Can't trust computer due to broken screen

No. There isn't.

The whole idea of backing up is to make sure you have a safe copy of your data before a disaster occurs.

Plus you can't connect to icloud with out a wifi connection. iPhones will not connect to wifi until passcode is put in upon restart. It wouldn't be difficult update for apple to allow someone to type the phones passcode via computer and allow access to the pictures. They just don't do it for some unknown reason.

If no solution to the current problem exists, then simply saying so would have sufficed.

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I am with you. Everyone attacks the OP for "not backing up" when the real issue is: "Why did Apple change it so now you have to respond from the phone?" Seems to me, there should be a work around in case you CAN'T respond from the phone. Why not offer a feature to log into your iCloud account to verify and trust the connection? Every time I sign into a different iOS device, I get a bazillion emails telling me I did, so why not make it work two ways? As another poster suggested, it wouldn't be that difficult an update for Apple. I agree, especially since they updated the software to require the trust feature in the first place.

Sure, iCloud backups are "easy" and someone asked how could Apple make it any easier? I'll tell you how, by not forcing you to back up an entire 64GB or 128GB iPhone to only 5GB of free iCloud storage. But you're always free to "buy" more storage, just as you're always free to pay Apple to repair your phone's screen (hmmm..). And as for manual backups, as someone else stated, it's a pain to manually sync to iTunes every single day.

Shameless Apple apologists disgust me with their useless apples to oranges comparisons. Sure, if he soaked or lost his phone, he'd be out of luck, but that's clearly not the case here. So why bring it up? If my aunt... Well, you know the rest. Stick to the actual circumstances, not hypotheticals. The phone could still easily export backup data if not for this ridiculous additional layer of "security" that Apple added that does more harm than good. In the past, if your iPhone was locked and connected to a computer, you could enter the unlock code on the PC to sync. So how does simply adding a worthless extra "trust" step from the phone improve security?

Apple makes so much money because too many people are lining up to prove P.T. Barnum's famous quote to be all too true... I personally believe in holding companies accountable for bad decisions, like this one.

So you believe you should hold Apple accountable for your own bad decisions? Seriously? Get over yourself.

I believe I am actually holding Apple accountable for "their" bad decision to unnecessarily complicate what was once an easy backup process. But then again, I'm an objective thinker and not an RDF-blinded iLemming, so I don't expect everyone to necessarily agree.

Your contention is that is it is a complicated task, that your responsibility ends there?

You are only responsible if you find the process to be easy?

Who determines the complexity of the process? In my opinion, the backup process is quite simple. In fact, it has changed very little since the original iPhone was released.

This happened to me as well. If you have any of the side of the screen you can still touch i was able to get to settings/accessibility and turned on full screen zoom with controller since those buttons are off to one side. Then the trust box can be magnified to the side of the screen which hopefully is a least partially responsive for that one click.

As a former U.S. Marine myself...you are being a jerk! What if they did make nightly backups, went to his daughter's birthday party the next day, then on the way home he/she broke their phone? Then your arguments would be a "waste of electrons"!

Their suggestions are valid and YOU are the one who needs to get over yourself!! Earning the Title, is not a license to be an idiot and give the Marine Corps bad publicity!! So if you are going to be a jerk to everyone, then find a different pic....or else remember what "Honor, Courage, and Commitment" means!!

The fact is, they did NOT bother backing it up even though Apple makes it brain dead simple to do so. Throwing an irrelevant hypothetical situation into the mix accomplishes absolutely nothing. would think that you would have learned the importance of taking responsibility for your own actions in the corps. Honor, Courage, and Commitment does not mean excusing laziness.

Why did this evolve into a political discussion and a lecture. The user asked a question seeking an answer for the "helpful" community. If it cannot be done, then it cannot be done; it's the simple. Instead people wrote tirades and chastised him for failing to back up. Do you think he understood these admonitions the first time?

The same problem occurred with my son's phone. Badly cracked screen so no visible way to "trust". Can't believe all the haters out there. iCloud really? I've tried to back up our phones - there's not enough storage and who needs yet another monthly subscription on top of mobile/cable/internet/dropbox/etc. The fact is there should be a hard-button way to "trust" the computer. There's nothing magical about touching the screen. That fact that your touchID does not initiate the trust is quite amazing since there's nothing more secure than that. But maybe it's to sell more iCloud storage...

There is no need to use iCloud to back it up. All you had to do is plug the darned thing into iTunes every once in a while.

When are people going to start taking responsibility for their own actions?

Take a second to read what you're responding too. It wasn't my phone it was a teenage son's phone. Like they're really going to come to my computer and back up their phones. Because Apple has no way to create iTunes family profiles, my computer is the one with the credentials.

What, you never heard of separate user accounts on a computer? And the kid doesn't have their own? This is not rocket science.