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Carrier locks are not an Apple-only thing - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_lock

Seem to be a common feature on most phones. Don’t like it? Bug your government to outlaw the use of the feature like “Canada,[5] Chile,[6] China, Israel,[7] and Singapore”.

iTunes backups my photos. No idea how to access them though - apart from restoring to a working phone.

iTunes backups my photos. No idea how to access them though - apart from restoring to a working phone.

You should be able to go to iCloud.com and log in. If you have the E2E encryption enabled, it will ask you to give iCloud the decryption key, so the webserver can serve you the decrypted files. (This ability can be turned off if you're really paranoid.)

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