What you can do if you found your iPhone disabled and you cannot access any data on this disabled device. There are two cases that your iPhone is disabled.
First, the iPhone is disabled for it is locked as you forgot the password,
If you forgot the password and enter into the incorrect password for several times, the device will become disabled. In that case, your iPhone still can be detected by computer, so that you can restore from iTunes.
Second, your iPhone became disabled for unexpected damage
Your iPhone suffered some unexpected damage, such as dropped to the ground or into water, or have jailbreak failure so that you cannot use your iPhone. You cannot reset your iPhone, and you can only access your data in iTunes backup with data recovery software.
How to restore iPhone with iTunes after disabled?
The first choice for you to restore your disabled iPhone is to use iTunes if your iPhone has not dead. You should connect your iPhone to iTunes and reset it.
Steps to restore iPhone in iTunes:
Connect your iPhone with iTunes on computer, and wait for iTunes sync with your device and create backup.
After the sync is done, you should click the phone icon to come to the device page.
Click Restore iPhone button and choose “Restore from iTunes backup”. You should select one backup to restore your device.
Steps to restore iPhone in iCloud:
If you have enabled Find My iPhone in your iCloud account, you can choose to erase your device and restore it.
Sign in iCloud.com with your Apple ID.
Click Find My iPhone icon and then click All Devices. Select the device that you want to erase. Click Erase iPhone to erase this device.
After erase is done, you can choose to restore the device.
We can easily restore disabled iPhone from iCloud and iTunes backup. However, how can we selectively recover files from iPhone? To solve this trouble, iPhone data recovery software come up. iPhone data recovery software is used on computer for iOS devices data recovery. Differ from iTunes, it allows you to selectively restore files from your iTunes backup or iPhone.
Run H Data iPhone recovery software on your computer. You can choose the recovery mode on the interface: to restore directly from iPhone, or restore from your iTunes backup.
Without iTunes backup, you can only restore your lost files from the device as the recovery should be done as soon as possible.
Connect your device with computer and select to scan from iPhone. The scanning process will last for a long time. This scanning should not be interrupted.
After scan, you can preview all the contents. Click each file type you can find the files you need.
Check the files that you need and choose a recovery path to store them on your computer.