Stolen iPhone

[ZipZap]

Unfortunately, lots of laws are made to protect people's privacy, and usually the only ones who need the protection in these cases are the criminals. You can thank the ACLU for that.

Anyhow, if done fast, find my friends/iPhone is an excellent way to keep track of the phone. A guy came into the Pct. I was working in one day a few months ago and said someone stole his iPhone. So he showed me his girlfriend's iPhone (I did not have one at the time, so this really amazed me) and it showed me the exact location to the point we were watching it move down the street on the screen. So we loaded him into a car and took a ride to where it was on the phone. The victim pointed it out the guy who stole his phone, and it was recovered. Bad guy got new bracelets. Good guy got his phone back.

But again, this only works when done immediately.

Phone wasn't impounded?

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But they won't.

While technologically possible, they never ever do this unless there is an emergency.

Or a court order.

ATT is not in the phone tracking business and has no staff for this activity.

 

[The Game 161]

Do you guys think find my iPhone is useless unless you have a passcode on it?

 

[jonny2]

I simply can wish you will get your iphone back.

 

[NikeTalk]

Never really understood the hype behind "Find my iPhone", its nice and all but no real help if it's stolen.

 

[wackymacky]

Do you guys think find my iPhone is useless unless you have a passcode on it?

To be honest I don't think the passcode makes the slightes of difference.

A thief who's heard of FindMyiPhone will know to go to settings and disable, or if the passcode is set, to power off the device and remove the sim, then restore the thing,

What would be good is when an iDevice is restored or DFU'd or what ever, that has FindMyiPhone enabled, it transmits the computers location just like Find My Mac.

 

[Stealthipad]

I am still trying to understand the OP. He says his phone was stolen but will wait a day or two to see if it turns up in the Campus lost and found

 

[appleofmy"i"]

DONT wipe the phone!!! If it has a passcode on it why not leave it and hope he turns it on again. If you wipe it its game over.

 

[verwon]

I am still trying to understand the OP. He says his phone was stolen but will wait a day or two to see if it turns up in the Campus lost and found

I'm joining your confusion. There's a difference between lost and stolen.

 

[dmusicman385]

Phone wasn't impounded?

haha no a picture is all we needed.

 

[Erinacous]

Feeling your pain

My iphone also got recently stolen. To make matters slightly worth I just had for like a week or three. The phone is turned off/offline, but has come online occasionally so I sent him a message and remote locked it.

It happened at a birthday party, we have a suspicion who it might be. But without any evidence it's quite hard. Police doesn't want to help either and insurance won't cover it.

But I do have a question, is there an app in which it takes a picture as soon as it comes online/on? Or perhaps in which I can take a picture remotely from my macbook? It would make sense for an anti-thief app..

 

[Eager Beaver]

I am still trying to understand the OP. He says his phone was stolen but will wait a day or two to see if it turns up in the Campus lost and found

Me too?
"Stolen", like at gunpoint?
(or was it left somewhere by an irresposible owner)?

 

[ibuyufo]

Me too?
"Stolen", like at gunpoint?
(or was it left somewhere by an irresposible owner)?

That's what I'm wondering too because a lot of people here like to classify their lost stuff as stolen after it has been found by someone. If you left it by accident on a bench or dropped it out of your pocket I would not consider it stolen!

 

[bniu]

To be honest I don't think the passcode makes the slightes of difference.

A thief who's heard of FindMyiPhone will know to go to settings and disable, or if the passcode is set, to power off the device and remove the sim, then restore the thing,

What would be good is when an iDevice is restored or DFU'd or what ever, that has FindMyiPhone enabled, it transmits the computers location just like Find My Mac.

you're giving the thief too much credit. Most just steal and sell immediately, and then take that money to go buy some more drugs. A smart thief (Bernie Madoff) is too busy running ponzi schemes to be concerned with an iPhone...

 

[Eager Beaver]

you're giving the thief too much credit. Most just steal and sell immediately, and then take that money to go buy some more drugs. A smart thief (Bernie Madoff) is too busy running ponzi schemes to be concerned with an iPhone...

Possibly one of the most ignorant posts I have read on this site, congrats