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Find my iPhone question
Lidtop2013
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Just turned this on etc just incase something bad happened.
So my question is what's stopping someone from going into the settings and turning find my iPhone off? I'd have thought you need to enter a password but you don't. Or is it still on secretly?
So my question is what's stopping someone from going into the settings and turning find my iPhone off? I'd have thought you need to enter a password but you don't. Or is it still on secretly?
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There's nothing to stop someone switching it off as you say. Best option is to have a pass code lock on your iPhone too.
As far as I know, if someone switches your iPhone off, Find my iPhone will give you the last known location.
Just pin protect your iPhone.
"find my iphone" isn't an app, it's a service built-in to the icloud settings.
turning off deleting apps would have no affect on find my iphone.
that article seems to be confusing the "find my iphone" service and the "find my iphone" app.
the app is not required to enable the service on your phone. the app is only for finding another phone.
I agree that it calls it an app throughout the article, but the steps listed are the correct ones to take.
it even shows screenshots from the app.
if the thief is sensible then the first thing they do it turn it off.
then take it somewhere with no wifi, remove the sim, turn it back on, connect it to itunes and do a restore to wipe it. (or if no restrictions, do a "erase all contents and settings" via settings).
removing the sim along with no wifi means that no "location" signal can be sent and no remote wipe signal can be received.
Well, there's a limit to what any company can do in these circumstances.
oh i know, i'm not knocking the service.
just saying that it relies on the thief leaving the phone on and connected to be able to trace it.
If there's a pass code and the phone is stolen / lost, then you'd hope the owner could kill the phone's data before anyone else got access, even if it still proved difficult to recover the phone.
having a passcode enabled still doesn't disable the ability to power off the phone though.