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Iphone 7 Destroyed - Picture Download with no Connection

Iphone 7 destroyed (crushed). Still has power (feel home button push) & warms when charging. However when plugged into pc to download pictures (they are not backed up to iClouId) - get device plugged into PC has malfunctioned & not recognized by Windows. Any options to get the pictures downloaded or recovered?


Thanks.

iPhone 7

Posted on Jul 5, 2020 4:38 PM

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Posted on Jul 5, 2020 5:43 PM

The time for backups is before you need them.

Are you sure you didn’t do ANY of these ways of preserving photos?

  • iCloud photo sync
  • iCloud backup
  • iTunes backup
  • Transfer your photos to your computer via USB cable
  • Apple Photo Stream
  • Sync to Google Photos
  • Sync to some other photo archiving service such as Shutterfly
  • Sync to Dropbox
  • Sync to box.com
  • Sync to Microsoft OneDrive
  • Sync to Amazon Photos
  • back up to Livedrive
  • Backup to any other backup or archiving service

If the answer is no to all of the above your photos are gone forever.

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Jul 5, 2020 5:43 PM in response to j_mur

The time for backups is before you need them.

Are you sure you didn’t do ANY of these ways of preserving photos?

  • iCloud photo sync
  • iCloud backup
  • iTunes backup
  • Transfer your photos to your computer via USB cable
  • Apple Photo Stream
  • Sync to Google Photos
  • Sync to some other photo archiving service such as Shutterfly
  • Sync to Dropbox
  • Sync to box.com
  • Sync to Microsoft OneDrive
  • Sync to Amazon Photos
  • back up to Livedrive
  • Backup to any other backup or archiving service

If the answer is no to all of the above your photos are gone forever.

Iphone 7 Destroyed - Picture Download with no Connection

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