My iphone 5 was stolen last night.  It is offline and I am trying to track it.  When I use Icloud, it just tells me the phone is offline, which is not helpful at all.

My iphone5 was stolen last night.  It is offline and I am trying to track it.  Icloud states that it will show a grey circle if it is offline and a green one if it is online.  It is offline and it will display nothing except a picture of a phone indicating that it is offline.  Not helpful at all.  Any suggestions on how to locate the phone or at least the losers who stole it from my pocketbook.

Actually it is very helpful. First it tells you that two possible scenarios happened.
1. iphone ran out of battery.
2. iphone was stolen by someone who knows how to disable connection to service (just by turning it off or otherwise)
Second is more likely if you went to icloud.com fast enough. In that case we pretty soon are going to see another person here asking Apple to unlock "legitimately" purchased phone from eBay or pawn shop. And in that case recovery of your phone is very unlikely. So go report it to police to increase chances of recovery, just in case they turn up in legit pawn shop and move on. Good luck.

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