As Matthew Green pointed out a few years ago ( http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/06/can-apple-read-your-imessages.html http://blog.cryptographyengine

As Matthew Green pointed out a few years ago ( http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/06/can-apple-read-your-imessages.html http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/06/can-apple-re... ), if you can recover your iMessages after losing your device and resetting your password, then that demonstrates that Apple does have the technical capability to read your iMessages without your consent. And you can, so they do.