Tracking stolen iPhone 11 with IMEI and serial number

My iPhone 11 has been snatched last Thursday 31st July night around 12am

I have the imei and the serial number

please how can I track my phone it has been turned off



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Original Title: hi my iphone 11 has been snatched and i cant find it because its turned off what can i do to track it

Posted on Aug 3, 2025 8:35 AM

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Aug 3, 2025 10:29 AM in response to jah217

If you had Find My enabled on the iPhone, the phone will still send out a very brief intermittent Bluetooth signal even if the phone has been turned off.


Another Apple device in very close proximity can pick up the Bluetooth signal and forward it to the Internet, so that Find My on another device will display the current location of your iPhone.


This of course assumes that the battery has not run down on the iPhone.


Unfortunately, iPhone thieves know all about this capability on the iPhone, so they often wrap the phone in aluminum foil or place it in a small Faraday bag that will not allow the iPhone to either send or receive a signal.


Stolen phones are almost never recovered, so if your phone has not appeared in Find My after a few days, it probably never will.



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