Forgotten passcode on iPhone, can it be unlocked via your email/apple account?

Forgotten passcode on iPhone, can it be unlocked via your email/apple account?

No

I have a old iphone 5 and I have forgotten the passcode. I don’t want to use all the attempts to then possibly have the iphone completely locked.

Understood, but the phone will lock if you cannot remember the passcode. Hopefully, you have a current backup of the data on the phone, which you can use to restore the phone after it is reset / erased.

Is there any possible way I can contact Apple or unlock my iphone 5 via my apple email/icloud email?

No

What if I do end up disabling my iphone, can it be unlocked via icloud email?

No

Is there in anyway shape or form, with third party software even or allows via icloud email password?

No

In addition to the above…

When you run out of guesses, here is what to do: If you forgot your iPhone passcode - Apple Support

iPhone 5 is forever limited to iOS 10 too, which be trouble to use, and very few third-party apps will support.

stoly33 wrote:

Is Apple by any chance looking into features for allowing unlocking your iphone via icloud, on old iphones?

Chances of Apple updating anything prior to even iOS 15 seem negligible.

Is this a possibility maybe in the future?

The device passcode is not stored anywhere. It’s the data decryption key. You’re asking for all passcodes to be stored somewhere else, or for Apple creating a master decryption key for all devices, and with all the implications arising from that.

And yes, a lack of backups can be (is) a problem for this and for other cases. Devices do get dunked, dropped, lost and stolen. And do fail, too.

And I sincerely hope that those videos and photos or whatever remain inaccessible. Not until you remember the passcode. Not because I think you shouldn’t have them—I don’t know that, and I don’t know the details of this case—but because I want all of our data on all of our devices to be secure against unauthorized access.

Log your feedback with Apple: Product Feedback - Apple

On this user-to-user support site, we are all users.......just like you. No one here will know what a very secretive company like Apple might be planning to do or when they might be planning to do it, so we cannot answer your question about Apple's plans.

What you suggest though, would pose a real security risk, so my guess would be that Apple will not change their security methods.

stoly33 wrote:

How about my other question in regards to apple icloud service and backing up saved files that were previously uploaded/and deleted on icloud?

Backups that no longer exist are not retained.

I wouldn’t expect any deleted files or any deleted backups to be (maybe) recoverable past one month.

Preserving deleted data past one month is a massive storage increase, any data privacy issues and legal aside.

Whether intentionally or not, this whole situation was designed, intended, and constructed to render this data permanently inaccessible.

Which without that passcode and without accessible backups is the expected and desired outcome.

Do you have a recent backup of your phone? As I noted above, you can use that to restore the phone so it will look just like it did when you made the backup.

If you don't have a backup, all is lost.