled via ten password attempts
* No iTunes machine was previously "trusted"
* Phone is hers, has receipt etc
Is this recoverable without data loss? She doesn't care about the phone. She's willing to buy another phone and wait out quantum computing or some brilliant future hack. She is not willing to do a restore and lose her baby photos.
Does apple have a backdoor or a way to enable this phone? We also can't get it to connect to wifi--she attempted to up her iCloud size to allow a backup over wifi, which I thought was pretty clever for a non-technical person.
Any other ideas to recover the photos?
Thanks HN
Even then, unless she remembers the passcode the storage will still be encrypted and the data will not be able to be read by iTunes or anything else.
Her best chance is to learn from this and have backups in place in the future, and try to crowdsource photos of her baby from family members.
You can also checkout https://icloud.com to see how many of her photos are backed up on icloud.
We have tried syncing it to a new computer with the Apple ID and password, to no avail
”If you enter the wrong passcode on an iOS device too many times, you'll be locked out and a message will say that your device is disabled. At this point, the data on your device has been erased.
[…]
If you never backed up your device before you forgot your passcode, you won't be able to save your device's data.”
does the owner have a proper passcode? was "Erase all data on this iPhone after 10 failed passcode attempts" enabled? You can contact http://www.ipadrehab.com/, but it ssounds like owner deleted all data at this point.
iCloud maybe a better/easier way to recover some, but not all, data.
Source: I understand what you are asking and have done this several times for people.
There's an option to delete all data after 10 failed password attempts. I suppose she did not enable this? But even with it, it might be possible to restore the data using recovery software: https://www.anysoftwaretools.com/iphone-erase-data-failed-pa...
Source: Google
Louis Rossmann?
iPhone Jessa?