Find My iPhone Stolen/What to Do?

My iPhone 4 was stolen and according to Find My IPhone, the thief turned on the phone and quickly shut it off. I have a Pending Erase on it but got a new phone. If the stolen phone is turned back on, will Find my Iphone find it?

It should. There is a bug in iOS that can disable Find-My-iPhone, but it won't work if the phone was passcode locked.  In any case, activation lock is still there, so the phone will be useless if reset or restored.

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  • Hi My Iphone has just been stolen and I cant use 'find my iphone' feature what should I do now?

    Hi My Iphone has just been stolen and I cant use 'find my iphone' feature what should I do now, it has important notes and photos?

    Change all your passwords. Notify your carrier and the police of the theft. Check to see if your homeowners or renters insurance may cover some of the cost of replacing it.

  • My iphone is stolen and I have not activated Find My Iphone app, what do I do? Help, please.

    My iphone was stolen at a party last night and I'm worried a fob might've taken it. Unfortunately, I did not have a lock on it nor have I activated my Find My iPhone app on my phone tho I have already downloaded it. I would love to track it down, or at the very least, erase photos or all data if possible. Please help?

    There is nothing you can do to locate, lock or erase your dataif you didn't activate Find My iPhone.  (What did you thing the purpose doing so was??)
    What you can do now is report the loss to your carrier and get service disconnected, as well as report to your local police.

  • HT201365 How would i use someone else's iPhone to find my iPhone? what App to I need to run to search for my iPhone

    How would i use someone else's iPhone to find my iPhone? what App to I need to run to search for my iPhone

    Settings>general>resets>erase all content and settings.
    That will put it back to its out of the box state. Set it up with your own apple Id.

  • I lost my iPhone 4 yesterday. However, I hadn't installed Find my iPhone. What can I do? I still have serial numbers of that phone.

    I lost my iPhone 4 yesterday. However, I hadn't installed Find my iPhone. What can I do? I still have serial numbers of that phone.

    Change your passwords.
    Report it to the police.
    Alert your carrier.
    Buy a new phone.

  • IPad with IOS 6.0.1 stuck on message from Find my iPhone. What to do?

    iPad with IOS 6.0.1 stuck on message from Find my iPhone. What to do?

    Quit the app completely. Go to the home screen first by tapping the home button. Double tap the home button and the task bar will appear with all of your recent/open apps displayed at the bottom. Tap and hold down on any app icon until it begins to wiggle. Tap the minus sign in the upper left corner of the app that you want to close. Tap the home button or anywhere above the task bar.
    Or...
    Reboot the iPad by holding down on the sleep and home buttons at the same time for about 10-15 seconds until the Apple Logo appears - ignore the red slider - let go of the buttons.

  • I have my iPhone stolen, what to do now?

    My iPhone 4 has been recently stolen. I lodge a complaint and I started the practice to block the IMEI code in Italy.
    I had the find my iPhone-application installed but it's not capable to locate my smartphone
    What else can I do now? Must I inform Apple about what happened? In which way? Can they do something?
    Sorry for my English, I'm Italian!

    Apple can not do anything about it. If the thief has turned the phone off or wiped it, Find my iPhone will not be able to locate it. There's really nothing you can do beyond what you've done. What you should do is change all your passwords immediately!

  • If I have enabled Lost Mode on an iPad via the Find My iPhone App what is able to be accessed on the iPad should someone steal it and try to use it?

    I would like to know what is accessible on an iPad that has been stolen and Lost Mode has been enabled via the Find My iPhone App.

    Missnu22 wrote:
    SNIP...
    ... but they aren't answering my questions.
    [1] Did I lose the ability to track the iPad now that I've selected to Erase it?
    [2] Or can I stop that since its "Pending"?
    [3] Also if there is a way to access the iPad and be able to Rename it and access Camera why are they continuing to ask for my password?
    [4] if they can do that what's stopping them from being able to access other features on the ipad?
    It is my understanding from these documents that if it is on and connected to the internet you can track it. In there it tells how tell if it is online by the color of the dot.
    Read carefully, it is all in there
    I still think this person is bluffing, but what confuses me is how this person knew how to contact you (?) You must not have had any security on it at all when lost.
    Likely nothing (see #3)
    If it were mine, I would erase it to make an expensive paperweight out of it and call it lessons learned - that is if at this point you still can, punch the button!
    I can only go by what the Apple documents have told us, as your situation seems totally unique to any I have heard.

