There’s being vigilant about iPhone privacy, and then there’s this.

A Broadway exec whose husband died in a freak accident had to go to court just so he could access the man’s iCloud account and retrieve some family photos.

Nederlander Organization Vice President Nick Scandalios said in court papers that his husband, former champion gymnast and Hollywood stuntman Ric Swezey, died suddenly in May 2017 at age 45, leaving behind Scandalios and their 10-year-old twins.

“Ric and I did not contemplate the need for written consent to access our photographs or his Apple account,” Scandalios said in the filing. “However . . . it was understood that we gave, to each other, implicit consent to access many of the other’s digital assets.”

But Apple refused to provide Scandalios with access to Swezey’s account, so he turned to Manhattan Surrogate’s Court.

Nine months later the court has given him access, noting that only communications such as texts or emails, and not digital property such as photographs, are protected under privacy laws.

Apple reps did not return ­messages.