It&#x27;s understood that the phone manufacturers can unlock their phones with the tools available to them -- that serves many purposes like being able to refurbish old phones.  Those accessing the data who are not doing so with the intention of serving the phone owner, however, have to have a court order to access the phone.  That to me speaks highly of the phone if access outside the user of the phone is limited to organization who signed the keys locking the phone (and therefore have the certificates to make signed requests to unlock).<p>It&#x27;s not like you take it to Apple and Apple says to you &quot;Here&#x27;s the user&#x27;s data.&quot;.  There is something like a 60-90 day wait period while they analyze each individual request for approval, and do their due diligence to make sure access is justified.  Juxtapose that with a typical android phone that can be rooted without the help of the manufacturer, and then you get that the customer is better served by one process over the other.