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 ITM! HELP! My iPhone password was entered wrong too many times and now says, "iPhone Unavailable" with no time limit to try again. I haven't backed up in a while and have pictures and videos of my kids on there. Can anyone help me reopen it without restoring it and losing everything??
All I see is "Erase iPhone" or "Emergency" - I have watched & followed numerous videos of people tapping "codes" into the emergency phone field which I'm now thinking are just BS for clicks and views as don't work! 
 @4c346cbd 
According to this, you are screwed
https://macpaw.com/how-to/iphone-unavailable
It required 10 attempts with an invalid password to get to that point and is protecting your personal data.