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Hi there, A friend of mine in Thailand just drowned his iPhone in the ocean and DESPERATELY wants to get the photos off of it. He’s tried soaking it in rice, but it won’t turn on and just heats up really badly around the camera area. Is there a way to get photos off of an iPhone without being able to turn it on? Can you remove the hard drive and install it on another phone for instance?
Hi Bill. @tomchai is correct, please avoid scammers trying to sell you software to recover data. Your only real option is to have the phone looked at by a repair shop that does water damage and micro-soldering repairs. There are many good shops around the world so have your friend do some googling. The phone will have to be professionally decontaminated in an ultrasonic cleaner with the proper chemicals to stop the corrosion from progressing. Unfortunately for your friend, the worst thing that happened was to drop it in the ocean (salt water) and the second worst thing was to put in rice. If your friend is lucky, the damage will be very localized and repairable. I would only focus on data recovery and not a usable phone.
NO. You NEED to turn it on to access anything inside. Swapping the flash memory chip will not work. Anyone attempting to sell you data recovery software here are spammers, do not trust them and downvote/report their garbage immediately.
