How to Backup Data on Locked iPhone XS/X/8/7/SE/6s/6

Part 1: How to backup locked iPhone with iTunes

If you have synced your iPhone with iTunes before and haven't restart your iPhone after you connected your iTunes in the last time, then iTunes will remember the password. So iTunes won’t ask you to unlock your iPhone when you connect to it. In this way, you can backup locked iPhone with iTunes.

Step 1: Launch iTunes and connect your iPhone to the computer.

Step 2: Click "Summary" on the left side of the window and then tap on "Back Up Now" to initiate the backup process.

Step 3: If the backup process is completed, you can find your iPhone backup location and check your backup files.

Step 4: Since you have backed up your iPhone data, you can put your iPhone into Recovery Mode with iTunes to unlock iPhone lock screen. You can press the Home button and the Power button at the same time, you will see the Apple logo appearing. Then you should release the Power button and keep pressing the Home button until you get an iTunes alert saying your iPhone is in Recovery Mode. You'll see the screen shown on your iPhone, that is to say, you erase your iPhone password.

Note: But many users haven't synced their iPhone with iTunes or they have restarted their iPhone after the last connection with iTunes, then it is impossible for iTunes to backup data on locked iPhone. Then what should we do? Let's check the next part.

Part 2: Extract locked iPhone data from iCloud backup

If you have set iCloud backup before, then iCloud will automatically backup your iPhone data when connected to Wi-Fi. In this case, you can use Dr.Fone - Data Recovery (iOS) to extract your locked iPhone data from iCloud backup to your computer. This software is a powerful data recovery tool, which allows you to preview and selectively recover your iPhone data from iCloud backup and iTunes backup.

Part 3: How to Backup Locked iPhone Data with Dr.Fone - Phone Backup (iOS)

From the above introduction, we can know that we have to set iTunes sync or iCloud backup before to backup locked iPhone data. But what if I haven't done both of these before? In this part, we are going to show you a powerful tool, Dr.Fone - Phone Backup (iOS), to directly backup locked iPhone data. This program can assist you in accessing your iPhone, preview, backup and export iPhone videos, call history, notes, messages, contacts, photos, iMessages, Facebook messages and many other data without iTunes. The program currently works perfectly with iOS 9 and support iPhone 6s (Plus), iPhone 6 (Plus), 5s, iPhone 5c, iPhone 5, iPhone 4s, iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS. And you can check the box below to get more detail information about Dr.Fone.

Note: Please ensure you connect your iPhone to the computer you've trusted. Dr.Fone can detect the locked phone only when the iPhone has trusted this computer before.

Steps to backup and restore locked iPhone

Next, let's check how to backup data on locked iPhone without iTunes in detail. This guide is based on the Windows version of Dr.Fone. If you are a Mac user, please download the Mac version. The operation is similar.

Step 1. Connect your iPhone to the computer

To backup locked iPhone, launch the program after installing it, and connect your iPhone to the computer. When your device is detected by the program, you'll see the window shown as follows.

Step 2. Choose "Phone Backup"

After select, the "Phone Backup", click on Backup. Then you need to select the type of data to back up and start the backup process.

Step 3. Backup locked iPhone data

Now Dr.Fone is backing up the data of your iPhone, please don't disconnect your device.

Step 4. Export or restore locked iPhone

When the backup is completed, click on View Backup History to see all backup files on your computer. Select the backup file and click on View, you can check all contents of the backup file in categories. Check any of them for exporting or restoring just need to click on the button "Restore to device" or "Export to PC" at the right lower corner of the window.

Note: If you're still asked to enter the password by Dr.Fone, don't be angry. You need to know that Dr.Fone can't change anything on your iPhone, including disabling the password. So, it won't help to erase the password. If you've synced your device with iTunes recently and iTunes would remember the password. In this way, Dr.Fone can get into your device by using it. Of course, you don't need to run iTunes on your computer when you use Dr.Fone. Please let your phone trust the computer when connecting your phone to the computer.

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