I had my iPhone stolen and I wonder if I would be possible to completely lock the device, preventing the thief turned the phone again?

You can lock the device to prevent them from getting to your personal information if you set up mobileme, but unfortunately all the theif has to do is a forced restore and set up as new, get a new SIM and use it.

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I had my iphone stolen and it was a brand new replacement so i dont have the serial number. Can apple provide me with the serial number? since it should be on their records

so my iphone 5 kept crashing and i brought it to the apple store and got a new replacement phone. Unfortunately for me the next day it got stolen, i have the find my iphone app but it says my device is offline so i cant track it nor can i wipe the contents. I have blocked my sim, but someone told me that i could get the product itself blocked so that the horrible theif cannot use it at all. Since it was a replacement product and i lieterally just got it i dont have the serial or imei number to get it blocked. Would apple have a record of the replacement devices number? i tried using the online chat but it wont work becausae i dont have the serial number or anything. thanks in advance for your help.

nobody can track anything using a serial number really
IMEI number carrier can track a device with but only way to do it is when the police bring a warrent
find my iphone service which have to be activated before the device was stolen is what normal people can do

HT204053 I had my iphone stolen and I now have a new one and I got most of my pictures back but some very important pictures from my niece's baptism were on my other phone is there anyway to get those back? I have icloud but dont know if I set the new ph

I restored my new phone from an earlier date than my niece's baptism. I don't know if I should have restored or set up as a new phone. But my problem now is that I really want those pictures. I had icloud on that phone and the new one. Can anyone help me or tell me if I can get those pictures back. When I log into my itunes account on my computer it still shows the other phone as a device but I only see where you can remove that device. Thank you need to take a class on all this new technology.

Like a digital camera, you should be syncing your photos from iphone to a computer often. If you have been doing that, you should find the photos on the computer.
If you had been backing up you iphone to icloud, then you could restore the backup, but many users have complained here that they lost all their photos when doing a restore, none seem to have been in the backup. Since your new phone is new, then try doing a restore (you should have done that when you first set up the new phone - if you did and the photos did not come back, then they are lost).
To restore, look through this help page, scroll to the bottom for restore instructions.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4137?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

I had my iPhone stolen last night and now want to know how do I access my iCloud storage?

I had my iPhone stolen last night and now want to know how do I access my iCloud storage?

If you've wiped the device remotely then it is no longer associated.
You could also change the password for your Apple ID.

I have had my laptop stolen, and am trying to up load my music from my iphone to a new computer but how do i do it with out loosing everything?

I have had my laptop stolen, and am trying to up load my music from my iphone to a new computer but how do i do it with out loosing everything?

See this support article:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1848
You can also download most of your content again from the iTunes Store:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519
For content not purchased from the iTunes Store, check out this post from Zevoneer for some iPod/iPhone media recovery options:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10570955#10570955
Regards.

I had an iphone 4s and it worked nice with facetime and imessage using my phone number but it was stolen on December so I buy a new iphone 4s using the same cellphone number but now imessage and facetime does not work with my number, it only works with

I had an iphone 4s and it worked nice with facetime and imessage using my phone number but it was stolen on December so I buy a new iphone 4s using the same cellphone number but now imessage and facetime does not work with my number, it only works with my apple ID. Please Help me I speak Spanish so if my English is not ok I´m sorry about it.
Do you think that apple has to reset in their database of the old serial number attached with my phone number and that’s why I can´t activate imessage and facetime with my number in the new iphone 4s??

I understand all of this Meg; that is why I bought an Iphone; but never expected my phone not even give a at least a 24 or even 12 hours....I work 12 hour shifts and also would expect to have to charge each night but not twice a day or more. I am not always somewhere I can charge my phone.
Your points are true; however it doesn't help me......

I had my iphone stolen in brazil and did not set up an icloud account. can i still find my phone?

I had my iphone stolen in brazil and did not set up an icloud account. can i still find my phone?

No.

Hello my name is jordan arthur, I had an iphone 4s and was stolen and was unable to trace it by searching my iphone, would you track them through your system?

hello my name is jordan arthur, I had an iphone 4s and was stolen and was unable to trace it by searching my iphone, would you track them through your system?

This is a user-to-user technical support forum. You cannot communicate with Apple in this forum. But to answer your question, Apple cannot track a phone for you. Only you can track it, and only if Find my iPhone was enabled on it, and only them if it is powered on and connected to a cellular or WiFi network.

