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pictures from dead phone

during hurricane..phone dropped/cracked/into water... had many, many, pictures from hurricane... of course power went out before pics could upload to cloud... anyway to retrieve the pics from the dead phone?


iPhone 8 Plus

Posted on Feb 4, 2020 1:21 PM

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Posted on Feb 4, 2020 2:00 PM

It's possible, but with liquid damage there's never any guarantee. And unless there is extremely minor damage, any reputable shop willing to do a data recovery repair is going to tell you that devices repaired after liquid damage never stay working for very long.


There are repair shops with a policy that they don't charge anything if they can't get any data with a more or less flat rate when they're successful. So a lot of times the simple fixes end up "subsidizing" the more difficult ones - as well as time/effort/pay for people to work on devices that are beyond repair.


Such repairs are not authorized by Apple and may affect whether or not you can seek an OEM service replacement. I've heard different stories about whether that may be possible after a a data recovery repair.

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Feb 4, 2020 2:00 PM in response to Omrmomo

It's possible, but with liquid damage there's never any guarantee. And unless there is extremely minor damage, any reputable shop willing to do a data recovery repair is going to tell you that devices repaired after liquid damage never stay working for very long.


There are repair shops with a policy that they don't charge anything if they can't get any data with a more or less flat rate when they're successful. So a lot of times the simple fixes end up "subsidizing" the more difficult ones - as well as time/effort/pay for people to work on devices that are beyond repair.


Such repairs are not authorized by Apple and may affect whether or not you can seek an OEM service replacement. I've heard different stories about whether that may be possible after a a data recovery repair.

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