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The Manhattan dentist charged with peddling child porn and trading root canals for meth has two weeks to decide whether he wants to give up his iPhone pass code to prosecutors so they can examine the device, a federal judge said Friday.

Prosecutors won’t be ready to cut Dr. John Wolf, 59, a plea deal until they’ve finished reviewing his computer files and phone contents.

“Once the government is able to review these.. We believe we will be in a position to offer a plea agreement in this case,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Moira Penza.

If Wolf doesn’t give them his six-digit passcode, the FBI will have to work on unlocking it on their own, she said.

“We may just consent and give them the code,” defense lawyer Marc Agnifilo told Federal Judge William Kuntz.

Kuntz gave Wolf until April 29 to decide.

The Justice Department and the FBI have butted heads with Apple, which has refused to assist them in unlocking iPhones.

Most recently, Apple refused a court order to unlock a phone belonging to San Bernardino terrorist Syed Rizwan Farook. The FBI ultimately unlocked the phone without Apple’s help.

Wolf was busted in November after a two-month probe found he’d been hawking child porn and fixed a drug dealer’s teeth in exchange for methamphetamine, prosecutors said.

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