this is a good question.

1) i don't really have anything to hide / i'm not doing crimes

however i also:

2) don't want to give my unlocked phone to a border force so they can download my entire life

but if i am compelled to unlock a blank phone to a border force:

3) they will suspect me of doing crimes

It's not a difficult answer—I bring a burner phone with me when traveling internationally because I don't want to run any risk of a thief getting the keys to the kingdom. Sure, I could remote wipe if that happened, but it feels a lot safer to just not have a phone with real data on it at all.

You're not the first person they've detained who didn't want to bring their real phone with them for totally innocent reasons.

My workplace does this for phones and laptops when people travel overseas. I thought it was pretty standard stuff nowadays.

How do you make sure they don't get their hands on the actual phone? Do you hide it?

They leave it at home probably.

Damn, are you serious? DON'T BRING IT WITH. How is that hard to understand?

Ok, so live like rms. I thought lolinder brings both their main phone and a decoy burner. No need to scream at me.

Unfortunately I need to use my phone from time to time.

"give me the man, and I will find the crime"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_me_the_man_and_I_will_giv...

I’m asking a person who said that they consider the border guards a tiny risk compared to all the real ones that motivate him to wipe his phone.