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A comment on Ask HN: Can this iPhone data be recovered?.

Re:Ask HN: Can this iPhone data be recovered? by adnanazadsg on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @02:11AM (#19735973)
If you go to the Apple Store, they should be able to help you out. Like someone else mentioned, unless you had enabled the "Delete my data after 10 unsuccessful attempts" - which I'm guessing is unlikely in this scenario - then all the data should still be there.
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Re:Ask HN: Can this iPhone data be recovered? by brainfeed0 on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @04:25AM (#19736521)
SMH. No, you're guessing and you guessed wrong. Turning on a passcode turns on Data Protection. https://www.macworld.com/article/2029998/understanding-ios-p...

iCloud maybe a better/easier way to recover some, but not all, data.

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Re:Ask HN: Can this iPhone data be recovered? by adnanazadsg on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @01:56PM (#19741064)
The data gets encrypted, but its not deleted. Although I guess I was wrong in saying Apple can help - they wouldn't/can't unlock the device for you - but I'd probably still ask them what my options are.
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