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6asap9 Author

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Stolen iPhone

So today my iPhone was stolen and stupidly I had not enabled "Find my iPhone" so there was no way to trace it or remote wipe it. I logged into iCloud through my PC and changed my Apple ID password and removed the iPhone from my Apple ID. I'm not exactly tech-savvy, but my intention was to stop any potential access to my data on my iPhone. However now I feel that I just made life easier for the theives by removing all my data and practically giving them a fresh phone that they can use their own Apple ID on, but I'm not sure and wanted to see if that is the case? I know I cannot do anything about it now so oh well but just curious to know if I did the right thing. Thanks.

Posted on Jun 29, 2022 4:00 PM

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Michael Black

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Posted on Jun 29, 2022 4:36 PM

Did you remove the device from your iCloud account at https://www.iCloud.com/find ? That would disable the use of Find My.

If you also removed the device from your trusted devices under your AppleID at https://appleid.apple.com/ then you also disabled activation lock.

So your device is linked to your AppleID in two places. Your iCloud account for Find My services, but directly to your AppleID as a trusted device for Activation Lock.

If that is the case that you removed it at both, then yes, they can restore it with a computer, which erases it, and then activate it under their AppleID.

If you only removed it in iCloud and it is still a trusted device under your AppleID then activation lock will prevent them from using it after they restore it.

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