I have an iPhone 6 which is currently broken, it's basically dead forever it won't even turn on even after multiple hours of charging. I don't have another iPhone 6 but I do have an iPhone 5. I was wondering if I can take the sim card out of my 6 and put it in my 5 and it still transfer all the data even though they are different generations of iPhones.
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You can always get a new sim card for your old iphone. Go to your current carrier and explain you need a new sim for the iphone 5 (which uses a micro sim) iphone 6 uses a nano sim which is the smallest sim card in use today. You can also see about getting a micro sim adapter for your current nano sim. Now to transfer your data. Hopefully you got yourself a ln icloud backup. If so, simply factory reset your iphone 5 and restore from icloud.
If the question is about transferring stuff from the sim card. That's a no. The sim cards purpose is to connect your device to a specific carrier with a specific phone number. The only thing that could be on the sim card is contacts. But iphones don't have the function to write to a sim card so that removes that option.
If you don't have a backup. And your phone is completely shot. Then taking it to a phone repair shop would be the last option. But its not going to be cheap. You can also inquire about getting the device on long enough to transfer data using a data transfer application (i use switch mobile transfer for these cases) both devices must be on the same wifi. Both devices must download and run the application for this to work.
Other than that there's not really any other solution but you're welcome to keep looking if this isn't you were looking/hoping for.