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Never unlock your phone for cops. Turn off biometrics if you think you'll be encountering police. You can't be forced to enter a password or number to unlock your phone, but can be forced to use fingerprint or face id to unlock.
Once unlocked, they will make a clone of your phone's contents to search through at their leisure. They will access any open social media or other accounts and copy any messages from those also. It doesn't matter if you "have nothing to hide" they can find things to incriminate you or people you know. They can hold that data indefinitely, in case anything you've done becomes a crime later.
Instead of fumbling with your phone to turn ~~on~~ off biometrics just hold down the power button and reboot. Takes seconds and doesn't look suspicious.
Next unlock will force a pin and skip biometrics. At least on android.
On my pixel phone, it's a two step process, but you can press power and volume up. Then you choose Lockdown, and it requires a pin for the next time.
This is the Worst new "feature" I got when upgrading from pixel 4a to 8.