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I trust my vendor to supply me with genuine parts. I don't give the keys away to my vendors to fix issues. If you must, offload data from the phone and wipe it, then have it serviced. Just like you would remove precious cargo from the trunk of your car when you give it to a dealership service center.

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>offload data from the phone and wipe it

which is something Apple makes easier than any other smartphone manufacturer and which also tells you to do in case you don't feel like giving them your code

How do you do when you drop your car at a mechanic ?

Remove the bricks from the trunk first

Thats a good analogy. Or simply take my personal diary out of the glove box.

My car doesn't have access to my emails.

It has your location history though, since you apparently all face presidential level threat in this forum I guess that would be very important. They could also plant microphones and cameras !!

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