Switching OFF a locked lost/stolen phone defeats the purpose of Find my iPhone or any technology that can trace it. As long as the phone's battery is alive and its connected to the Internet, there are changes of tracing it. But if the thief/whoever finds it switches it OFF, then it makes no sense.
iPhone 4S, iOS 8.3
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Find My iPhone is not intended to catch thieves; it's for people who've misplaced their phones. Requiring a password to turn off your phone is a terrible idea. Have you seen the number of posts here from people who've forgotten their passwords?
And I did. Thank you.
Makes just as much sense as believing this in any way will make the phone more useful to a thief. As if it magically restarts without any passwords or security.
Find my iPhone is not meant to retrieve it from thieves, the police are for that, it's so you can trace it when you lost it. The measures against theft are the ones that make the phone useless (and have already proven to work) to a thief like the device being encrypted and secured with TouchID and password.
What's the point of an stolen iPhone you can't turn on to use data.
Hey! The very important fact that removing the SIM will thwart all efforts of finding the phone did not cross my mind. My bad guys, thanks for the answers though.
So will wrapping it in Aluminum foil, or dropping it in a shoplifter's shielded shopping bag.
Wow, why don't you author a book called 'How to be a sarcastic assh*()?"
A locked iPhone should not allow to be switched OFF.
