Iphone 12 won't recognise correct passcode, now phone is disabled. I did all the steps listed, nothing works. I see a lot of users complain about the same issue.Fix it!!!

Your phone absolutely, positively, knows the passcode that it expects. If you don’t enter the passcode it expects it will reject it. There is no “correct” passcode other than the one that the phone has stored in its memory.

If you lost 15,000 photos that is 100% your responsibility for not backing up your phone regularly. That is not Apple’s mistake, it is yours. Would you consider it Apple’s mistake if you lost them because you dropped the phone in a toilet, if it was stolen, or thrown under a bus? Or if you entered the wrong passcode 10 times? or if your child entered the wrong password 10 times?

There is no excuse for not backing up; Apple makes it trivially easy using automatic nightly backups. If you chose not to back up your phone that is your choice, not Apple’s. Apple also makes it trivially easy to sync content to iCloud in real time; take a photo and it will be instantly saved to iCloud if you enabled this feature.

If your phone is disabled here is the only solution, and you will lose any content you didn’t back up or sync:

See this Apple support link→If you forgot the passcode on your iPhone, or your iPhone is disabled - Apple Support

Or watch this companion video ⬇️

We are not Apple, we are other users like you.

Most of us have also experienced or encountered data loss, whether that due to insufficient or incomplete or failed or missing backups or otherwise. Some of us have met malicious data loss too, where somebody deliberately corrupted existing backups, and also deliberately corrupted production server data. We’ve seen data loss.

A lost or stolen or damaged or failed or dunked iPhone is why backups are necessary.

Backups can be to iCloud and entirely automatic with no interaction, or can be to a local Mac or Windows computer with some interaction.

Photos too can be configured to be stored on Apple servers using iCloud Photos, which keeps all the originals on Apple’s servers.

Whether this particular case is a damaged device or a failing display or digitizer or a forgotten passcode matters not, once the iPhone detects enough password failures, it assumes malicious access is underway and protects the data the only way it can.

Yes, having no backups and getting caught out absolutely stinks. Would you prefer Apple force you to have and to pay for backup storage and for the cellular data required? (And remote backups over cellular only just became available, requiring a 5G device and 5G network.) Because there would be folks unhappy that requirement, too.

Send your feedback to Apple, as they may or may not see this thread: https://www.apple.com/feedback/

I browse questions regularly. I’ve seen posts from others who believe they know the correct passcode. They are always wrong, as you are. If you can’t accept that there is no point in continuing this thread. The answer is that whatever the reason, your only option is to restore the phone as new, and, if you have a backup, restore it.

The only other possibility is a hardware failure in your screen digitizer.

I was going to respond to your rant, but by the time I got to it. Lawrence already posted one of the best responses I've read on your situation. Nothing more needs to be said. He is 1,000% correct, even if you don't like it.

I already answered your other post with the proper instructions. Lawrence Finch is one of the best and most respected users of this forum. His advice is always sound and safe. I hope you are willing to listen...

Responded to the wrong post. Ignore previous email you received.

Her original post said that it is an iPhone 12 that she has been using for 6 months.

Yes, I know. I removed my comment as it was intended for a different thread, but had bits of this thread intersected.

As I said, users forget passcodes all the time.