"The iPhone is disabled and asks to connect to iTunes.  What a terrible thing it is!  How can I unlock it without iTunes?"

Don't worry, here in this article, we will discuss three situations as well as the solutions to unlock a disabled iPhone without iTunes or iCloud or Computer.

    • Case 1: How to Unlock a Disabled iPhone without iTunes
    • Case 2: How to Unlock a Disabled iPhone without iTunes or iCloud
    • Case 3: How to Unlock a Disabled iPhone without iTunes/ iCloud/Computer

unlock a disabled iPhone

Case 1: How to Unlock a Disabled iPhone without iTunes

When the iPhone is disabled, the first solution that is to restore it with iTunes. Yes, iTunes play an important role in backup & restore iPhone. It can help to unlock the disabled iPhone and restore it to the inactive state if you have disabled the Find My iPhone function. You can refer to this tutorial: how to unlock disabled iPhone with synced iTunes.

But what if you do not has synced iTunes? What's the most common way to unlock the disabled iPhone? Yes, the iCloud would be the second choice if you turn on the Find My iPhone function.

Step-1: You need to sign into icloud.com with the Apple ID on your Windows/Mac computer.  The iCloud account should be used in the disabled iPhone.

login iCloud website

Step-2: After you successfully log in iCloud, you will find Find iPhone option easily and click on it.

click Find iPhone

Step-3: Next, you will see a map to show all devices location. At this time, you need to click All Devices and get its drop-down devices. Just go to click your disabled iPhone.

select disabled iPhone

Step-4: Then, it will show your last location for the disabled iPhone. Also, at the top right corner, you will get the operation to do for the iPhone. Click Erase iPhone and then click Erase to confirm the action.

hit Erase iPhone

Step-5: Enter the Apple ID and password to allow this action. After that, the disabled iPhone will be erased and restarted. Your locked screen is removed and now you need to activate it as what you do to a new iPhone.

sign in iCloud

Notes: Sometimes, you may fail to log into the iCloud as it needs to do the two-factor authentication for your Apple ID. As your iPhone is disabled, you cannot receive the verification code.  If this happens, you can directly go to Case 2.

Case 2: How to Unlock a Disabled iPhone without iTunes or iCloud

If you are unable to unlock the disabled iPhone with iTunes and iCloud due to some reasons, you can use a third-party tool to remove the locked screen on iPhone.  iSunshare iPhone Passcode Genius is such a iPhone passcode unlocking tool that can helps to unlock a disabled iPhone effectively.

Step-1: Get iPhone Passcode Genius on the Windows computer. Then it will take you few minutes to install and launch it. Next, click the Unlock Lock Screen part.

click Unlock Lock Screen

Step-2: Hit the Start button. In addition, connect the disabled iPhone to your computer. When the computer detects the iPhone, you can click the Next button on the software interface.

hit Start button

Step-3:  As the software will delete all data in the disabled iPhone, you need to download the corresponding firmware package for the iOS. Here, the software will detect the device type and firmware version for you. What you need to do is click the Download button.

Click Download

Step-4: Soon you will go to the Verify Success & Unlock interface.  And then you can click the Unlock button to execute the unlocking process.  You will get the successfully box after it finishes the unlocking in the end.

unlock disabled iPhone

Case 3: How to Unlock a Disabled iPhone without iTunes/ iCloud/Computer

If neither iTunes nor iCloud can help you to unlock the disabled iPhone, and you have no computer on hand, what can you do to unlock the disabled iPhone? Here is an idea—utilize another iPhone to sign into the Find My iPhone app to erase the disabled iPhone, of which the process is similar to Case 1. You can try it by following the steps below. But it is not 100% successful guarantee.

Step-1: Find an available iPhone and then get Find My iPhone from App Store.

Step-2: Sign in Find My iPhone with your iCloud ID.

Step-3: Tap on your disabled iPhone from the list.

Step-4: Tap on Actions at the screen bottom to show 3 options and then choose Erase iPhone on the right side. At last, your disabled iPhone is successfully unlocked without iTunes/iCloud/computer.

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