For years, phone forensics firms pretty much consistently had non-public exploits that would allow compromising even locked phones. As recently as 2019, Cellebr

For years, phone forensics firms pretty much consistently had non-public exploits that would allow compromising even locked phones. As recently as 2019, Cellebrite publicly claimed that they can attack any iPhone with up to date software: https://www.wired.com/story/cellebrite-ufed-ios-12-iphone-hack-android/ https://www.wired.com/story/cellebrite-ufed-ios-12-iphone-ha... And those are publicly known capabilities. You should assume that potential adversaries will have more than that. Am I certain that such exploits are known for the very most recent iPhone/iOS? No. But it would still be foolish to bet on them not being known.