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It’s a risk. But it also takes a few hours to restore from backup and there’s a bunch of things that (sensibly) don’t restore and require manual setup.

I know Apple will never ask for your passcode but in the case of a repair shop that promises 15 minute service it’s kinda necessary unless you want it to take far longer and annoy them.

Ultimately with it locked down with screentime the only personal data I had an issue with was iCloud Keychain. Honestly I don’t know why Apple lets children access the full settings anyway. It would be trivial to add a screen time restriction for all features of settings except the screentime pane.

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