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Padlock at the top of an iPhone: what does it mean?

On an iPhone it means the phone is locked.

What Apple says

What it looks like
A closed padlock.
Shown by
iPhone (Apple)

Telling it apart

A padlock inside a circular arrow is the portrait orientation lock, not the phone lock.

Icons to compare

Sources

Each meaning above is taken from the maker’s own support page, fetched and read on the date shown. The drawing is ours; the real icon on your phone may be drawn a little differently and can change with software updates.