How to fix a disabled iPhone with and without a computer

If your iPhone is disabled, here’s how you can fix it, with or without a computer.

What to do when the iPhone is disabled?

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If you have a deactivated iPhone, you are probably wondering what does that mean iPhone disabled and how can I get it back. And we have several ways to do it, it’s easy to do it from a computer or Mac, but we can also restore a disabled or locked iPhone without connecting it to a computer or iTunes.

iPhones are disabled for security, when we entered the unlock code too many times wrongly, in the end the iPhone crashes. But luckily, we can reverse this situation, even if we have a disabled iPhone we will not be able to recover it without losing information.

The iPhone is disabled. Please try again in 1 minute

Why is my iPhone disabled?

as you surely know, iPhones are protected with a password, despite other methods such as Face ID or Touch ID. And they have a method of protection that prevents someone from breaking into the device with “brute force” methods. That is, if the code is entered incorrectly several times in a row, the iPhone SE deactivates showing a timer to try again.

These are the times it is necessary to incorrectly enter the unlock code for your iPhone to get it deactivated for some time or another.

5 wrong attempts: you can try again in 1 minute.
7 wrong attempts: you can try again in 5 minutes.
8 wrong attempts: you can try again in 15 minutes.
9 wrong attempts: you can try again in 60 minutes.
10 wrong attempts: — Alert — iPhone disabled.

As you see, if you write the wrong code too many times, a message will tell you that the device is deactivated. If you don’t remember the passcode, you’ll need to erase iPhone to remove all data and settings, including the passcode. And has two options to activate a deactivated iPhone.

Restore disabled iPhone with computer or iTunes

The easiest way to restoring a deactivated iPhone is from a computer, either a Mac or a Windows PC. In case you have a Mac with a version prior to macOS Catalina or a PC with Windows, you will need iTunes.

Remove the code from an iPhone X, iPhone XS, iPhone 11, iPhone 12, iPhone SE 2, iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus

Make sure the iPhone is not connected to the computer.
Press and hold the side button and one of the volume buttons until you see the slider to turn off.
Drag the slider to turn off iPhone.
Connect the iPhone to the computer while holding down the side button.
Keep holding the side button until you see the recovery mode screen.
Through Finder or iTunes you can restore your iPhone.

Remove the code from an iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus

Make sure the iPhone is not connected to the computer.
Press and hold the side button until the slider to turn off appears.
Drag the slider to turn off iPhone.
Connect the iPhone to the computer while holding down the volume down button.
Keep holding the volume down button until you see the recovery mode screen.
Through Finder or iTunes you can restore your iPhone.

Remove the passcode from an iPhone SE, iPhone 6s and earlier models

Make sure the iPhone is not connected to the computer.
Press and hold the side (or top) button until the power off slider appears.
Drag the slider to turn off iPhone.
Connect the iPhone to the computer while holding down the home button.
Keep holding the home button until you see the recovery mode screen.
Through Finder or iTunes you can restore your iPhone.

Restore disabled iPhone without computer or iTunes

If you want to recover a deactivated iPhone and activate it again without iTunes on your computer, you also have a solution that goes through the cloud, in the case of Apple, by iCloud.

Can Wipe and restore an iPhone remotely without iTunes or a computerand these are the steps you must follow:

Sign in to iCloud.com from any device.
Sign in with your Apple account, the same one the iPhone is associated with.
Select the iPhone from the list of devices.
Tap Erase iPhone.
Confirm that you want to perform this operation, you may be asked to enter your Apple ID password.
The iPhone will be remotely wiped and you can start it up again and restore your backup.

These are the ways you have fix an iPhone that is disabled. You can easily do it from a computer, or from the cloud without the need to connect the iPhone to iTunes.