HT201472: If your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch is lost or stolen
Learn about If your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch is lost or stolen
Q: Why can't Apple turn on the Find My iPhone feature if it's been stolen?
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Aug 22, 2013 12:53 PMby randers4,HelpfulYou can give Apple your suggestion here: http://www.apple.com/feedback/icloud.html.
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Aug 22, 2013 1:43 PMby pvonk,HelpfulYou say that they didn't have the Find My iPhone **app** on the stolen device. Unfortunately, having the app doesn't make Find My iPhone work, you'd have to turn on the Find My iPhone **service** (in Settings>icloud) in order to be able to track the stolen device. If they didn't have that turned on, then there's no way the device could talk to Apple's icloud to say where it is.
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Aug 22, 2013 2:17 PMby juandesant,The suggestions has, more or less, been implemented in iOS 7: with iOS 7, you can make stolen devices unusable, and still display a text that might allow them to be recovered. See, for instance, http://www.imore.com/ios-7-preview-activation-lock-aims-keep-out-crooks
