How to enable a disabled iPhone?

how can i enable my disabled phone as i have data thats important in my phone. is there any way i can enable it please help?


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Posted on Jun 8, 2018 10:21 AM

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Posted on Apr 8, 2020 7:29 AM

You need to follow the instructions in this Apple support article—>If you forgot the passcode for your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, or your device is disabled - Apple Support


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Apr 22, 2020 12:52 PM in response to MuneeraAziz

My fairly new iPhone 8 suddenly went into zoom mode and I couldn’t do anything. The fellow at Verizon told me how to get it to power off. When it came back it’s saying my phone is disabled and connect to iPhone. Does that require an Apple computer? I currently took the SIM card out and put it in my old 6+ so I can make and receive calls till my new iPhone is fixed

Apr 23, 2020 11:53 AM in response to lobsterghost1

The tone from you guys is straight up disrespectful. If you are not going to provide a solution then please do not answer. There's an answer but not a solution. My phone's screen cracked, I go to bed upset, and wake up to a disabled iPhone screen. I can not even wrap my mind around to even think that 2 years of photos are gone just like that. My honey moon, my daughters graduation and so many memories can not be gone just like that. Please if anyone has a solution to this, any 3rd party software, anything to recover my pictures. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let me know. All I care about is the pictures and videos. Everything else can get erased I don't care.

Apr 23, 2020 12:27 PM in response to vegalksb

Provide you a solution? What would you suggest we do for you? Create something which doesn't exist? If you haven't backed up your data, that is simply not OUR FAULT. It's all on you, much as you don't want to acknowledge.


As Lawrence listed for you, if you did any of those things, you may get your photos back. If you didn't, you likely won't.

May 15, 2020 7:13 AM in response to Lawrence Finch

I had the same experience in July 2019

we had to plug it into iTunes

The passcode turns on for no reason even though I had no passcode on the first time, this also happened to my mum’s iPhone 8 Plus a couple months earlier

even though mum’s iPhone 8 Plus was a bit more easy it’s a bit more harder to reset

we tried to put the iPhone 8 Plus into recovery mode of February 2019, and then

, Loop, work, work, work, whoop

The silence of emergency SOS, oh my gosh

my sister’s dad told the operator that they were trying to put it in recovery mode

The000

The operator told us not to do that again

mum was trying to install Facebook on her 8+

as we were both going to a friends house and both of us were blind, mum asked me to turn on VoiceOver, so I times on voice-over, and then, passcode

what?

in July 2019 I found my iPhone disabled

so I connected it to iTunes

we kept putting it into recovery mode, but it just came out of recovery mode every time

The worker who is helping us reset the phone, just lag, walked out the door

finally we got the phone fixed

and that has been nothing wrong, except on September funny one voice-over was totally on usable for awhile on my iPhone SA, which was the phone that I was talking about that was disabled

sad news about the iPhone A+ though

it’s gone somewhere, and a house, activation turns on, and the battery probably dead

we cannot use the iPhone 8 Plus any more as it has find my iPhone turns on and we do not know the Apple ID password



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