If you want to access someone’s private information on an up-to-date iPhone 6S or 6S Plus without a passcode—which we do not recommend—here are the steps:

  1. Start Siri, or say, “Hey Siri.”
  2. Ask Siri to search Twitter
  3. When Siri asks what to search for, tell her the end of any email address, like “@gmail.com”
  4. Find a tweet in the results with a full email address
  5. Click on that tweet
  6. Using the 3D Touch function on the phone, hard press on the email address
  7. Swipe up and click “Add to existing contact”
  8. You’ll then have access to all of that phone’s contacts

Alternatively, if you choose “Add new contact,” you can click on the photo box that pops up, and scroll through all the photos on that phone. Note that these steps only work on newer iPhones with Apple’s 3D Touch feature.

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