These recovery methods will be most effective if you’ve recently backed up your iPhone to iCloud or iTunes. Should you find yourself with a disabled iPhone, you’ve got a few methods at your disposal for recovering your device.

That’s an excellent security measure in the event of a lost iPhone, but it’s frustrating if you haven’t backed up your account in quite some time. There’s one other potential pitfall if your iPhone gets locked down after ten failed attempts to enter your passcode - you may have set your iPhone to erase itself after those 10 failed attempts.