Will Apple block IMEI or serial number from accessing Itune stolen Iphone?

roaminggnome wrote:
Sorry about your situation.

"My question is will Apple block stolen phone from accessing Itunes since every account has to be set up with this information?"

No.

"Apple is making enough money already and can get goodwill from protecting its customers, according to my local police, from mounting and sometimes violent crime. Apple could easily make Iphones less attractive to thieves."

Does Motorola or Lg or Samsung do this?

This would likely run afoul of privacy rights as you could sell your iphone, then get vindictive and report it stolen.

"It would be an easy operation. They legitimate owner is known to Apple, all they could require is a police report number."

They do not know if it was stolen, given away, sold,etc. This is a police issue, not an Apple issue. Would you expect this from Motorola or Samsung or LG?

"I hope this will be possible because I am seriously thinking about getting a Nexus or HTC which are starting to compete, this is added to the fact that I paid $700+ for this device and had to wait 3 months to get it."

The manufacturers of these other phones will not do this either.

Sorry. I hope the police find the criminals.

errzenki wrote:
I lost my iphone too. It's frustrating that all the phone carriers can and will do is block that number and Apple is just a bystander. What's the use of an IMEI or serial number for?

It's also a plus for the carriers and Apple too since the avid fan will be forced to buy another one or contract a new plan to subsidize the unit price.

Like anything elese with a serial number, if you sell it, get a reciept. Then, it's a non issue. Or better yet, take it to service provider in person and transfer ownership. It's not rocket science.

If Apple or AT&T/Verizon disabled all reported stolen serial numbers, just think of all the money they would loose out on. THAT is why it "Can't" be done.

It's BS. Itunes know exactly what phone is hooked to what computer, what it's serial number is, and yet that serial cannot be flagged and made un-activatable? BS.

My iphone 4 was stolen, and wiped, and is being enjoyed by the thief, while apple and AT&T are profiting from it. Tomorrow, 5.2.11, I am contacting an Attourney to file a class action, as I KNOW I am not alone. Will keep you posted.

i would join.

It's ridiculous that something so simple could discourage theft and yet they don't do it.

Mine was just lifted but I am sure that others have been physically threatened or assaulted in the process.

If I were an attorney I would subpoena every email to apple and ATT on the subject, gather the incident reports on those, study the increase in thefts, calculate additional revenue to the co's by added purchases etc and compare that to mediacl, counselling, loss of life, expenditure and even lost business, data theft etc from consumers.

Add the cost to restrict access to blocked ID's and it would be a scary defense for Apple and ATT.

Except, Apple makes money on our stolen iPhones, as we are likely to buy them again.

So why would they care?

ncblue wrote:

If I were an attorney I would subpoena every email to apple and ATT on the subject,

err, and what exactly would be the legal basis for the subpoena? You cannot just get a subpeona because you want one, or because you feel put upon. You need a rational legal basis for getting a court to issue one. And even if you feel it is a good reason (and even manage to get one) the recipient has the right to object on the basis there is no legal ground nor justification for such a subpeona, so merely getting a subpeona does not guarantee you will get the information you seek.

Apple is doing nothing illegal by NOT jumping up in the manner you wish them to over a privately owned, stolen or misplaced personal item.

Hey sir

i want to ask you that can i block or lock my ipone 4s with imei number..because any one stole my ipone..so i want to lock my ipone because in my ipone have lot of personal data,,,and i also dont acess any password also..please help me.what can i do in this sistuation...?

Apple does not care about us, mine was stolen last Friday, August 31 and I contact apple and they hang up on me, I have the IMEI number and is nothing I can do to block it, I'm just come to a conclution of never getting anything else from apple, we are buying gadget and making then richer and with all this technology they don't have a way to block the IMEI because if you lose your phone, eventually you come back and buy a new one, I know I'm going to recover my phone but just is case somebody know how to block here is my IMEI 012337005841236, from now on I using any cellphone brand name but apple.

Only the wireless carrier can block a phone by IMEI and that block

will only apply in the country where the phone was registered. The

block will not prevent the phone from being used in another region

of the world.