HT201365 Stolen iPhone 5 but installed Find My Phone after it was stolen and bought new phone. Can locate old phone.

My iPhone 5was stolen but unfortunately I installed the find my phone app after it was stolen and now have another iPhone. I can still track my stolen iPhone on my iPad and it is in my neighborhood but I can't exactly knock on the door and demand it back. If I play the sound and send messages they appear on my new phone, however. If I can't get my old phone back I want to make it impossible for the new user to operate it. I have erased all the data on the old phone to the best of my knowledge. I don't want to erase it as I'm scared all the data on my new phone will be erased.please help. I am in Indonesia.

Trevorlucas wrote:
My iPhone 5was stolen but unfortunately I installed the find my phone app after it was stolen
But did you enable Find My iPhone in settings on your stolen phone before it was stolen? If you didn't, you can't track it or do anything else using Find My iPhone.
Trevorlucas wrote:
I can still track my stolen iPhone on my iPad and it is in my neighborhood
How are you doing that if you didn't enable Find My iPhone on it before it was stolen? Are you sure you aren't tracking your new phone rather than your old one?
If I play the sound and send messages they appear on my new phone
That's an indication that you are tracking your new phone, not your old one.

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