I have just had my iPhone stolen

I have just had my iPhone stolen. I have an iPad and am worried that someone can access all my stuff. I am 64 and not technical and have tried to find out what to do from the help page, but I really need some simple guidelines on what to do. I have not got a lock on the phone, stupid me. I have stuff on the iPad and iPhone (cloud I think, but I don't really understand how that works anyway) HELP!

Lost or stolen
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5668
Lost Mode
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2700
Reporting lost or stolen iPad
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2526

I have had my iphone stolen , with no tracker !

Hi what should i do next . i have had my iphone stolen . I have reported it to the police .

Call your carrier/cell phone provider and see if they will block it. If you did not activate and use the Find my iPhone feature there's not much else you can do.

HT1267 I had one iphone stolen so I bought a new one now I want to load Find Iphone so I can catch the thief next time. How do I do this?

I had my Iphone stolen so I went bought another one and want to load Find Iphone but don't know how. Can you help me?

iCloud: Set up Find My iPhone

I had a iPhone 3G and I change it in to a iPhone 4G 32GB! I have 3 apple ID account. The one I used is edited by host and I know my password but it ask me for my security question and I forgot it! It send a veify email the answer the an email to blu

I had a iPhone 3G and I change it in to a iPhone 4G 32GB! I have 3 apple ID account. The one I used is <edited by host> and I know my password but it ask me for my security question and I forgot it! It send a veify email the answer the an email to <edited by host> and the email <edited by host> that is my other apple ID and the password work on apple but my yahoo account I forgot my password and security question and it won't verify to my email on to my apple email. so it send the answer to <edited by host> and I can't get it! So Can u do something? Both account r also on my iCloud. I can open both apple account but it won't let me buy nothing on my <edited by host> ! On my <edited by host> that one dose let my buy thing but I had lot of thing I bought on <edited by host> I bought lots of movies music and app. I spend lot of money on this account.

It's a really bad idea to post your email addresess - it's an invitation to spam - and I've asked the Hosts to remove them.
This is a user-to-user forum and no-one on here can take any direct action. If your Yahoo address is not working that's something you would need to take up with Yahoo - have you checked it by sending yourself an email to it?
Otherwise you will need to contact Support: go to https://expresslane.apple.com/ and click on 'iTunes' in the center column and then 'iTunes Store' in the right-hand column and proceed from there.

I had an iphone 4, and I have just gotten an iphone 5. How do I restore everything from my old phone to my new one?

I had an iPhone 4, and I have just gotten an iPhone 5. How do I restore all of my content and settings from iCloud. The sales lady skipped through that option when she "set up" my phone...

When you go through Setup Assistant on a new iOS device, choose "Restore from iCloud Backup" and enter your iCloud account and password. You will see the three most recent backups for each of the devices on which you enabled Backup. Choose from which backup to restore.
Learn how to replace your current iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with a newly purchased iOS device. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2109

I had an iphone 4 and when I downloaded the IOS7 started having problems. Gone the phone keypad, could not type more names of my contacts in the phone search. I decided to buy the iphone 5S and since downloaded the IOS7.1.2 the search of yo

I had an iphone 4 and when I downloaded the IOS7 started having problems. Gone the phone keypad, could not type more names of my contacts in the phone search. I decided to buy the iphone 5S and since downloaded the IOS7.1.2 the search of your phone contacts it takes to open or write

dedegodoy wrote:
I decided to buy the iphone 5S and since downloaded the IOS7.1.2 the search of your phone contacts it takes to open or write
What does that mean? What is your technical support question?

TS3682 i had a iPhone 4 and then got a new computer, i installed iTunes but i couldnt sync with my iTunes it didnt see the iPhone, i got a new iPhone 5C and up dated it via iCloud and still my computer will no sync with the phone, again it fails to see it

Hi
I had a iPhone 4 and then got a new computer, I installed iTunes to it but my new computer refused to sync with my phone, i backed up my phone via icloud and purchased tracks etc from iTunes, but now i have a new iPhone 5C and I backed it up via the icloud, not all data was transfered, music etc.
Again my computer will not sync with the new phone, it doesnt see the phone within my libary, doesn't give an option to do any thing with phone
Can so one please let me know were Kim going wrong, I have authorized my computer to itunes I really don't know what to do now?

Need to Resume download to complete the ongoing Process.
Last Resort, put the iPhone in DFU mode (Google How to do that). Connect in iTunes. Follow on-screen prompts to Restore. All Data would be lost, if not backed up earlier.
To save the photographs you may have to use third party software. Google is your friend.

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