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Only if the device is powered on and connected to your carrier.
If it is off or no signal, you won't be able to find it or lock it. However, in any case, no one can use your phone except for maybe using it as parts - screen, battery, etc.
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It can also be connected to WiFi - doesn't have to be a carrier. Same concept to explain how you can lock a Mac or iPod touch.
how is someone going to connect a stolen phone to wifi without their passcode? Unless WiFi is already enabled and they happen to have previously connected to an AT&T or Verizon wifi and the thief is in an area that has free wifi from a carrier.
guess the point is that if it turned on you can lock it. wonder if you can click lock it and when they turn it on it will then lock it. or does it have to be one at the same time you lock it. like a email, computer doesnt have to be on, but when you turn it on then you get them.
Yes, you can click "Lock" on Find my iPhone and it will lock whenever it comes online.
ok. thats makes sense. but thinking about icloud locked iphones, seems there has to be a way to unlock them. im sure there are a lot of idiots that buy them and think they can bypass the icloud lock, but i also know there are people that can bypass it. there are youtube videos that show how to do it. weather it works or not i dont know. i would have to have a old iphone here that id lock and see if there trick does it. the lame excuse of i forgot my password for icloud so im selling it as is is nuts, but people are buying them left and right, and not for cheap.
I see PLENTY of people offering "Icloud locked unlocking services" on my local craigslist. Anybody know if they're bluffing or there really is a way to unlock these devices?