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LoriQuaid Author

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Help! Accessing photos on iPhone 4

I found my old iPhone in a drawer and it had partially exploded (back popped off and you can see the inside) but when I plugged it in it turned on. However, it says it needs to be updated or restored. I clicked "update" but it says it cannot be updated and I will have to restore. But if I do that I lose the photos that are on there and I don't have them on the cloud.

Questions:

- can I access the photos like a hard drive?

- can I find my old backup from all those years ago?

iPhone 4

Posted on Oct 11, 2020 10:33 AM

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deggie

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Posted on Oct 11, 2020 11:14 AM

No, you the photos are not there anymore anyways, it has gone into disabled mode.

If you were backing up to iCloud and subsequently purchased a replacement phone using the same iCloud account those backups are gone.

You can try taking the iPhone to a 3rd party repair shop and seeing if they can clean the phone, replace the battery and access the iPhone (that part is most unlikely) and recover your data.

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