After an iPhone theft, there are a few actions you can take to make life hard for the thief and prevent him from disabling the Find My iPhone feature
The Find My iPhone app is a great tool for locating a lost or stolen iPhone. However, a thief, as we have already seen, can bypass this security system. So what should we do to prevent the thief who stole our smartphone from deactivating the Find My iPhone function?
First of all, after a theft we should not try to do everything by ourselves trying to locate the last position saved by the iPhone GPS on the PC. The advice is to contact the police immediately. And then get help in searching the device. Secondly, we should try to make it as difficult as possible, even for an experienced thief, to access the Find My iPhone feature from the device and disable it. Fortunately, succeeding and increasing the security of our iPhone is not difficult and all we need to do is a few simple steps on our Apple account.
Restrictions and Location Settings
The first thing we need to do to prevent the thief from blocking the Find My iPhone feature is to enable the Restrictions (or parental control) feature. And from there disable the possibilities of changes to the Find My iPhone service. First, let’s go to the Settings of the device and from there click on General and then Restrictions. At this point we enable the function (we will have to generate a 4-digit code and confirm it). In the page dedicated to parental control scroll through the list of services until you find the item Privacy, and click on it. At this point we select the heading Localization services and in the new page that opens and put the tick on OFF. In this way no one will be able to change the GPS location shown by Find My iPhone or disable it. Having done all this, we just have to go back and access the section dedicated to the Find My iPhone function. Here we select the item Do not allow changes and move the checkmark to ON. In this way, the service can no longer be disabled. To further protect the iPhone we can think of changing the lock screen password using a passphrase instead of the 4-digit PIN set by default.
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