How to recover a stolen iPhone when 'Find My' is offline?

Offline is displayed when one or more of the following are true on the iPhone:

• The battery has run down
• The phone has been powered off
• The phone does not have an Internet connection where it is currently located

iPhone thieves are also very fond of wrapping a stolen phone in aluminum foil to prevent the phone from either sending or receiving a signal. So, essentially the same as no Internet connection.

Unfortunately, there is nothing that you or we can do to control this. All that you can do is keep checking a few times each day to see if the status of the phone has changed.

I'm sorry, but frankly the chances of ever recovering a stolen phone are at best a tiny fraction above zero.

Chances are, even if you see a location, you will never get your iPhone back.

Pretty much the best that you can do is to mark it as Lost and/or have the carriers blacklist it, and try it make it as worthless to the thieves as possible. The less "easy loot" there is in iPhone theft, the less motivation the thieves have to steal phones in the first place.

A similar approach worked to cut down on car stereo theft, even though it didn't get back the stereos which were stolen.

1. You will never simply recover a stolen device. It's gone.
2. You can only track using FindMy.

Your device must be powered, connected to a network, and have FindMy enabled for the device to broadcast its location. Thieves have means to protect any such signal from sending.

If you have followed, Find your lost iPhone or iPad - Apple Support, there is nothing else to do.