Comment by freeone3000

iCloud and iPhones have traditionally resisted US governmental overreach, only giving data to iCloud in cases of actual criminal prosecution against specific individuals. As well, iPhone backups in iCloud is relatively new, as are many other arbitrary storage features — it used to just be your songs and your photos! Now it’s data from all of your apps and a full phone backup. Hence the resistance: the stories of police being unable to recover data from a locked iPhone may now be over