Lost my iphone. Will the thief be able to access to my data?

First of all, the SIM card has nothing to do with Find My iPhone. Find My iPhone will activate once the iPhone uses WiFi.

Secondly, since you have iOS 7, Activation Lock is also in effect. It is described here:

http://support.apple.com/kb/PH13695

So if a thief tries to sell your iPhone, the new buyer could not use it.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5818

with the new activation lock securtiy feature on IOS 7. That phone is completely useless to the thiefs or whomever they sell it to.

If they restore yoru phone, they would need to know your apple id and password and need to disable find my phone, which they can't because they don't know your password.

As a precautions change all your password.

Report the thief to your local authority and phone carrier.

Did the iPhone have a passcode on it? From your description it appears that it did. Did you have iOS7 on it along with having Find My iPhone activated? It appears from your profile you had iOS 7 and you talk about using Find My iPhone.

Removal of the SIM card does not unlock the device, it just makes it where it can no longer connect to the cellular network. With iOS 7 and Activation Lock, and with your passcode lock, the thief will not even be able to successfully restore the device, let alone activate it. Even if he was to restore it, it still will not activate without your Apple ID and password. Attempts to activate will require connection to the Internet which will connect it to Find My iPhone which will institute your Lost command and show it on the map. The device is useless to the thief, but they still may try to sell it. They do that and the Activation lock will do the same thing for the unsuspecting buyer.

No. As indicated by all of the responses you received, Activation Lock is part of iOS 7 and Find My iPhone. It does not require any further input from you. All you had to do was download and install iOS 7 and activate Find My iPhone. You did all of that. You did not have to "get and activation lock" or anything else. As described earlier, the device is useless to the thief and anyone else he tries to sell it to.

Offline means the phone is powered off. Nothing you can do to track it.

Correct

Can they in anyway activate phone. Mine stolen last Friday and I use find my iphone. Have not seen phone on line. Do have fingerprint and password. Did not erase iphone as apparently this turs off find my iphone app. The phone is listed as actions pending with sounds and lost mode to be shown when phone goes on line. So if they did not go online could they have somehow reset or wiped phone.

To make things moe confusing, the tabs open on iphone were shown in icloud thus week on my iPad, but not today

My meid # is listed in national data base in canada as representing stolen phone

Any help appreciated

Thanks

They can try to wipe the phone, however with Activation Lock with iOS 7, then they would not be able to activate the device without your Apple ID and password.

Hey Chris

Thanks for the reply

A couple of questions

- see what I said re internet tabs not showing as of yesterday, though they had for 5 days after theft. Does this mean device was wiped ?

- not sure I understand activation lock......would I have needed to set this up

- is find my iphone not working anymore for that phone if device wiped. I see the device as offline when I chech with iPad

Kimlegault wrote:

Hey Chris

Thanks for the reply

A couple of questions

- see what I said re internet tabs not showing as of yesterday, though they had for 5 days after theft. Does this mean device was wiped ?

- not sure I understand activation lock......would I have needed to set this up

- is find my iphone not working anymore for that phone if device wiped. I see the device as offline when I chech with iPad

If it is still displaying pending, then the device has not been connected to the Internet. Activation lock is part of iOS 7, so if you had the on the phone and Find My iPhone activated, which you report that you did, then Activation Lock is active. You can check out this support document for more information about Activation Lock if you like. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5818

If the device is showing off line, then it is very possible it is still powered off. It needs to connect to the Internet for Find My iPhone to work.

I Bought a phone with cloud locked will I ever be able to use

Maryformal wrote:

I Bought a phone with cloud locked will I ever be able to use

No. return it for a refund if you can. Only the person who setup find my iphone and activation lock can remove it.