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by mistercow 3772 days ago
That won't help. The problem is that the phone is signed in with the old password, and so it can't do automatic backups. If they had turned the phone on near a wifi network before changing the password, it would have auto-backed-up and they'd be able to get at whatever was on it through the iCloud backup.

Since they can't get into the phone, they now can't do that even if they know what the password is (which they probably do).