I lost my iPhone last night and I need you to lend me a hand

Submitted by No-Life-480 t3_10nm71q in iphone

Last night my iPhone got stolen at a club. At some point they turned it off but it’s still showing the location even if the phone is off. Right now I can see they moved the phone to location relatively close to me like three hours ago! But I cannot get to make the phone ring from the Find my app. What should I do? Please help I am desperate.

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trtsmb t1_j69i7wr wrote

If your phone was stolen, report it to the police and ask them to retrieve it.

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No-Life-480 OP t1_j69id4c wrote

I already reported but they said they cannot do anything about it since they don’t know who has it and I realize it was stolen after they took it.

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trtsmb t1_j69jeg1 wrote

You can show them the location of the device and they can go investigate.

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itswhatitisbro t1_j6hqedn wrote

I don’t think any police force accepts Find My as substantial cause to enter a private property. Certainly don’t in the UK.

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dskatter t1_j69i4jn wrote

It’s off. It won’t ring.

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rpaulmerrell t1_j69lk2i wrote

Remote erased the device so they can’t use it

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No-Life-480 OP t1_j69loa8 wrote

I set it to lost mode with hopes they turn it on at some point and I have a location

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rpaulmerrell t1_j69lso2 wrote

Let’s hope you get that phone back soon. If you don’t, you’re eventually gonna have to remote wipe it unless you want your information out there but it’s going to be useless to the thief because it’s iCloud locked.

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TurtleOnLog t1_j6cohm1 wrote

More recent iPhone models can report their location even while turned off, as long as there is someone else near it with a turned on iPhone. It sounds a bit like this has happened.

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Constant_Many_7258 t1_j6flweb wrote

Be careful of phishing messages from the thief that they may send you, if they message you "your iphone has been found, see live location" that is a phishing attempt from the thief to take your phone off activation lock.

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No-Life-480 OP t1_j6huypx wrote

Thanks very much. Haven’t received anything and the phone is still dead. I deleted everything and set a message so they can contact me once they realize the phone cannot be used.

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Constant_Many_7258 t1_j6i1v4l wrote

No problem man, I hope you get your phone back, keeps us updated! :)

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No-Life-480 OP t1_j6i24o4 wrote

I mean, it pisses me off that somebody can be that evil and idiot at the same time. They ruined my holiday in order to have a useless 1000$ brick. Like they haven’t even turned it on. I feel so powerless.

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