How can I turn off Stolen Device Protection?

I’m sorry but this DOES NOT WORK! I want both stolen protection off and delay removed but when I attempt to disable it has the delay…fine. Waited then tried to disable stolen protect and it prompted that I needed to have delay activated to turn off stolen protection!!! WHAT!? Please someone make this make sense.

I'm at 38:45 to go.... I'm literally at home (familiar location), and I work from home. The last IOS update made my phone buggy. I can't ask Siri to play a playist, music sync between my iphone and computer keeps dropping songs frommy playlists, no amount of troubleshooting is helping, and now this? Apple... ya'll are killing me here.

Omg! I can’t download an app at all and it won’t let me change my password and it won’t accept my Face ID as an option to get a thing loaded! I need an app for my new storage unit and I can’t even download it even after the delay! It keeps spinning! Who can wait that hour either? just expires and then start over mode! I never turned this thing on in my settings! It just appeared last week! hate my phone now!!! I am so frustrated! Apple Fix this asap! And it keeps saying it doesn’t know my location! WTH? I am always in the same place!

Ian Law1 wrote:

Would have been nice if Apple had publicised that this service required more than just turning on for it to work "properly" and not think that you've stolen your own device.

You can't turn on SDP unless you have already enabled Significant locations.

How to turn Stolen Device Protection on or off

To turn on Stolen Device Protection, you must use two-factor authentication for your Apple ID and set up or enable the following on your iPhone: a device passcode; Face ID or Touch ID; and Significant Locations* (Location Services).

About Stolen Device Protection for iPhone - Apple Support

Same issue everyone seems to be having with this absolutely devilish ridiculous unforgiving feature! It tells me I’m at unfamiliar location when I’m at my home! Impossible to shut off cuz it wants your face to shut it off! Please make this feature go bye bye all the way across cuz it is obviously NOT a good thing!

iPhone security Delay: How do I remove this ridiculous feature. In an effort to make an iPhone more secure you make our brains less secure. You people need to explain properly how to switch off these stupid protocols.

Thank you Apple for the good intent to include features like these. This is just not an easy-to-use implementation of a security feature. For most people, it creates more issues than not.

Please dig deeper and find solutions without bugging customers. 🙏

r4lf wrote:

Thank you Apple for the good intent to include features like these. This is just not an easy-to-use implementation of a security feature. For most people, it creates more issues than not.

Please dig deeper and find solutions without bugging customers. 🙏

You aren't writing Apple here. This is a user to user only forum, which Apple doesn't read for user feedback.

If you want to share your thoughts with Apple, use this link --> Feedback - iPhone - Apple

yeah classic Apple... creates an issue with no way to solve it really. I miss the days when Apple was simple. Hoping an alternative maker will come along soon that isn't apple or android.

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JesseGodoy34 wrote:

I already tried that it said I have to wait an hour

What happened after you waited an hour? Were you able to do it then?

Then you'll just have to wait the 35 minutes out.

i am facing similar problem . It says it will notify me in 59 mints but i can not see any notification post there and every time this countdown starts again.

This will only work if security delay is not currently in progress.