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What is the “find my phone” app tied to?

So I had my iphone stolen out of my hands a nights ago by a group of 7 guys. Amazingly the next day, after activating the lost mode, one of the thieves called me and offered to give me my phone back for a finders fee. However the Lock Screen code was changed on my phone. I had the erase the phone just to be able to use it again. So I’m trying to figure out if they wiped the phone first and the “find my phone” app still works after the phone has been hard reset OR if they saw me access my phone using my code and changed the code giving them access to all of my data…

iPhone 6s Plus, 14

Posted on Aug 25, 2021 10:17 AM

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FoxFifth

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Posted on Aug 25, 2021 11:49 AM

There is not a way that they could see your code from anything you did and there is no way they could access your data. It is possible to erase the data on an iPhone but that does not remove your Apple ID/Activation Lock and you would still be able to locate it using Find My.

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