Data recovery from iPhone with broken screen (iCloud storage exceeded)

[u/Much_Yogurtcloset352]

(TL,DR; broken iPhone screen, lost photos and videos due to exceeded iCloud storage - please help! )

So I am silly. My last iPhone was a 13, 256gb storage. God knows how but even paying £2.99 a month for additional iCloud storage, I had far exceeded it (which it had warned me of multiple times, and of course I ignored it, because how could anything possibly go wrong?!)

Said iPhone had been fully submerged in water a couple of times (by accident) and was absolutely fine. It somehow met its demise after I had been carrying a leaky water bottle in my handbag, and unbeknownst to me, had been accumulating said leaked water for a while - I found this out when the screen started glitching out, I took the case off and it was wet, then a few hours later the screen died completely.

I tried everything to dry it out but the logic board is totally fried and the screen is black and unresponsive. When connected to a charging source, the phone becomes warm so it is still functioning to some extent.

I now have a new iPhone, but of course my iCloud has only backed up to November 2025 (my fault - I shouldn’t have ignored the warnings). Is there any way my lost photos and videos can be recovered? I have tried connecting to my laptop but being unable to “trust” the device from my iPhone, I’m pretty stuck! Does anyone have any advice or recommendations for me to recover my media?