iPhone Theft Protection
Discussions center on smartphone theft, especially iPhones, and Apple's Activation Lock feature's role in deterring thieves, including its effectiveness, bypass methods, and personal theft experiences.
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How does it handle phone theft?
Interesting. How do they handle stolen phones?
What if the thieves don't have an iPhone?
It’s not related to personal theft, but to activation lock. Apple can (and will) lock these phones as well.
what do you consider security here? you still lose the phone - the thief isn't going to return it to you, and he will still get some money for it from a fence.
It works too:"Apple’s Activation Lock Leads To Big Drops In Smartphone Theft Worldwide"https://techcrunch.com/2015/02/11/apples-activation-lock-lea...
Sounds like a good way to discover people steal unattended phones.
Apple probably remotely bricked all of the phones, plus get are all tracking. What’s the point of stealing those? They aren’t even putting them in a faraday cage so the tracking is still going. It would be trivial to catch the idiots if the police did their job
Doesn't Apple's stolen device system work pretty well?
These "locks" might reduce theft, but not only they still happen, but you can also make money with a stolen phone. You can sell it for parts. An iPhone will annoy you about the replaced display, but the phone still works. You can transfer the old battery's controller to the new one so the phone doesn't know about the change. You can sell the shell of the phone, speakers, cameras, etc.Maybe now I benefit from these Apple restrictions and annoyances, but I've been using