Ask HN: Are the police allowed to unlock a phone using faceID without consent?

They have guns and will do whatever they damn well please. The legal system might slap their wrist after the face. We do not live in a nation of laws. If you care about the data don't put it on a mobile device.

https://mashable.com/article/police-try-to-unlock-handcuffed...

Suggest powering off devices when you get pulled over etc. This forces a passcode when they boot up in most cases now.

On iPhone now you don’t even have to power off. It’s enough to just get to the power off swipe screen and passcode will be required to unlock again when you hit cancel.

Probably not if you are in CA:

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/business_law/publications...