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Use GrapheneOS so you can "unlock" your phone and enter the wipe code instead.
Even better, set it to 1234567890 or 00000000 or similar easy to guess pin, and change it to the length of your actual pin, now if someone tries to bruteforce your phone it will instantly wipe and you can make a case that it was the law enforcement who destroyed any "evidence" by their own actions if in comes up In court.
This sounds like a convenient way to have all your locally saved photos wiped by your kid
Always back up anything you don't want to loose.
How should I protect the backups? Same story?
Your backups aren't nearly as likely to be subject to an immediate civil forfiture as a phone is. Cops don't need a judicial warrent to take your phone, but they do need one to search your home legally, and if you do your offsite backups in another country, they would need the cooperation of the local authorities of that country. Strong encryption can provide a relatively safe barrier for offsite backups.
Also, it's possible to have some things that may only exist on your phone and not your server/backup system(easy biometric unlock for a password manager, or encrypted chat logs, to name a few examples).
Off site backups on some random cloud storage with client side encryption is likely best bet, one needs to have at least one off site backup anyways.
You mean you're not having your photos automatically, immediately encrypted and backed up on remote servers? ente.io will do that for you and their free plan comes with 10G of storage which is quite a few pics.
These practices and tips are not for everyday people but for high targets and work devices
Actually, these tips are for every day people (just not people whose kids can get to their phones). High targets get their ram frozen with liquid nitrogen, their PSU spliced into a battery pack, and the entire system-state backed up for retries.
In this economy??!