  • I erased my macbook air and reinstalled the disc that came with it, but now iTunes wont find my iphone. What should I do?

    I erased my macbook air because it was running really slow (it didn't resolve the problem). I reinstalled the disc that came with it (Mac OS X 10.6.8), but now iTunes cant find my iphone. I need to back up my data from my iphone 4s to my computer so I can transfer the info to my iphone 5. Can anyone help?
    Stephanie

    Don't know if ubuntu had repartition everything but you could try pressing F11 repeatley after power on button is pressed.
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  • I have lost my iphone and the power was turned off when i lost it and i dont have find my iphone installed what can i do?

    I have lost my iPhone 4s and i had it turned off when I laid it down somewhere and I have not installed the find my iPhone app. Is ther anyway possible to locate it.

    Nope.  If you didn't have find my iphone turned on, you will not be able to locate it.  File a police report, and contact your carrier.
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5668

  • HT1212 I have forgotten my new passcode on iphone and also have find my iphone activated. what do i do?

    Hi . I have forgotten my new passcode on my iphone and also have the find my iphone activated! Is there anything I can do to fix this? I started to restore it on my computer but it won't let me go past the find my iphone activation part. also i am wondering if there is something beginning to go wrong with it as i cannot switch it off and it only gave me one chance with the passcode before it activated? Thanks

    sadly you cant, the only option you have is to put into recovery mode and restore device. look for article ht1808 here on apple site

  • Iphone stolen what to do

    I lost my IPHONE and want to delete all info on it. how can i locate it

    The only way to locate/disable/erase any lost/stolen iPhone/iPod Touch is through Find My Phone or a similar app. However, this requires that Find My Phone be setup/activated, on your phone, before it was lost/stolen. You would then login at iCloud.com & try to locate it. This requires the phone be turned on & have an Internet connection. There is no other way to locate a lost/stolen iPhone. Apple can't/won't help you, nor will your carrier. Report the loss to the Police, your carrier & Insurance company. Change all of your passwords.
    If your carrier offers Blacklisting & they Blacklist the phone, it will be unusable as a phone.
    If locked with a passcode, all a thief or whoever finds it has to do is force the phone into recovery mode & restore it. While this deletes all data on the phone, it also removes the passcode so the phone can then be used as a phone or touch.

  • Icloud & Find my iphone - Stolen Phone Content

    Hi,
    I've been looking without success for an answer on my query.
    Someone has stolen my iphone 4S today, I had findmyiphone app running as per default settings and logged on to http://www.icloud.com/find and it said Device offline.
    The phone is turned off as we've been trying to ring it so being offline on http://www.icloud.com/find is understandable.  I was able to use the Lock function and then the Wipe function on the website however I was then told that the Wipe function means I wouldnt be able to then locate the phone with an internet signal because the wipe would occur.
    I then tried to undo the wipe and selected the cross in the Device menu, it wasnt very clear it was going to delete the device but it did.
    My http://www.icloud.com/find link now says No Devices.  Apple are now closed and I'll have to wait until Monday to call them, but in the mean time is there anyway to cancel the wipe and restore the device to http://www.icloud.com/find so I can monitor it?  Is this something Apple will be able to help me with Monday?
    Thank you in advance.

    Marcus1981 wrote:
    but in the mean time is there anyway to cancel the wipe and restore the device to http://www.icloud.com/find so I can monitor it? 
    Sorry, no.
      Is this something Apple will be able to help me with Monday?
    Nope.

  • HT5824 cant locate my iphone on find my iphone app, what else can i do to find it?

    how can i locate my iphone when its offline?

    You can't, not until it goes back online.  You can try looking for it and/or calling your number to see if an honest person who found it would answer.
    Place it in lost mode (see http://help.apple.com/icloud/#/mmfc0f0165).  You will be notified by email if and when it goes back online.  Then change your iCloud password to prevent someone who may find it from taking over your iCloud account: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2617.
    Also read this: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5668.

  • HT1212 my home button is broken and i dont have find my iphone.. what to do to  restore

    MY home button is broken and my ipod is disabled cuzz i forgot the password how to restore it?

    Place the iPod in recovery mode using one of these programs and then restore via iTunes
    For PC
    RecBoot: Easy Way to Put iPhone into Recovery Mode
    If necessary:
    Download QTMLClient.dll & iTunesMobileDevice.dll for RecBoot
    and                         
    RecBoot tip
    For MAC or PC       
    The Firmware Umbrella - TinyUmbrella

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