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Ipad disabled with thousands of children's photos not backed up with iTunes or icloud. Any recommendations for the recovery of the photos please?
iPad Air
Did you backup to the cloud?
Locate backups of your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch - Apple Support
You may be able to signin the same apple id on your new phone as you used on your iPhone 4. Following the link above, you may be able to learn that you had a backup. You could backup you new iphone to your pc. You could try restoring your icloud backup from your iPhone 4.
Your best bet is to give DriveSavers a call.
This is how it works. They will quote you a number of how much it will cost you to get an estimate.
I assume you have the password. I believe that this is a very good thing.
R
I have the same issue with my iPhone 4 that my daughter disabled by entering the wrong password. Unfortunately I didn't back it up due to my laptop breaking down at some point prior to me getting the 5. The birth of my first child and her first few months of life are on there. May I ask what program you purchased? I am sick to my stomach and absolutely at a loss for words about this.
Hi vimaan...i'm writing this because I think you can help me out..actually i'm facing the very same problem which you have mentioned in the post..my ipad is disabled and my baby videos aren't backed up anywhere now..so pls help me which data recovery software toh used to get them back and how much did it cost?.if possible I would like to talk to you directly.pls reply as soon as possible.
You just responded to a post made over a year ago. The answer is that if you haven't been maintaining iTunes or iCloud backups and your phone is an iPhone 5 or later there is no software that exists that can recover data from your iPad.
You might consider reading the post marked "Solved" right at the top of this thread. However, in the end the answer is if you didn't use any of the more than a dozen ways of backing up photos before the phone became disabled it is too late now. They are gone forever. As is any other data on the phone.
Sorry, but if your device is disabled and you have no backup, then you will have no way to save any of the data on the device:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204306
You should be backing up your device regularly to iCloud or be importing your photos to a photos app on your computer. Otherwise, you will be risking losing those photos. If your device was lost, stolen, or run over by your car, you would be in the same situation. Really sorry about your photos.
Best of luck,
GB
Did you have iCloud enabled on the iPad? If so, it's possible you may have had the auto backup to iCloud enabled and there actually is an iCloud backup. If you call Apple Support, they can verify your identity and check your iCloud account for a backup.
Back up automatically in iCloud
After you've turned on iCloud Backup, iCloud can automatically back up your device each day. iCloud makes these daily automatic backups only if:
Thanks for your reply. I am really flabbergasted by this. I did not back up to icloud as there was some problem with the automatic backup but I did not realise the situation is this serious. My children used the ipad regularly and they are 4 and 6. I wanted to wean them off the ipad and therefore I changed the password and sensing the problem of them entering the wrong password in I chose the settings so the 'ipad wont erase itself after 10 attempts'. I thought my pics were safe with those settings. They entered the pw in wrong many times and disabled it now.
If I buy a car and lose the keys the company will help me with a new key but not say you lose all the contents do they? How is this different? I am sorry but I am very very upset with this.
Thanks for your reply. I am really flabbergasted by this. I did not back up to icloud as there was some problem with the automatic backup but I did not realise the situation is this serious. My children used the ipad regularly and they are 4 and 6. I wanted to wean them off the ipad and therefore I changed the password and sensing the problem of them entering the wrong password in I chose the settings so the 'ipad wont erase itself after 10 attempts'. I thought my pics were safe with those settings. They entered the pw in wrong many times and disabled it now.
If I buy a car and lose the keys the company will help me with a new key but not say you lose all the contents do they? How is this different? I am sorry but I am very very upset with this.
Well, you wouldn't want to rely on iCloud backup for all of your photos anyway. You should be importing your photos regularly to archive them. You can import them to a photos app on your computer (iPhoto or Photos on a Mac, or the photos app on a Windows machine), or upload them to a cloud service like Dropbox.
If you have a Mac and you are running the latest OS X on it, you can use iCloud Photo Library as a repository, however, iCloud Photo library also changes the way that photos are shared and displayed on your iOS devices, so you would want to read up on it before moving to that process.
But a simple and regular import to your computer is the easiest way to ensure that your photos are archived in a safe place:
Best of luck,
GB
Whether it's a computer, tablet or smart phone, you should never rely on a single point source for safeguarding important files. With electronic media, the only real safe guard for your files is to back them up to somewhere. Any device may fail or experience a problem at any time for any one of a thousand reasons.
I am sorry you have found yourself here. Hopefully you are very very upset with yourself and not Apple or technology in general.
To draw a comparison to car dealer cutting you a new key for the one you lost is a bit much to me. You have no sentimental attachment to a car like you do to those pictures. Data is nothing at all like a car. To some people, losing those pictures means little to nothing. To you it means much more. The significance of you losing your data upsets you but it is self inflicted. If instead of the forgotten passcode causing you to lose these pictures, it was a lost or stolen iPad, who would be upset with then?
Since day one of computing, having access to ones data has been job one. I am a wedding photographer. I have 3 duplicate copies of every image I create on separate hard drives at any given moment. I still fear data loss.
I have 3 duplicate copies of every image I create on separate hard drives at any given moment. I still fear data loss.
I hope at least one of those drives is in a different building, Burglary... fire...flood...
Another country actually.
Thanks LACAllen.
'Contents' of the car can be of sentimental value? Loss of key is loss of that is it?
To suggest that I shouldn't be upset with apple but with myself when Apple has taken the liberty to lock me out of my ipad FOREVER because the password was entered by my kids wrongly when I and my husband were at work (we are both doctors)?? I myself have forgotten the password for my emails/ various hospital systems and have always been able to recover/ reset the password. Isn't this a bit excessive 'security' which doesn't even let legitimate owners have access to their own stuff (I am happy to provide any proof ipad was bought by me)??
Ipad disabled with thousands of children's photos not backed up with iTunes or icloud. Any recommendations for the recovery of the photos please?
