iPhone 15 Pro Massive & Complex Issue - It's been breaking my heart. Please help if you can
I have an iPhone 15 pro. On Wednesday night, it died during a facetime call because I didn't charge it. I turned it on and it had some weird SOS symbol and a satellite looking symbol at the top right and it felt weird but I disregarded it. However, when I tried to log in to my phone it would not accept my passcode. I know my passcode. It really threw me off. My phone started locking. I get it but I keep trying. I think I end the night with a 1 hour lock. The next morning I wake up and decided to try a different code. Doesn't work. 3 hour lock. Did some research about device recovery mode and how you can update the phone. Thought maybe that would trigger the passcode to go back to normal. Update was successful (in terms of what my laptop told me). I still have the lock on my phone but now the background is just black instead of my normal screensaver. Decide to go to the apple store. They say there's nothing they can do and when he tried all it did was reset the 3 hour timer. Eventually the timer ends and my phone is on a white screen that says "Swipe Up to Recover." Apparently, this screen is common when you do an update but your storage is too full. I was hesitant to do it but I put it in my password and it had me verify it and went into an "attempting data recovery" screen with the same white background but the big Apple and the load bar underneath it. Eventually that "loading" ends and it says "failed data recovery" and sends me back to the white screen. So long story short, I am in an infinite loop with my phone.
Now where the heart break comes in. I am an idiot and don't backup my phone especially the last couple years. So many memories. I can't lose them. They mean the world to me.
I don't even care about my phone anymore I just want the data. Is my only option to pay an expensive data recovery lab? Will it not work since it wasn't taking my password initially? It's truly been one of the worst feelings of my life knowing that it's in my hand and technically not broken but just doesn't work.
What can I do? This is a true hail mary desperation shot. I've seen other forums of people talking about it but no clear answer. I don't want a hack or too go against the process I just want my photos and videos hopefully that is understandable.
I'm also not sure what iOS it is or how to check please don't remove this post on account of that