iPhone disabled - Connect to iTunes

Hi

My friend broke his screen, and as a result of that it entered the passcode wrong several times, so now is it saying: iPhone disabled - Connect to iTunes.

We've already tried to connect it to iTunes on the first synced mac, but it's just saying that there is a problem with the iPhone and it need to be updated or restored. So we updated it, as he don't wan't to loose his pictures, but after that it still saying, disabled connect to iTunes.

I've tried several recovery programs like, dr. phone. IOS rescue and so on. But it doesn't really work.

So we called Apple support, and they say the same thing. Connect, update, and so on..

But the problem is that, he haven't synced it with iTunes since 2015, and his iCloud backup is full and has been since 2016.....

- Is there anything to do in this case to recover the photos, some of them are of old family members who has passed away.

Like putting it in to DFU mode, connect to a terminal, or run a script or anything like that?

Thanks in advance.