How to enable a disabled iPhone?

No, your only option is to restore to factory settings if you don’t have a backup.

Are you sure you didn’t do ANY of these ways of preserving photos?

• iCloud photo sync
• iCloud backup
• iTunes backup
• Transfer your photos to your computer via USB cable
• Apple Photo Stream
• Sync to Google Photos
• Sync to some other photo archiving service such as Shutterfly
• Sync to Dropbox
• Sync to box.com
• Sync to Microsoft OneDrive
• Sync to Amazon Photos
• back up to Livedrive
• Backup to any other backup or archiving service

If the answer is no to all of the above your photos are gone forever.

Have you taken the time to read any of the posts here. The answer has been provided multiple times, just a few posts above yours is the latest one.

. Connect your phone to a computer use iTunes to restore

. If you have a 6S and below hold the power and home button for 15 secs.

. For iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, and iPod touch (7th generation): Press and hold the Top (or Side) and Volume Down buttons at the same time. Keep holding them until you see the recovery mode screen.

. iPhone 8 or later: Press and quickly release the Volume Up button. Press and quickly release the Volume Down button. Then, press and hold the Side button until you see the recovery mode screen.

. If the screen show a compute and a lightning cable and a link saying, Apple support/restore that means your phone is on restore mode

. The PC should prompt a message on iTunes saying, do you wanna restore or update or cancel process press restore.

. Very soon your phone is on the way to restore.

Note: I am sorry to send a long composition like message as I don’t know which iPhone model you have. :(

You cannot. You can use iTunes to restore it as a new device, which means erasing it, which will reset the passcode. That is the only solution for a disabled iOS device.

If you have an up to date backup in iCloud or iTunes, you can subsequently restore that backup. If you don’t have an up to date backup, you are going to lose data - there is no way around that reality.

Maybe you need help for a disabled phone. Disabling a phone is easy. Turn it off, remove the SIM, whatever. If you wish to restore a disabled phone, then see the link I provided above. If you are referring to something else, please explain.

As noted several times in this thread, once your phone is disabled, it is too late to save any data. You can restore the data once you restore the phone by reloading your most recent backup. Depending on when you last did a backup, you should not lose too much information.

Liza81 wrote:

My iphone app was locked bacause of mg billings for my apps. I want to make my payment for my game app. How can i pay? Please help me. Tnx

This has nothing to do with a phone being disabled. While I would normally say to start your own thread to ask the question and wait for an answer, it is easier to tell you to contact iTunes support.

Don’t we all sometimes need help. If you would like to explain your problem, we will try to help. Also, unless your problem is related to this thread, you may already have an answer here. If it is not related to this thread, please start your own.

The original post that you are responding to is over 1 year old now and the answer has been provided multiple times since then. Thanks for the suggestion, but next time you may want to look at the history of the thread you are posting to.

amarrionbeast777 wrote:

my iPhone is saying disabled on the front screen and its saying connect to itunes

6 pages in this thread and counting...

Try reading at least one of them.

This has been answered multiple times.

KCswasey wrote:

i forgot the dang sim lock on my phone , Also i need my phone enabled

It looks like you haven’t read any part of this thread or you would have your answer. Go back and read the thread.

I am trying to read the answers here as i have this problem too (been trying to solve last 2 and half hours grrrrrrr) and some answers say to click on thread/link above - then i cant see no bloody link above or whatever!

I failed to unlock my iphone 6's passcode lastnight then after trying it unsuccessfully all day my phone's now completely disabled! Have installed both itunes and icloud on my sons laptop and managed to sign in both correctly (i seem to have two apple id accounts though so not sure which is currently correct for my device), but icloud is failing to locate my device saying it is 'offline'.

I have tried following instructions to switch device off then holding down 'home' button connect to usb to laptop at same time but same screen appears when re-started saying 'iphone is disabled', 'connect to itunes' - i keep doing to no avail....help!!!

Take a few minutes to read the 8 pages of this thread. When you are done, if you are not sure what to do next, then take a look at the link in the Apple Recommended post at the top of each page, and that contains your answer.

Lawrence Finch wrote:

It is so sad that some people don't use any of the sync and backup features that Apple provides, then blame Apple for their negligence. What ever happened to personal responsibility?

It went out the window when we started giving kids 'participation trophies' just for showing up and stopped recognizing actual achievements because those who didn't 'win' had their feelings hurt.

The iPhone is disabled, or your Apple ID has been disabled. Those are two different things. If the iPhone is disabled, you would not be able to get into the phone and into the App Store. And, the troubleshooting and answer would be different.

So, which is it?