Article doesn't mention how you're an asshole to all your friends and family if you handed your phone over.

Ethically, you'd need to get consent from every person you took a photo of and every person you've ever emailed or messaged. Once you get their permission to pass their data over to the police, only then can you hand your phone to them without being an asshole.

I've long held that my phone is a single point of failure and that I should be able to function without it. So I don't do banking on my phone, I still carry a wallet even if I do have Apple Pay and I will certainly carry physical identification until I'm legally unable to.

Use distress pin. Wipes the phone. Restart from backup.

get a cheap decoy phone and exclusively use it for watching mukbang videos and messaging "your ex" (you) to take you back

Or learn about app pinning (android) and guided access (iOS)

You shouldn't put anything really important in a google/apple phones