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Re:Texas church shooting: Gunman's cellphone is locked by dingo_bat on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @09:34PM (#15649548)
If it's an iPhone, law enforcement can basically throw the phone in the trash right now.
Re:Texas church shooting: Gunman's cellphone is locked by r00fus on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @12:54AM (#15650178)
Not necessarily. iPhones that have iCloud backup Feds can get a court order to have Apple provide as the backups not encrypted with device keys.

If it's the device data they want and it's a 5s or later yeah that's likely to be difficult to get at without decapping the chip.