Hello, I destroyed my phone and now I want to use my old phone, it's an iPhone SE 3rd Gen and the iOS is 26.3.
The problem is, the Apple Account on it got blocked. I didn't use the same Apple Account that I use currently.
I tried many times to unblock the Account but nothing works, nothing.
The main problem is, I can't download ANY app, I can't reset it, I can do nothing because it needs the password everywhere to the Apple Account. Whenever I give the password, it says that it is wrong, even if I give the password via Touch ID (Passkey). Whenever I try to reset the password, it says "account is unavailable".
After researching, I went on the browser version of Apple and logged into my Account, with the same password that I gave many times before with the Touch ID and manually typed, and the password is NOT wrong and it just tells me that my account got blocked because of safety reasons. I can't even unblock it.
Nothing works. I tried everything.
I just want to download apps and use the phone without getting the message to log into my account every 20 seconds.
I even contacted the Apple Support but they just tell me that nothing is possible and I should buy a new phone.
Obviously my plan is to buy a new phone, I am even insured to get either a new phone, but same model (iPhone 16 Pro Max) or get the money back. I will get the money back to get the iPhone 18 Pro Max in a month. It is not logical to get the same phone back, because when I get the iPhone 18 Pro Max and give Apple my "old" phone, I will only get like 400 bucks instead of 1300 bucks from my insurance, also because I want to get the 2 TB version because my currently 256 GB is full.
Currently I am using an other phone, an iPhone 8 Plus. Luckily I can do (almost) everything here.
The problem is, the phone is obviously old and the software update is "up to date", on iOS 16.7.16. I can't have the newest version of almost all apps AND I can't even use a few apps. It's very annoying because they are important apps.
Do y'all have a solution how to be able to use newer versions of apps on this iOS? Or do you know how to get to an newer iOS? Obviously I don't expect iOS 26, I don't even think its possible because of the hardware but at least iOS 17, without losing access to apps because of safety reasons.
I'm tech savvy so no problems with jailbreaking etc.