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Police want the password to your phone (reason.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Ah. Then yeah, emergency mode won't suffice for protecting the full contents of the disk.

I can't say Apple actually does this, but it is possible to protect important data by further encrypting user data with a separate encryption key derived from the passcode, and then clearing the key whenever the screen is locked.