Stolen iPhone - Blocked IMEI, Find My iPhone - No Location

All a thief has to do is turn your phone off to defeat Find my Phone. If you didn't passcode protect the phone, a thief can go into settings and turn Find my Phone off. Restoring your phone as a new device will also defeat Find my Phone.

If you didn't enable iCloud before it was stolen there is no way to locate the phone. A phone cannot be located by IMEI.

Also note that this is a public forum with several million users that is also indexed by every search engine, so the whole world now knows your IMEI. It's not a good idea to post personal information like that.

Does anyone else know if there's a way to get Apple to blacklist the phone (so when the stolen phone is reset to defaults and needs to be activated via Itunes, it would not be)?

Cheers,

Max

Apple does not blacklist phones.

For the reasons already explained, Find My Phone is useful mainly to find lost, not stolen phones. Unless the thief is an idiot, FMP is easily defeated.

Apple doesn't blacklist or partricipate in recovering stolen iPhones.

I've just gotten off the phone with Telstra (Australian telco my mobile/cell is with) and they confimed with me that reporting the mobile phone as stolen and having the IMEI number blocked, blocks that phone from mobile phone networks world wide (not just in Australia).

Shame that Apple don't offer ability to block the phone from itunes as that would be best way to locate the phone instead of preventing it to be used on 3g/gsm networks.

Cheers,

Max

before stolen my iphone i didnt set icloude passward only i have IMEI ********* number teaf may be change itune account. so i cant locate. how i locate by IMEI ********* number

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i lost my iphone now like track by IMEI *******

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You cannot track a phone by IMEI. And it's a bad idea to post your IMEI in a public forum like this.