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How to Backup/Recover Data from iPhone with Locked Screen

How to Backup/Recover Data from iPhone with Locked Screen

My iPhone is Locked for forgetting passcode. Need Help!

Dear, have you ever encountered the same problem? Your phone is turned into a waste because your password is too many times and your phone screen is locked The ways to unblock a password locked iPhone, besides from entering the code, is to factory reset. But if you factory reset you will lose the data and your iPhone setting.So Backup/Recover Data from iPhone with Locked Screen?

Also Read:

How to Backup and Restore iPhone/iPad Data without using iTunes/iCloud

How to Unlock iPhone/iPad Locked Screen without Data Loss

Backup/Recover Data from iPhone with Locked Screen

When you can not access iPhone data or forget the lock screen password, do not panic, do not be too sad, there must be a way to help you solve. So we will introduce a powerful and easy to use software iPhone Data Recovery, which can help you restore contacts, messages, pictures, notes and call history etc.It allows you to scan your iPhone directly and selectively recover data from your iPhone.In addition, you can use IOS data backup & restore to back up your iPhone data. Both softwares work on all iPhones, including the latest iPhone 11.You can download the trial version.

    

How to Backup/Recover Data from iPhone with Locked Screen

  Part 1. Recover Data on a Locked iPhone via iTunes/iCloud

 
Part 2. Backup and Restore Locked iPhone Data on the Computer

Part 1. Recover Data on a Locked iPhone via iTunes/iCloud

You can also just as easily erase and then recover the data on your locked iPhone via either iTunes or iCloud if you had backed up your data on iTunes/iCloud.

Take iTunes as an example, if you have sync your iPhone with iTunes before and haven't restart your device after you connected to iTunes in the last time, then iTunes will remember the password. So you can backup locked iPhone with iTunes and then restore the backed up data to your iPhone 7/7 Plus, iPhone 6S/6S Plus, iPhone 6/6 Plus, iPhone 5S/5C/5, iPhone 4S/4, iPad and more iOS devices.

Step 1: Connect your iPhone device to the computer / Mac, and then launch iTunes.

Step 2: Tap on the "summary" on the left side of the window, and then click "Back Up Now" to start the backup process.

Step 3: Once completed, you can find your iPhone backup location and check your backup files.

Step 4: Click “Restore iPhone” after backing up iPhone data.

Follow the instructions until you enter the settings screen, and then click "Restore from iTunes Backup". Select the device in iTunes, and then select the latest backup to restore the device.

However, there are many iOS users who haven't sync their device with iTunes or they have restarted the locked iPhone after the last connection with iTunes, then it is impossible for iTunes to backup data on locked iPhone. Then what should we do? Let's check the next part.

Part 2.Backup and Restore Locked iPhone Data on the Computer

 Through the introduction above, we already know how to retrieve the locked iPhone data through iTunes synchronization or iCloud backup. But what if I haven't done both of these before? In this section, we will show you a powerful tool - iOS Data Backup&Recovery, which can directly backup locked iPhone data to PC and Mac computer, and then restore back to the device or another iPhone iPad from the backups.

The tool supports to extract or backup iPhone videos, call history, notes, messages, contacts, photos, iMessages, Facebook messages and many other data.


   

Steps to backup and restore locked iPhone
 
Next, let's check how to backup data on locked iPhone without iTunes in detail. This guide is based on the Windows version of dr.fone. If you are a Mac user, please download the Mac version. The operation is similar.

Step 1. Connect your iPhone to the computer
 
To backup locked iPhone, launch the program after installing it, and connect your iPhone to the computer. When your device is detected by the program, you'll see the window shown as follows.


Step 2. Choose "Backup & Restore"
 
After select the "Backup & Restore", click on Backup. Then you need select the type of data to backup and start the backup process.


Step 3. Backup locked iPhone data
 
Now dr.fone is backing up the data of your iPhone, please don't disconnect your device.
 

Step 4. Export or restore locked iPhone
When the backup is completed, click on View Backup History to see all backup files on your computer. Select the backup file and click on View, you can check all contents of the backup file in categories. Check any of them for exporting or restoring just need click on the button "Restore to device" or "Export to PC" at the right lower corner of the window.
 

Note: If you're still asked to enter the password by dr.fone, don't be angry. You need to know that dr.fone can't change anything on your iPhone, including disable the password. So, it won't help to erase the password. If you've synced your device with iTunes recently and iTunes would remember the password. In this way, dr.fone can get into your device by using it. Of course, you don't need to run iTunes on your computer when you use dr.fone. Please let your phone trust the computer when connecting your phone to the computer.
 
    

 

 



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