iPhone X Won’t Restore From iTunes

All owners of the iPhone X must learn to solve the issue when their phone won’t restore from iTunes. Remember that you can always recover data of the iPhone X after you see the pop up that the phone is connected to iTunes.

Connect to iTunes

Connect your iPhone X to the computer
Open iTunes
Select the iPhone (from the sidepane or from top-right of the screen)
In the Summary tab, click on Restore
If iTunes proceeds with a problem-free restore, your device will be wiped clean and restored as a new device. You can then carry on restoring it from an iCloud ID until iPhone goes into the blank state. (Black screen). Now connect the iPhone to iTunes and restore (iTunes will detect that a device is in recovery mode)

How to fix iPhone X disabled connect to iTunes without a backup

The iTunes would not be able to backup the iPhone X if it is locked has is never been backed up. But there’s still a solution for this if the iPhone X has been locked or disabled using the iTunes method and unfortunately, with this method, you will be able to restore it but all of the data, apps, apps data, photos, music, videos and even contacts will be wiped away.

Use iCloud

For all those owners of iPhone X who used the iCloud to set up and backup have the chance to recover all the important stuff on their device such as apps, apps data, music, photos and contacts in iCloud. By using iCloud, you will have the assurance to save almost everything that’s in the iPhone X. The common reason why all the Apple smartphones get disabled is due to the incorrect password entry. Owners can also use other Apple device such as the iPhone SE to check out the data of their iPhone X if it is synced with the iCloud account. You can login to your Apple ID via Settings → iCloud and then sync the device to see if contacts, mail, photos and other app data are available as a backup.