iPhone touch screen broken while phone is in airplane mode. Can I still recover my photos not yet backed up to iCloud?

Hello all!


I recently dropped my phone while out camping and broke the touch screen. The phone was in airplane mode at the time as I was outside of my service range, and is now stuck in airplane mode as the screen is black (yet still backlit) and not responding to touch. I tried force restarting but I can’t tell if its turning off/on. Tried connecting to my MacBook via usb once I got home to try and back up what photos I took while camping but realized I cannot click nor see the the “trust this computer” prompt on the phone as the screen is broken...


Is there any way to recover my photos/videos that had not yet been backed up to iCloud since I was not connected to data/WiFi before I broke the screen? Once the phone finally runs out of battery will airplane mode still be enabled once I re-charge it? Or am I gonna be forced to just repair the phone screen before I can back up photos to iCloud?


Thanks!

iPhone 8 Plus, iOS 13

Posted on Jul 16, 2020 9:00 PM

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Jul 17, 2020 1:09 AM in response to KristinasKool

Regarding your data, If…

  1. You have an iCloud or iTunes latest backup, then there is nothing to worry. If not read more...
  2. You have synced your data to iCloud, then what you will get back is what you have synced to iCloud and uploaded to iCloud Drive; like the information that are synced and stored in iCloud are, Contacts, Calendars, Bookmarks, Mail, Notes, Voice Memosshared photosiCloud Photos*, Health data, call history, and files you store in iCloud Drive. (*-If you had turned on iCloud Photos, your content is automatically stored in iCloud.)
  3. You have imported your Photos & Videos to Mac/PC then they are safely residing there on Mac/PC
  4. You have uploaded some of it to Cloud Drives using Files app (iCloud Drive, Google Drive, OneDrive, DropBox, Flickr, box, AmazonDrive, Adobe Creative Cloud etc). The data remains there.
  5. You have not backed up or do not have latest backup, nor imported nor you have synced nor uploaded your data to cloud drives prior to damaging the device. I am sorry, all your data is lost.


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