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My lost mode was turned 2 days ago as it was stolen. Now, i received email notification that Find my iPhone mode is disabled! How is that possible?
iPhone 6 Plus, Lost Mode
You did not enable it before your phone was stolen.
The battery is now dead.
The phone is no longer connected to the Internet.
Lost Mode was enabled that is for certain. Last location was found.
Are you saying Find My iphone is automatically disabled when the battery is dead or not connected to internet?
If the battery is dead then nothing on the device is running. Find My Phone is only usable when connected to the Internet.
i don't think that is the cause of the email notification for find my iphone was disabled. Plus, my own device is removed from my account today. My account is breached........ how this is possible?
I still have my iphone5 which i have not turned on for along time but still remains in my icloud account.
If you are saying that it is removed from your account (no longer registered with your apple ID), I would assume that someone has found your iPhone and has completed a factory reset. In this case, I find it unlikely that you will ever locate it since it has no relation to you software wise. If you have your receipt or some form of proof that the iPhone is yours (ie. Serial Number, IMEI) and you locate the device, you will be able to reclaim it.
Sincerely sorry for your loss,
Zackary
Igonore Zackary, he doesn't know what he is talking about. If the phone was restored as new (erased), the thieves would have needed your Apple ID password to do this, and the phone would still be showing up on Find my iPhone device list and would not have been able to be activated.
The only conclusion is that the thieves somehow breached your Apple ID account. Did you change all of your passwords when the phone was stolen?
honestly, i changed it after i received this email notification that find my iphone was disabled. I don't understand how they can know my apple ID or my original password in the first place ?
Are you sure that the notification you got was from Apple? It could have been a phishing attempt by the thieves to get your password. It has happened before.
This is how the message looks like. Then, my device is no longer in my account when i want to locate latest location of myphone.
It is a legitimate email. I really have no idea how they got your password. Contact Apple Account security, if you have not done so already.:
Contact Apple for help with Apple ID account security - Apple Support
Thanks Felipe. I think i have emailed everyone that i can think off and now waiting for respond. I will call the support number for the security appleiD as soon as i get a new phone with line. I was so certain that no one can use my phone and just sell it as spare parts.. but now my mind changed.....
There is a very real possibility that whoever has your phone knows you.
Actually, you don't know for sure that is a valid email without seeing the actual headers. And if the OP clicked the link in that email to change the password that is how the Apple ID was compromised.
Lawrence:
FWIW, I was suspicious of that email as I had never seen the @insideicloud.icloud.com domain before. I went ahead and turned off FmP on my iPhone and got an email similar to the OP's with the same address. In any case, you are right: the only way to see if the email is legit is to analyze the full header. I think the OPs email is legit. But all of this is already moot in any case.
There are ways to get around activation lock. It is possible that restoring using DFU mode in iTunes would allow the person to bypass Find My iPhone. I do not know if this would let you in to the phone after restoring it, but it would let you erase it.
My lost mode was turned 2 days ago. Now, i received email notification that Find my iPhone mode is disabled! How is that possible?
