Grieving Father is Begging Apple to Unlock His Dead Son's iPhone (mirror.co.uk)

"A grieving father is begging Apple to allow him access to the photos stored on his dead son's iPhone," reports Time. In September Leonardo Fabbretti's adopted son died of bone cancer at age 13, and the father believes that two months of photographs are still stored on his son's iPhone. Last fall Apple staff attempted to retrieve the photos from their cloud-storage service, but the iPhone hadn't been synced before the 13-year-old's death. "Don't deny me the memories of my son," the father writes in a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook. The father's letter tells Apple that "Although I share your philosophy in general, I think Apple should offer solutions for exceptional cases like mine," according to a British newspaper, while 88% of respondents in their online poll believed that Apple should unlock the phone.

Comments

this isn't a problem for Apple

[ihtoit]

They unlocked my late mum's iPhone last October after they were shown the death certificate. No problem.

They tried that

[Theaetetus]

Last fall Apple staff attempted to retrieve the photos from their cloud-storage service, but the iPhone hadn't been synced before the 13-year-old's death.

They can give you access to the cloud storage account, and all synced data. They can't decrypt the phone.