How can it disappear from their device list? How can they get an email that find iPhone has been turned off? Apple Genius Bar was helping her track it and watched it disappear. It that different that removing it from iCloud/removing the iCloud lock?

Yes, but I haven’t heard of the iCloud lock being removed like that.

So they call in pretending to be her, get the phone unlocked? That makes sense. They did it in just under thirty minutes. Not their first rodeo.

They removed the phone from iCloud. That’s that part that I thought was impossible except for by Apple.

A friend just had her iPhone stolen before Christmas. Within 30 minutes it was wiped from her Apple ID, not by her. Password was not reset. She had a weak passcode. Apple told her there are people who have the ability to wipe the phone and they’ve seen it before. I keep hearing it’s impossible, yet it happened to my friend. Even with the passcode, there would be emails about resetting the Apple ID password, and there wasn’t. She at least has a more secure passcode now.

What’s Holden’s middle name?

The older I get, the more annoyed at birthdays I am. Sure, throw a party, that’s great. But don’t expect a day off, or to get out of a major commitment just because it’s your significant other’s birthday, or any other perks. Birthdays are for kids. I’d like to slide through mine unnoticed.