How to backup photos from bricked iPhone (slide to upgrade) after upgrading to iOS 9

Hey guys I have also experienced the iOS 9 (slide to upgrade) bug. Another problem was that the phone have never been synced with any itunes so I had no backup.

The most important were the photos in the phone, so I plugged it into my computer, but I got the notice that I have to tap on “Trust This Computer“.
Same thing in itunes, you have to unlock the phone, bla bla.

This is what worked for me:

  1. Connect your iPhone to a computer
  2. Hard restart (force restart) your iPhone. If you don’t know how, follow the steps on https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201559
  3. Get to the point where you get the apple logo with “loading” bar below.IMG_2529
  4. Hard restart (force restart) it again
  5. When it boots up you should get this warning in itunesScreen Shot 2015-09-18 at 9.21.31 PM
  6. There is “slide to upgrade” message on your iPhone, so you have to slide and after it should ask you for your passcode, enter it and wait till the system loads up
  7. Then you have to make to a point where you will get something like “Upgrade finished” and “Continue” button.IMG_2530
  8. In the top bar you should see the top bar with carrier, battery …
  9. Now you should be able to tap the “Trust This Computer“
  10. If not, try to make a call with the phone (obviously you can’t make outcoming call, but you can answer any incoming one)
  11. Now you should be able to tap the “Trust This Computer” and see the iPhone in your itunes

 

Hope it helped, and feel free to post comments below.

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  • mmax

    I cant get this to work. itunes just says that I have to trust the computer and my phone keeps cycling through the partial load bar and swipe to upgrade. how did you get the other screen to come up?

    • http://stefankrajnik.com/ Stefan Krajnik

      After the partial loading I was able to “slide to upgrade” the screen with “continue” button appeared (step 7) and when I tapped “continue” I had another screen with “slide to upgrade” that was “frozen”

      • lynnielulu

        This did not work for me. I didn’t get to where it says Trust Your Computer and so i can’t see my phone in iTunes. My phone also keeps cycling through to “slide to upgrade”. I am loosing faith in correcting this problem without wiping my phone.

        • mmax

          This is the same thing that is happening to me. I went to verizon today to try and get help and they said i was out of luck and had to buy a new phone…That just seem so wrong to me. there has to be something.

  • Kumudu Bandarage

    Surely can get the photos. But worried about other contacts and notes which is also important. Should make this a lesson always to backup your phone. But Apple MUST provide a solution here.