Dylanlappin wrote:
Yeh! What is actively being done, why does it constantly say Erase Pending, or Cancel Erase. Why is there not a way to see full confirmation that this phone is completly disabled and that all my info has been erased. After a month of disabling and erasing it, reporting the IMEI, it still pops up as my phone with my name.
If your iPhone does not have an Internet connection, but it has come close enough to another Apple device that this other device can hear a Bluetooth "Find My network" signal, that could explain what you are seeing.
Your iPhone has to be able to connect to the Internet to learn of an Erase request and to report back that it has acted on it. It probably doesn't know any of the Wi-Fi hotspots in China, and your U.S. carrier's cellular network also might be unavailable. But if Find My Network was turned on, your iPhone would send out Bluetooth signals for as long as it had a charge in the battery – even when turned off. If there were functioning Apple devices that were close enough (even ones belonging to the criminals, personally), they might hear those signals, and relay a location for Find My to show to you.
How do 100's or 1000's of phones end up at the same address or street year after year.
Criminals obviously have learned that this "reprocessing" plant is a place where they can "dispose of" Activation Locked, stolen iPhones. Probably not for anywhere near the same sort of money that a non-Activation-Locked and non-blacklisted iPhone would bring, but clearly someone thinks there is ill-gained loot to be had in the "chop up stolen iPhones for parts" business.
Of note: Apple to expand repair options with support for used genuine parts - Apple
"Apple will also extend its popular Activation Lock feature to iPhone parts in order to deter stolen iPhones from being disassembled for parts."
