My boss brought in his wife's iPhone 4 with the hope that I could connect it to my computer and pull her pictures off of it. They have both gotten new cell phones and are looking to get rid of the iPhone 4 but want to recover the pictures from it before they do.
Well, the phone sat on my desk for a good month or so because it wouldn't power on. Finally had an opportunity to go to an Apple Store on Monday and they got it to power on so it's functional at this point, but my boss's wife does not recall the passcode. Who ever had used it before me tried a few different times as I was immediately locked out for 5 minutes upon typing in the wrong code. I've tried two codes she thought might be correct but those both failed. I'm now locked out for an hour.
I'm worried that if I enter another wrong code that the phone is going to completely reset and the pictures will be gone. My boss's wife has no backups of her device (pretty sure she's never connected it to a computer and definitely no iCloud backups) so the only way to get these pictures off is to do it via computer.
Anyone have any thoughts or is there pretty much no way to recover these photos? I'm guessing not.
Well, the phone sat on my desk for a good month or so because it wouldn't power on. Finally had an opportunity to go to an Apple Store on Monday and they got it to power on so it's functional at this point, but my boss's wife does not recall the passcode. Who ever had used it before me tried a few different times as I was immediately locked out for 5 minutes upon typing in the wrong code. I've tried two codes she thought might be correct but those both failed. I'm now locked out for an hour.
I'm worried that if I enter another wrong code that the phone is going to completely reset and the pictures will be gone. My boss's wife has no backups of her device (pretty sure she's never connected it to a computer and definitely no iCloud backups) so the only way to get these pictures off is to do it via computer.
Anyone have any thoughts or is there pretty much no way to recover these photos? I'm guessing not.
