iPhone 8 Water Damage

[Zack Brown]

My iPhone 8 got water damaged yesterday.

After soaking it in rice for around 24 hours, I first got a "no charge" symbol. After charging it and booting it up, I get the white apple logo and then just a black backlit screen. Sometimes, some vertical lines appear but nothing else.

 

After taking it to an authorized Apple reseller (no official Apple stores where I'm from) they said they don't fix water damaged phones. They can only replace the phone but that's it.

 

The problem is, I have unbacked up pictures on there that date up to 4 years back. So:

 

1. Is there any way that I can fix the phone and get all the images at the same time?

2. If not, is there a way that I can at least get all my data back?

[LukeNukem9]

A new display may help. Unless it's the display connecters.

[Kaicer]

8 minutes ago, Zack Brown said:

1. Is there any way that I can fix the phone and get all the images at the same time?

 

Yes, there is a way. Take it to rossmangroup.

https://rossmanngroup.com/

[star_pilot475]

You could try plugging it into a Mac and loading pictures off it...

thats as long as you have access to a Mac. 

[Zack Brown]

5 minutes ago, Kaicer said:

Yes, there is a way. Take it to rossmangroup.

https://rossmanngroup.com/

I'm not in the US at the moment, and won't be for a while.

[Zack Brown]

Just now, star_pilot475 said:

You could try plugging it into a Mac and loading pictures off it...

thats as long as you have access to a Mac. 

Why a Mac specifically?

[Kaicer]

1 minute ago, Zack Brown said:

I'm not in the US at the moment, and won't be for a while.

Used to repair my own phones. Never used an apple phone before.

I only repaired androids. This was the best recommendation that I can give because of my lack of experience with Apple products.

[Zack Brown]

10 minutes ago, LukeTheCoder05 said:

A new display may help. Unless it's the display connecters.

Does replacing the display have any risks in regards to losing saved data?

[Kaicer]

4 minutes ago, Zack Brown said:

Does replacing the display have any risks in regards to losing saved data?

Wait, I just remembered that Iphones need to be heated with a heat gun in order to melt the adhesive holding the display and the bottom of the phone together.

[star_pilot475]

23 minutes ago, Zack Brown said:

Why a Mac specifically?

Macs can access photos from an iPhone, but it would also have to be a Mac that you had used before or have associated with your iCloud account, otherwise your phone would have to working so that you could hit the "trust this computer" button. I think windows computers can do it too, but I forget how.