Lost phone, offline on Find My Phone

If the iPhone is unable to connect to the internet, either via a Cellular or a WiFi network, then you are not going to be able to locate it on the Find My app. The thing is that if your iPhone is in a hard to find area then by now it has lost its charge and will not be online and if it was stolen then the thief has already reset the passcode and in the process all the data is erase.

What you can do is leave the iPhone listed as an item under your Apple ID so that the iPhone cannot be activated. Call your carrier and report the iPhone lost and have them blacklist it. Report it lost / stolen at your local police department.

Axel F.

Alex, if the phone was passcode protected and Find My enabled, I don't see how a thief could reset the passcode without the Apple ID and Password. That's the beauty of Passcode and Find My being enabled on a phone. It would be useless to a thief. Unless I'm misunderstanding what you wrote?

Sadly no. If it's not powered and connected to a network, it can't be tracked.

LobsterGhost-

Good catch. You did not misunderstand me. I wrote that with "Find My NOT enabled" in my mind, for some reason, that I now cannot replicate. Thanks for the correction.

Axel F.

NP Alex. There are more times than I can count when I imagine a word in my mind, that my fingers don't type!!