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I know it's because of storage. I was in the process of deleting videos and photos when it crashed and went into a loop and couldn't restart. Is there a small recovery IOS I can download so that I can backup the phone then delete enough files to install the latest IOS? If not, can you create one or is there any IOS I can download or revert back to in order to backup all of my data? Thanks in advance.
iPhone 7
You cannot make a backup of data from iPhone that is no longer able to boot. Process you are referring to is called data recovery. There are no tools that can help you with data recovery.
You could try to connect your iPhone to PC or Mac and use iTunes (or Finder, if your Mac is on macOS Catalina), and try to update your iPhone while using iOS Recovery mode. However, you are very likely going to see prompt that if your iPhone cannot be updated to new software using iOS Recovery mode, the device will be restored first before new software will be installed (in such case, all data on it will be removed).
I know. I'm not talking about a data recovery tool. I need a small, skeleton iPhone IOS I can download and install with iTunes, or IOS prior to 10.0 that may be small enough to install so I can delete some files and backup. I believe iTunes Update IOS will work if I can download an older version that's small enough (comparable to starting up in safe mode on a PC).
No such option exists. All you can try to do is to update or restore your device via the iOS Recovery mode to most recent software available for you iPhone.
iPhone 7 - "The iPhone "iPhone" could not be updated. An unknown error occurred (14).
