Friend passed away unexpectedly, mother would like info/get into phone

[Phone Junky]

This puzzles me. If I lost a loved one, I'm sure I would go through all of the emotions that one does in such a situation. In the midst of my grieving, it would never occur to me to want to get into their phone. That's their private stuff. If there was anything in there that they thought I should know, they would have told me. They're gone and anything in that phone won't bring them back.

 

[ipooed]

Just a thought here, a few months ago when I was at the Apple Store the tech and myself conversated heavily somewhere along the convo popped up the question which is the best way to restore? Why do some use DFU mode, his response was the only time "they" use DFU to restore a phone is if someone forgot their passcode.

So maybe back the phone up to iTunes and if find my iPhone is turned off restore the phone via DFU mode?

This was just a thought though, make sure you've exhausted all other options first.

 

[dugbug]

Photos stored on iCloud are not encrypted. iCloud E-mails are not stored at rest encrypted. And when someone resets their password and restores a phone from iCloud backup? Not encrypted either. This is why account login credentials (like e-mail settings on the Mail app) and health data are not kept with iCloud backups, but are kept on local, password-encrypted iTunes backups. The iCloud backup is not encrypted.

just a correction: iCloud backups are encrypted both during transport and at rest on the servers.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303


as is iCloud drive... and photos.

mail and notes are not encrypted at rest on the servers.