How can I unlock my damaged and locked iPhone without Apple ID?

how to unlock a locked iPhone that is mine? i mean the device, not my apple id? It broke the screen, and the destroyed screen entered passcode attempts all the time, so the phone got locked eventually for good. I have stored things I need on the device itself, things that is not backed up to my Apple ID. How can I get access to this device? I have all the codes I need, but locked is locked.


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Posted on Sep 14, 2025 02:21 PM

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Posted on Sep 14, 2025 07:04 PM

thonjebac wrote:

The screen is replaced. And what I need is the stuff on the device i havent backed up.


If the data exists only on the phone, it is gone.


Depending on how you had the phone set up, the phone may have already wiped itself when the damaged screen entered the tenth (and final) incorrect passcode. But even if it didn't, now that the phone is locked up, there is no way back in without erasing it and wiping all of the data on it.


To the best of my knowledge, there's no magic "back door" that would allow Apple to get in, either. The system is designed to encrypt the data stored in flash and to safeguard the encryption key. Maybe if you were the NSA or the successor agency to the KGB, and you had special hardware, and unlimited funds, and you thought that the phone contained the other side's top nuclear secrets, there would be some way to "crack" the Secure Enclave – but for all ordinary intents and purposes, forget it.


If the data was not backed up, or synchronized elsewhere, or copied elsewhere, before the catastrophe, sorry. It's gone, and you've just learned a very painful lesson about the need to back up your data in the future.

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How can I unlock my damaged and locked iPhone without Apple ID?

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