unlisted account wrote:
I think the average experience would be 1) someone loses a phone or 2) donates it without removing icloud. I guess I don't really need more ways to keep someone from stealing my phone. I need someway to recover my phone when it has been lost, or when I have found one.
The owner of the phone has always had the option to provide any information they want to a person who has found it. They do this when they mark it as lost in Find My. If the owner chooses not to provide any information, that is their preference, and a person who found the phone should not be able to gain any personal information about the owner if they have chosen not to provide any.