By Michael | Last Updated
When your iPhone is running iOS before 15.2, you will get the iPhone disabled message: "iPhone is disabled" and "try again in 1 minute" or "try again in 5, 15, 60 minutes" after the wrong passcode is entered. From iOS 15.2, this message is changed to iPhone Unavailable. And you can unlock iPhone Unavailable with Erase iPhone option on the screen.
iPhone being locked is really a terrible, frustrating and troublesome experience to every iPhone user because you can't access the device under this circumstance. How to unlock a disabled iPhone? This tutorial will teach you 4 Ways to Unlock a Disabled iPhone with / without iTunes.
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Step 1: Download and install iSunshare iPhone Passcode Genius on your PC, launch it and then select Unlock Lock Screen.
Step 2: Click the Start button to start to unlocking process.
Step 3: Use a USB cable to connect your iPhone to your computer and then click Next.
Step 4: Click Download tab to download the firmware package for your device.
Wait for some minutes to download and verify the firmware.
Step 5: After verification, click Unlock to unlock the disabled iPhone, and wait for a while until the process is fully completed.
Step 6: A few minutes later when you see Unlock Screen Successfully, click Done to end the process.
Note: : If you haven't installed iTunes on your computer, you should download and install it first before you can use this software to unlock a disabled iPhone successfully.
How to unlock a disabled iPhone with iTunes? If you have previously synchronized your iPhone with iTunes on your computer, you can restore your disabled iPhone via connecting to iTunes by the following steps.
Step 1: Connect your iPhone to your PC that you have previously used to sync the device.
Step 2: Open iTunes and click on the icon of your device.
Step 3: In the Summary tab under Settings section, click Restore iPhone.
Step 4: After iTunes finishes contacting the iPhone software updata server, it will pop up a windows to ask for your restore confirmation. Click Restore to go ahead.
Step 5: Then what you need to do is waiting for the prccess to end.
Step 1: Turn off your iPhone and run iTunes on your computer.
Step 2: According to the following tips in image, make your iPhone enter Recovery Mode while connecting your iPhone to computer.
Step 3: After contacting the iPhone software update server, you will get a new window that with three options. Click Restore option to continue.
Step 4: Next, you also need to restore confirmation. In the pop-up window, click Restore and Update button. After that, you just need to wait for the complishment.
There is another way that you can try to unlock a disabled iPhone. On the condition that your iPhone was signed into iCloud and you had Find My iPhone turned on before the iPhone was disabled, you can attempt to restore your iPhone through iCloud. You can make use of Find My iPhone according to the following steps.
Step 1: Go to icloud.com and sign in to iCloud with your Apple ID and password.
Step 2: Click Find iPhone section and click on the All Devices option at the top, and then a list of devices connected to your Apple ID will be displayed.
Step 3: Select the disabled iPhone that you want to erase, click Erase iPhone and then enter the password to continue.
After that, follow the instructions to have the iPhone erased.
