iCloud "Pending: Erase iPhone"

Probably you will have the same message on iCloud until you delete the iPhone as a registrated device for iCloud. If you lock the iPhone, it will be completely unusable for thieves until they insert the correct passcode, so it's a better process than erasing the iPhone, because at least you know that they won't be able to use it

The other issue is that you have to keep your iphone cell service connected until the theif turns on your phone. If you send the erase command and then disconnect service from the phone before the phone has been turned on, the erase command will be canceled and lost. That really is a ******** thing because I don't know anyone who is going to hold off on getting a phone until their stolen one is turned on. What if it takes a week or two?

My service provider and the apple tech support agree that it's a terrible flaw.

The other way to tell if the erase was completed is to check your phone records and see if there has been any data usage after you have sent the erase command.

That means that the iPhone hasn't been erased yet. It will be erased the next time it gets connected to the Internet, always that your Apple ID is being used on the phone.

If thieves changed the Apple ID of the iPhone, I'm sorry, but the only thing you can do is to report it to the police, because your device won't be erased

Without any problem. Just go to Settings > iCloud > Delete account, so your Apple ID will be removed from iCloud, and they can do whatever they want with the iPhone. Another possibility is to restore your iPhone to factory settings, so your data is erased

You are welcome

That is not true in my case It keeps asking me for my old apple id password............ it *****!

i just can erase the old apple id from my 4s iphone

I cannot even erase all data or nothing