What should I do if I lose my iPhone?Apple mobile phone stolen, locate and find mobile phone and recover it

Losing an iPhone is a tricky business.

iPhone makers have also put in a lot of effort to address the issue of stolen iPhones.

Chen WeiliangThe blog will introduce you to the "Find My iPhone" feature in this article and trycrucial moment, to help you successfully find your iPhone.

?How can I get my iPhone back if I lose my iPhone?

The "Find Phone" feature of the iPhone has the following uses:

• Forget where your phone is, you can't always borrow your phone to make a call every time, we can find it by location and ringing.
• When you do lose your phone, it can help you get it back successfully to a certain extent.
• When a cell phone is given away or sold as a second-hand transfer, it allows the old owner to lose control of the phone and no longer allows the old owner to view the new owner's privacy.
• Monitoring the whereabouts of family members, helping children, parents or middle-aged and elderly people at home, can also successfully find the iPhone, which is also a useful safety protection measure when necessary.
• There may be more usage scenarios, and you can share your successful experience with iPhone in the comments.

?Why can I get my iPhone back successfully?

Apple's "Find Phone" feature is successfulhelp youRetrieving the iPhone is achieved by relying on cloud services.

When your iPhone is connected to the Internet, it will instantly communicate with the corresponding cloud service.

If the iPhone owner has previously sent instructions to the cloud, such as remotelyPositioning :

1. The iPhone will immediately execute the instruction;
2. Via GPS, WiFi and other positioning methods;
3. Get the iPhone location and feed it back to the cloud.

☁️What is iCloud Activation Lock?

• Activation lock is what we usually call ID lock, which is called Activation Lock in English.
• Activation Lock is a new anti-theft feature added by Apple in iOS 7.Once your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch is lost or stolen, this feature will make it harder for anyone to use or sell your device.
• As long as Find My iPhone is turned on in iOS7, Activation Lock starts working immediately.
• To turn off Find My iPhone or wipe your device requires your Apple ID and password.
• Regardless of whether you upgrade recovery or DFU mode flashing, you need an ID password to activate and use.

⚙️ Find My iPhone works

When you turn on Find My [device] on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple Watch, or Mac computer with the Apple T2 Security Chip, your Apple ID is securely stored on Apple's activation servers and linked to your device.

After that, anyone who wants to turn off Find My, erase your device, or reactivate and use your device must first enter your Apple ID account password or device lock screen password.

?How to find iPhone?

log on to the web icloud.com/find, or log in to Find My iPhone on other iPhone devices.

If you set up Find My iPhone before you lost your iPhone, you can erase iPhone data.

And "Lost Mode" locks the iPhone device with a passcode:

• In Lost Mode, you can display a custom message on the screen.
• Let the people on your phone know how to reach you.Some Android phones can even take pictures and get new onescellphone number.
• Even if the device is refreshed, the ID information of the original owner's cloud service cannot be deleted, and the device will still execute the remote command issued by the owner.
• Additionally, there are features like locking and wiping data, which vary from phone to phone.
• The ability to find phones is now basically available from major smartphone makers, and many of those phones need to be turned on ahead of time.

?How does iOS enable Find My iPhone?

1. On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, open the Settings app.
2. Tap your name.
3. Tap Find.
4. If you want to let friends and family know where you are, you can turn on Share My Location.
5. Tap Find My [device], then turn on Find My [device].
   

6. To see your device's location even when it's offline, turn on Enable Offline Find.To have the device send the device location to Apple when the battery is low, turn on Send Last Location.
7. If you want to be able to find your lost device on a map, make sure Location Services is turned on.To do this, go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services, then turn on Location Services.

When the Find My iPhone feature is enabled, Activation Lock is automatically turned on, which prevents others from using or selling the stolen device.

In settings, turn on "Find My iPhone" and "Send Last Location", which will automatically report to Apple the last location of the sending device when the battery is seriously drained.

?How to recover lost and stolen Apple

You can use the Find My iPhone app on your iOS device, or log in icloud.com/find Set it up, register/login to your Apple ID.

Apple phone stolenSituation 1 : Click the Find My iPhone feature, and then click Lost Mode.

• The above instructions in this article will work if your iPhone's iCloud is signed into your Apple ID, and if Find My iPhone is enabled.

Apple phone stolenCondition 2:If you set a lock screen passcode, activated iCloud but did not turn on Find My iPhone.

• Please rest assured that even if the other party flashes the phone, it will not be able to use it (this means that the other party cannot spy on your mobile phone information)

Apple phone stolenCondition 3:If you haven't set a lock screen passcode, (this means that the other party can snoop on your phone information because you haven't set a lock screen passcode), but iCloud is activated, but the "Find My iPhone" feature is not turned on.

• Rest assured, change your Apple ID password immediately, and the other party cannot use it ▼

Apple phone stolenCondition 4:If you have a lock screen password set but iCloud is not activated.

• I'm sorry to tell you that once the other party flashes the phone and logs in to iCloud with the ID, the activation lock will be activated immediately, and the other party is the owner of this Apple mobile phone device. (This time, the other party can't spy on your lock screen password)

Apple phone stolenCondition 5:Never trust anything in the form of text messages or emails with a suffix not apple.comInformation.

• This is when scammers ask you to change your password, and scammers take your password and account.
• If you lose your iPhone, you should report it to the police immediately.
• While the odds of a successful recovery are slim, if it's on file and the police find it, they may also find your iPhone.

In addition, you can "find devices of family members":

• If your iPhone is part of a Family Sharing group, you can use any family member's device to find your iPhone.
• 最后Chen WeiliangThe blog specifically reminds you that to use this feature, family members need to set up their devices to share location information with other family members.

?How to avoid losing the SIM card of the iPhone?

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If the Apple mobile phone is lost, the SIM card in the mobile phone will not be easy to retrieve, so the service that has been bound to the mobile phone number cannot be used as usual.

The best solution is to apply using virtualeSIMCard (non-physical SIM card) Apple mobile phone can use Apple Pay to activate eSIM.

Click the link below to view the activation process of Apple Pay for eSIM ▼

🔗How to apply for an eSIM card for iPhone XS? Apple Pay eSIM activation process