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I have a customer who brought her water damaged iPhone 6 in for cleaning. The phone is completely dry after setting on pads over night. I have connected a battery and new screen however, the digitizer is not functioning. The main goal is to recover her data since she has photos of her father that passed away. I have tried to think of alternatives to recover her data. My biggest problem is that the phone is locked with a pass code. I have a program to back up and transfer data outside of iTunes but like most I have to unlock the phone. She may or may not have icloud back up on. It would be wonderful if Apple had iCloud set up to where you can removed the pass code through iCloud.com
No, you will need to enter the code, because the user content is encrypted using keys derived from the passcode. No passcode, no files, that’s it. For water-damaged phones, usually it is not the touch panel that are damaged, but the touch controller chips and touch panel connectors. The controller chip and connectors contain relatively high voltage to drive the touch panel capacitive sensors, which is why they tend to corrode spectacularly when water is present. You need to disconnect all power to the board and clean it immediately to prevent further damage, otherwise it is going to very difficult to repair the board to extract the data.
