How can I turn off Stolen Device Protection?

I made the horrible mistake of enabling this feature. I had to change things three times that required this in the last two weeks. I start the task, I literally work from home, registered the phones at my home and it says it does not recognize the location every time. Which means an hour which really means much more since you do other things while waiting. It doesn’t work and is insane to disable. Great concept, horrible execution. I still don’t know how to disable it. I just bought another timer that goes off to let me know this timers done so I can do what I need to do.

Same except I didn’t turn it on, it turned itself on and now won’t stay off. I can’t log into the library if I’m in bed because this thing can’t recognize my face unless I go stand in the light - so now it has woken me all the way up to stand in the light for it. Doesn’t warn you there will be a ‘security hold’ for a hour - which will now be waking me up again in an hour. I can’t trust this iPhone to do its job when it’s dark. Wretched.

Ridiculous to opt you into something like this without a warning. Wouldn't be so bad if it had accurate information about the location. I have tried this over and over and it is still enabled. Are we saying that I need to be on my phone exactly when the delay finishes to make this work?

To this member’s knowledge, if the phone is requiring your FaceID, and the FaceID is inoperative …

… your ONLY option is to completely reset the phone and restore from a backup.

If you forgot your iPhone passcode, use your Mac or PC to reset it - Apple Support

Same thing happened to me I received no notification after two hours so I call Apple. I’ve been on the phone with Apple for three hours and they said I’m all good so I go to freaking follow the directions to disable other devices from getting access to my phone and I can’t get there because AT&T change the password for me. I go to use the password. It says it’s not

correct and I’m a computer idiot to begin with. I am having the worst time and it’s also telling me I’m not in a right place. I’m at home. I am at home doing this.

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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