disabled phone, how to retrieve data

Ok thanks. If I now remember my password, is it possible to take the phone to the Apple Store and have them do something to the phone so that I can try the password another time to open it? I heard that this is a possibility?

Ok thanks. It's a pity. If I can prove to Apple that it is indeed me and my phone, I would think there should be a way to be able to retrieve my data, pictures and the like before wiping and restoring the phone....

It's actually for my daughter's phone and she had automatic backups on. Somehow her link to the family Cloud stopped and many of her photos did not get backed up. Her phone indicated that iCloud was full even though the family iCloud still had a lot of storage remaining. Of course she should have remedied this so that her photos continued to get backed up.... but it's too late now it seems. She says she's learned her lesson!