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Open iPhone marked as lost (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by impudentmortal@lemmy.world to c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world

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My dad passed away recently and I have his iPhone. His estranged wife is the primary holder of his phone plan and has marked the phone as lost. He was planning to divorce her after a messy breakup but passed away before he could.

I just wanted to back up the photos in the phone but can't access it at all.

Aside from asking her to unlock the phone, do I have any other options to access his photos? I doubt she'd unlock it since she knows I have the phone and marked it as missing anyway.

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[–] impudentmortal@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I checked out the article but I'm not sure I could qualify by law to retrieve his data. Since he's still legally married, my stepmom is the next of kin and is the one who could request the data.

This has been causing tons of problems since she's been planning the funeral and doing things the family doesn't approve of (like setting the date before my brother who's out of the country could get home).

Thanks for the detailed reply though. Seems like my best chance is to appeal to my stepbrother.