Since iOS 11.4.1 in 2018, iPhones have had a setting called USB Restricted Mode that blocks USB accessories from connecting once the phone has been locked for an hour. It is common for law enforcement to take a person’s cell phone and perform a phone dump. A phone dump is when all of the call logs, messages, photos, emails, browser history, location data and anything else stored on the phone is downloaded. Usually the government will get a search warrant a while after the phone is seized.
Make sure “USB accessories” is switched to off.
A LOT of information is saved on our cell phones and, this setting can make it harder for the government to get at that data.
I have seen the government do phone dumps when representing people charged with large drug cases (more than 20 kilos), murder, promotion of prostitution, manslaughter, cyberstalking, and others. I have also successfully suppressed this evidence.
If police took your phone, call me at (713) 664-4000 before anyone searches it.
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