I just changed my phone # earlier today and my girlfriend is still getting my iMessages from my previous #
Anyone else find it absurd that Apple never even really acknowledged this problem, and didn't even mention the fact that it was fixed?
What does Apple have to gain from being so uncommunicative about security issues? I can understand keeping the latest new product under tight wraps, but this is stuff that, if not kept in the open... you start to wonder if they might have nefarious intentions.
6. Really stop diddling. Send the Finnish Mafia.If the issue is logins for multiple services, have a login after stolen or wipes at an Apple server that enables all default features with cloud preferences.
Earth to Apple, please come in.
Your iDevice has been stolen and we have identified the location of the perps. What do you want to do?
1. Go there personally and kick their a$$.
2. Call the police and report it.
3. The police suck, call my cousin Sam and tell him to hold the forgiveness.
4. Send three hot chicks over to persuade them to cough it up.
5. Stop diddling. Send the Russian Mafia.
In addition, wiping your iPhone remotely using Find My iPhone will now disable the stolen device from receiving iMessages.
I just changed my phone # earlier today and my girlfriend is still getting my iMessages from my previous #
Everyone??
Speak for yourself, please...
Turn off iMessage (and Facetime - only necessary if that was also tied to the old number too - but may as well play it safe).
Reboot your iphone.
Leave iMessage disabled for a while - not sure how long - it just needs to trickle the SIM data into the OS. An hour should do it - if not leave it overnight.
Then turn iMessage back on and it should be associated with your new number.
I just changed my phone # earlier today and my girlfriend is still getting my iMessages from my previous #
Wow. Only took one year and a plethora of iMessage downtimes to fix this gaping privacy hole.
When are Apple going to introduce 'enter pass code to switch off', so that a thief can't simply turn your iPhone off to prevent you tracking it through Find my iPhone?
Stubborn Apple, they need to change this attitude - at least now when everyone is a bit sick of them overall...
I'm glad this make life easier for people including, those who steal iphones. But I would like it if I could press a button to blacklist any carrier from ever using my stolen iphone again, or a button that can turn my stolen iPhone into a brick.
I just changed my phone # earlier today and my girlfriend is still getting my iMessages from my previous #
When are Apple going to introduce 'enter pass code to switch off', so that a thief can't simply turn your iPhone off to prevent you tracking it through Find my iPhone?
Likely never since its pointless. All a thief has to do is know how to bypass the code by throwing the phone into force recover mode. Same way that you can unbrick a phone that your kids screwed by banging on kids too many times. And they won't block entering force recovery by a 'thief' because of said latter need which probably happens more than phones getting stolen that actually have a passcode on them (more folks are walking around with no code than actually having one)
No worries...I don't have a smartphone.