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Recover Hard Drive from smashed iPhone 6 Plus?

I have a destroyed iPhone 6 plus. Is their any way to remove the hard drive or, should really say flash drive and put it in a working iPhone. I have a lot of info that might be lost forever. Is it possible anyone apple store or third party could do this? Thanks!

P.S. have tried plugging into computer, nothing 😟

iPhone 6 Plus, null

Posted on Feb 3, 2015 4:34 PM

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Posted on Feb 3, 2015 4:51 PM

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.

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Recover Hard Drive from smashed iPhone 6 Plus?

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