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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.
I just tried holding the power button down on my android and it doesn't reboot the phone. I think they got rid of that feature and replaced it with opening up the useless Google Assistant crap.
You can change this in the settings to make the power button a power button again.
It depends on the phone. On my Samsung phone, my only options for holding the power button are to wake bixby or bring up a lockdown menu.