How to unlock and backup iPhone when touch is broken

This shows you how to gain access to your iPhone when the touch digitizer is all broken and you only have the display, home button and camera to nagivate the dialog boxes and menus.

In mine case the touch IC, wifi and bluetooth IC on the mainboard was broken after being run over by a bus tire

Unlock passcode

• Go to Siri by holding the Home button and say Enable VoiceOver to enable USB keyboard access
• Get the Lightning to USB adapter from Apple
• Connect a regular USB keyboard
• Enter the passcode and press the Return-key to gain access to the phone

The same works if you have a pre-paired Bluetooth keyboard.

Enable Trust from iTunes computer

This is a bit more tricky as the touch is broken and you can't use the keyboard to press Trust on the dialog that pops up when you connect the phone to a new computer.

If you already have trusted the computer before, you can just click Backup in iTunes and be done.

• Configure Switch Control to enable by three-press the Home-button using the USB keyboard
  • Use the arrow keys to navigate the options
  • Press both Up and Down keys for tap
  • Press Escape to go back
• Add some Switches, Camera and move left for Tap and Camera move right to Move to next option
• Triple-click the Home button and move your head to the left to enable Switch Control when the dialog box appears - note the USB access will disable
• Connect the phone via USB to iTunes and when the Trust dialog box appears, move your head to the left to tap the Trust button
• Backup via iTunes