Stolen iPhone

More than likely, your phone has already been erased...defeating Find My Phone. Thieves are smart, & know to turn iPhones off, & then erase them. Once done, there is no way to track them.

If the phone was running iOS 7.0, Activation lock would make the phone useless.

If both wifi and cellular are off, you cannot do a thing to it remotely. There has to be a data connection for the servers and it to communicate.

And yes, without a passcode on it, all they had to do was go into your iCloud account settings and turn find my iPhone "OFF" (unless you had a restrictions passcode in effect and had disallowed any changes to accounts?).

Also, if you were not running iOS 7, they can just plug it into iTunes and restore it as new, wiping out all your content and resetting it back to original default settings. After that, they can use it as they wish.

Although, without a passcode lock on it, they can use it as they wish as soon as they had it in their hands.

At this point there is nothing you can do but file a police report and hope for some good luck.

Change the passwords to any accounts you used on the iPhone so they cannot use your email accounts or gain access to any online accounts.

AYoung87 wrote:

Or is it possible that he turned off the app and has the phone on airplane mode? That would mean that he could use it with wifi but not recieve incoming calls. Is that correct?

Correct. But I suspect your sim has been thrown out & the phone restored, & it's either on eBay, Craig's List or sitting in a Pawn shop, or already sold on a street corner.

If you did not have a passcode lock on it, or at least have changes to accounts restricted, then anyone with it can just go into your iCloud account settings and disable find my iPhone.

That would be no different than you doing the same thing if you still had it. And no, you cannot do anything to it to re-enable the setting remotely. Once the setting is disabled, the connection between the iCloud servers and your device is gone, and all remote tracking and commands are useless to you.

They could disable find my iphone, reanable wifi and cellular and use your phone just as if they were you when you had it. They can read your emails, send to your contacts, read your contancts - anything they want.

Without a passcode lock on it, they can do anything you could do when you had it. That is the whole point of a passcode lock - to keep others from gaining unrestricted access to your device.

Sorry, not meaning to sound curt over your loss, but seriously, to my mind walking around with a smart phone without a passcode on it is like leaving your home with all the doors and windows unlocked and flung wide open.

Did you not report it to Verizon and have them shut down the service? You may find yourself in for a rather large bill if you didn't...

😮 Yes, as KiltedTim says, have you not already called the carrier, reported it and cancelled your account?! I just assumed you had already done that first thing.

Call Verizon, and make sure to change all your passwords, now, not later!

You cannot do a remote wipe if you cannot even locate it in your iCloud account tracking tool, so even hoping for that is a moot issue anyway. Offline is offline - you cannot send a remote command to a device that the system has no connection with.

If you had a 4S, you had a sim card in the phone. While not used in the US, it was still there.

If you reported it to Verizon, then you will be unable to call your phone... It's been deactivated by Verizon. Since you had no passcode on it, there is nothing to prevent the person who has it from doing whatever they want, however, they should not be able to activate it on Verizon's network since it's been reported lost/stolen.