My dad passed away recently and I have his iPhone. His estranged wife is the primary holder of his phone plan and has marked the phone as lost. He was planning to divorce her after a messy breakup but passed away before he could.

I just wanted to back up the photos in the phone but can’t access it at all.

Aside from asking her to unlock the phone, do I have any other options to access his photos? I doubt she’d unlock it since she knows I have the phone and marked it as missing anyway.