Is My Old Phone F**Ked?
I was just wondering if anyone knew if I could still recover the data from my old Iphone 5 if i took it too a professional. The problem with the phone is that the battery expanded and slightly cracked the, what i think is a motherboard of the phone and now the phone doesn't turn on. If anyone knows anything about old iPhone and fixing them please let me know before i spend alot of money for someone to Try and fix it.
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Professional data recovery costs a fortune.
But you won't have that expense. Because ALL data on iPhones is encrypted, data recovery would only be able to grab encrypted data. And the ONLY way to decrypt it is by using the phone motherboard it came from which is now scrap.
All you can hope for is that your iCloud account has some or all of your data, but the free introductory iCloud data storage is very small so unless you opted to pay Apple £2.99 per month for up to 1TB of storage then you won't find much. The other hope is that you have a Flickr account or some other cloud storage service linked to your phone.
You probably already have a backup, if not then thats just being lazy as everyone should backup occasionally, even more so when you have a had a phone for years like in your case with iphone 5. If you connected to itunes / computer in past. You may have done a backup there and can just reinstall on the new phone.
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