Stolen iPhone location says 'No Location Found" in Find My

iDluis wrote:

‏Someone stole my phone and then turned it off. I kept receiving some updates about its several location althougt its turned off but after a few days it became "no location found"! What does this mean ?

If n iPhone is turned off, has drained its battery, or doesn’t have an internet connection it will display “no location found”. However, there is an additional feature: Find My Network. When off the iPhone Bluetooth will stay on for about a day. If there are any other iPhones nearby they will detect that Bluetooth signal and silently report the location of the detected Bluetooth signal to Apple’s Find My network server. This is how you can detect the location even if in the situation I described.

Finally, if you actually could locate it how could that help? Confront the thief? People have been murdered doing that. Ask the police? Unless you live in a very small town police don’t want to get involved with low value thefts that have very little chance of recovery. Your phone is probably already on its way to a repurposing factory in Shenzhen, China.

Beware of a common phishing scam: You may get a text or email from “Apple” or “Apple Security” (or sometimes “Police”) saying your phone has been found and to click on a link to see its location. This is NEVER from Apple or from law enforcement; it is from the thief or fence to steal your Apple ID and identity. Delete any such message without responding to it. Apple never gets involved in lost or stolen devices→Recognize and avoid social engineering schemes including phishing messages, phony support calls, and other scams

Here’s Apple’s advice→Find your lost iPhone or iPad - Apple Support. You will notice it doesn't address stolen device recovery, just how to protect your contents; your chances of getting it back are nil.

iDluis wrote:

‏Someone stole my phone and then turned it off. I kept receiving some updates about its several location althougt its turned off but after a few days it became "no location found"! What does this mean ?

It means that the device can no longer connect to a network. There is more than one reason why that might be the case: it's somewhere there is no network, the phone has been turned off, the battery is dead, it's being kept in something like a Faraday bag, which prevents it from connecting to any networks, or it has been disassembled or destroyed.

"Find My" is useful for finding lost devices. However, it's much less useful for stolen devices as it's very easy for thieves to prevent the phone from connecting to a network.