iPhone locked/disabled - help please!

Thank you for replying.

I did manage to get to the recovery mode with my iPhone showing in finder. The first time I did it, it said it was downloading and it was circling in the left column next to iPhone. The second time it said it was downloading but was not circling. Both times when it finished, my iPhone disappeared from Finder and my iPhone screen again shows Disabled, connect to iTunes.

The second link, I have no error message. Under, if you use a Mac: Connect your iOS or iPadOS device and make sure that it's unlocked and on the Home screen cannot be done because I am locked out.

I only have a Mac. The tests I did with Windows 10 was with a friends computer so checking the driver I would imagine would not help.

I just saw that it said " If it takes more than 15 minutes, your device will exit recovery mode and you'll need to repeat steps 2-4." I missed that, so will try again and again until it completes. I have to go out but will continue when I get back. I will let you know how it goes.

I tried 9 times because I remember reading someone said he kept doing the same thing and he has no idea why, but it eventually worked. Every time it ends with my iPhone disappearing from Finder and my iPhone disabled notice again.

On the 6th try it showed: The software for the iPhone was corrupted during download. Disconnect and re-connect.

Other than that, no change.

I agree. I live on a small island and the person who could probably help is out with a flu so in desperation I am on my friends Window 10 with iTunes computer and I think it might be restoring but I am not sure - iTunes is showing the download circling, so fingers crossed. I will let you know

The download took a long time but my iPhone disappeared from iTunes and my screen said the same "Disabled...".

I tried to update the Apple driver but that did not show with my mobile connected. I was curious so I plugged in an iPhone SE and the drivers showed, so I updated them. After that I plugged in my iPhone 7 again and it showed "iPhone recovery mode- iTunes is preparing to restore the software on this iPhone". When that was done "Extracting software" showed.

In the end it worked! I plugged my mob into my Mac and restored from my last backup. All is as it should be :D

I hope this helps anyone who might have the same problem.

Help please someone...