Recover Hard Drive from smashed iPhone 6 Plus?

You can't tell for sure without opening the case. The connector or cable could have been damaged, but not the motherboard.

There are data recovery services that can sometimes get data from an iPhone. They are not cheap, however. The problem is the contents are hardware encrypted, so unless the encryption key is intact that won't work either. Even Apple cannot get data out of a working iPhone if asked by law enforcement.

Fit a new screen to unlock it, that is assuming the logic board has the connections intact.

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You may also want to leave it powered off too, you want to avoid damaging any circuitry the bent bits of metal could end up shorting something important.

Not trying to be funny I seen worse than yours it's still repairable.

Hello! My iPhone got water damaged and my iCloud wasn't working so all my photos and really important information is lost forever.. can't they get the hard rive out or something because even my grandpa hads and its a bit silly if the Apple Store can't

aisha.lanai wrote:

Hello! My iPhone got water damaged and my iCloud wasn't working so all my photos and really important information is lost forever.. can't they get the hard rive out or something because even my grandpa hads and its a bit silly if the Apple Store can't

There is no hard drive in an iPhone. It's all solid state memory, and it is encrypted. All of your information is lost forever if you didn't use any of the half dozen different ways that Apple provides for backing up all Apple products. You might try contacting Drive Savers (https://www.drivesaversdatarecovery.com/?s=iphone), but I suspect they will tell you what I just posted. It's your best chance, but it will not be inexpensive.

On an iPhone 5s or newer, removing the solid state storage will not help at all. The data on it is encrypted and the decryption does not merely require your passcode. It requires that you enter that passcode on the original functional device. The decrypt key is tied to your passcode and the device hardware so without the storage chips in the same device (same logic board, cpu, etc) and all functioning properly, there is nothing to recover on that storage but encrypted gibberish.

The iPhone and Apple’s secure enclave system have been deliberately designed to disallow what you wish to do - that is, remove the storage and access the data in a human readable form.

Lawrence Finch wrote:

aisha.lanai wrote:

Hello! My iPhone got water damaged and my iCloud wasn't working so all my photos and really important information is lost forever.. can't they get the hard rive out or something because even my grandpa hads and its a bit silly if the Apple Store can't

There is no hard drive in an iPhone. It's all solid state memory, and it is encrypted. All of your information is lost forever if you didn't use any of the half dozen different ways that Apple provides for backing up all Apple products. You might try contacting Drive Savers (****), but I suspect they will tell you what I just posted. It's your best chance, but it will not be inexpensive.

Great suggestions, but, hopefully, the OP found a solution two years ago. It's always good to check the thread's date. And, some of your links' URLs are not what they should be.

I can't figure out how that sort of post is profitable. But it's pretty common. The spammer will quote an early post with a legitimate link (or no link), write something about how helpful the post was and change the link. This one did go a bit farther.

There is no hard drive in an iPhone. Just SSD memory, which is permanently affixed to the logic board. If the board isn't damaged an independent shop may be about to put it in a new enclosure. If you had important information on the phone presumably you backed it up regularly to either iCloud or to iTunes on your computer; ideally, you set up automatic daily backup as you were prompted to do when you first activated the phone. You can then restore the backup to a replacement phone.

You may want to look at https://www.ifixit.com/Device/iPhone if you plan to try a repair yourself.

It would be safer to find some specialists to get the hardware into a working state.

not sure if you got it fix yet but what you said and the look of your iphone you need a new whole screen assembly including the home button and to get your data back you need a working screen for sure to enter your passcode and backup your phone. I suggest trying going apple Genius Bar get a screen replacement if you got warranty or try a 3rd party that can put a screen so you can remove the passcode and backup it up For now