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The process for recovering a locked iphone is problematic if the user forgets both the iphone password and the icloud password (because it was only used once a year before).

That happened to a family member recently, I guess they were using face id regularly and changed their pin at one point and by the time they needed it again couldn't remember it.

The part that really pisses me off is the "10 strikes and we wipe your phone bit". That happened to me too on an infrequently used iphone last year. I'm pretty sure I would have remembered the password because it was one a few dozen pins I use, but I didn't get the chance to try all of them because the fscking phone decided to wipe itself first (not attached to icloud).

[crooked-v]

You have to specifically turn on the "Erase all data on this iPhone after 10 failed passcode attempts" option for that to happen. If you do that without being very confident about remembering your passcode, it's your own dang fault.

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> The part that really pisses me off is the "10 strikes and we wipe your phone bit". That happened to me too on an infrequently used iphone last year.

This is an optional setting, and I'm relatively certain it used to be off by default. I think my newest iPhone specifically prompted me about it during setup.