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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If your iPhone is disabled, see the instructions in this support document to enable it, If you forgot the passcode for your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, or your device is disabled - Apple Support
If the phone is not disabled, but your Apple ID is, then see this, If your Apple ID is locked or disabled - Apple Support
What exactly are you seeing on the screen?
Once your phone is disabled it is too late to save your data. You need to restore it and then reload your most recent backup.
You will have to restore the device. While the answer is available on almost every one of the 61 pages here, I'll share it again. If you forgot your iPhone passcode - Apple Support
Once a device is actually showing “disabled” the only thing you can do is restore it in itunes. If you do not already have a backup in iCloud or iTunes to restore it with, then you will inherently loose data. There is no alternative to that with a disabled device.
If your phone is disabled you must restore it using the procedure in this link-->If you forgot the passcode for your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, or your device is disabled - Apple Support
It is not possible to recover data from a disabled phone, but after restoring it you can restore your most recent iCloud or iTunes backup and enable iCloud sync to any data that you had set up to sync before it became disabled.
See this, If you forgot the passcode for your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, or your device is disabled - Apple Support unless you are referring to something else, at which point you posted to an incorrect thread.
See this, If you forgot the passcode for your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, or your device is disabled - Apple Support unless you are referring to something else, at which point you posted to an incorrect thread.
Unless you had set Update Automatically, Apple will never upgrade your phone. You must choose to upgrade it. As explained dozens of times in the thread you posted to, Click here—>If you’ve forgotten the passcode for your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, or your device is disabled – Apple Support<—Click here
There is no solution. Yes, ONCE the FBI recovered data from a disabled phone. It cost them $900,000. And the method that was used won’t work anymore.
If they were important photos you should have backed them up. If they were REALLY important you would have enabled iCloud Photos, which would have copied them to iCloud as soon as they were taken. Or any of these other options:
Are you sure you did NONE of these basic steps to protect your photos?
Yes, your screen broke. But suppose your phone was lost or stolen. You would have lost the photos. Or you dropped it in a toilet. You would have lost the photos. Or it got thrown under a bus. You would have lost the photos.
This is a user-to-user technical support site operated by Apple, no one here has locked your iPhone, we don't know how to contact you and we wouldn't anyway. If you forgot the passcode on your iPhone, or your iPhone is disabled - Apple Support
If it’s disabled it is too late to get anything off of it. That’s what backups and iCloud sync are for. If you didn’t do either you will have to start over with a clean slate.
to Rex enable the phone see this Apple support link If you forgot the passcode on your iPhone, or your iPhone is disabled - Apple Support or watch this companion video:
If you forgot the passcode on your iPhone, or your iPhone is disabled or unavailable -
Click on the link for instructions on how to reset your passcode without a computer if you have iOS 15.2 or higher.
How to remove your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch passcode without a computer - Apple Support
Click on the link for instructions on how to reset your passcode using a computer.
If you forgot your iPhone passcode - Apple Support
mulalo97 wrote:
How can I enable my disabled iPhone if I don’t want to loose data
https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/9e5e3dd8-dbb5-49e3-9e79-50155e08f211
You don't. Your only option is to erase and restore.
If your device has iOS 15.2 or later installed, you can reset it without a computer; check out this link→How to reset your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch when you forgot your passcode - Apple Support. Otherwise you will need a computer:
See this Apple support link→If you forgot the passcode on your iPhone, or your iPhone is disabled - Apple Support
Or watch this companion video ⬇️
If you forgot the passcode on your iPhone, or your iPhone is disabled or unavailable -
Click on the link for instructions on how to reset your passcode without a computer if you have iOS 15.2 or higher.
How to remove your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch passcode without a computer - Apple Support If you see an iPhone or iPad unavailable message or Security Lockout screen - Apple Support
Click on the link for instructions on how to reset your passcode using a computer.
If you forgot your iPhone passcode - Apple Support If you forgot your iPhone passcode - Apple Support
the_greatdane wrote:
My mom is 81 and disabled. Now her iPhone is also disabled, and can only be erased? She has no computer, no WiFi, doesnt understand iCloud, and never backed it up. This is a cruel and unfair policy
Problem with joining thread from 2018 is that the Apple Recommended advice gets out of date.
For iOS15 onwards there should be an “Erase IPhone” button bottom right to erase the iphone without using a computer.
Else borrow a computer
Else visit an Apple Store.
Look after your mom. Too late to advise a backup now and iCloud Photos and iCloud Backup are on by default so must have been manually turned off by a “well wisher” .
How to enable a disabled iPhone?
