What to Do When Your iPhone Is Stolen

A few common-sense precautions will protect your data and may even help you recover your phone if your device is lost or stolen.

There is no guarantee that these tips will protect you or get your iPhone back in all cases, but following them will reduce your overall risk.

 1- Lock your iPhone and delete its data

The first thing you need to do is to protect your personal information. If you’ve set a password on your iPhone, you’re pretty safe. But if you don’t want to or you want extra security, use Find My iPhone to lock your phone and add a passcode. This step will at least prevent the thief from using your phone.

If you are unable to recover the iPhone or if it contains sensitive information, delete the phone data remotely. Deleting the data won’t stop the thief from using your iPhone, but at least they won’t have access to your data after that.

If your iPhone was provided to you by your employer, your IT department can also remotely delete the data. Contact your company’s help desk for your options.

2- Remove debit and credit cards from Apple Pay

If you’re using Apple’s wireless payment service, you’ll need to remove any credit or debit cards you’ve added to the phone for use with Apple Pay (it’s easy to add them back in later). Apple Pay is pretty secure – thieves shouldn’t be able to access your Apple Pay without your fingerprint or face scan, which they probably won’t have, but it’s good to keep your mind at peace because your credit card isn’t sitting around virtually. In the thief’s pocket. Use iCloud to remove the card.

3- Track Your Phone With Find My iPhone

Apple’s free Find My iPhone service can track your phone using the device’s built-in GPS and show you on a map where the phone is located. The only catch? You must have set up Find My iPhone before your phone was stolen.

If you don’t like to Find My iPhone, there are many other apps in the App Store that will help you locate the phone. Some of these apps even allow you to change security settings remotely.

4- Don’t try to get it yourself; get help from the police

 If you were able to locate your iPhone using a GPS tracking app like Find My iPhone, don’t try to get it yourself. Going to the home of the person who stole your phone can put you at risk.

Instead, contact the local police department (or, if you have already filed a report, which you reported theft) and tell law enforcement that you have information about the location of the stolen phone. While the police may not always be able to help you, the more information you have, the more likely the police will obtain the phone for you.

5- File a Police Report

If you are unable to recover the phone immediately, file a police report at the location where the phone was stolen. This step may or may not recover your iPhone (in fact, the police may tell you there is little they can do due to the value of the phone or the number of thefts), but there is some documentation. Should help with phone handling and insurance companies.

Even if the police tell you they can’t help you at first, if you can get data about your phone’s location, the police may need a report to help you recover it.

Additionally, a stolen phone report will allow the device’s IMEI to be saved in a database so that the phone cannot be erased and used elsewhere, making it useless to those who stole it.

6- Change Your Password

If you don’t have a password and are unable to set a password using Find My iPhone (the thief could have prevented the phone from connecting to the network), all your data is exposed. Don’t let thieves access accounts whose passwords are saved on your iPhone. Changing your email account password will prevent thieves from reading or sending mail from your phone. In addition, online banking, changing Apple ID, and other important account passwords will help prevent identity theft or financial theft.

7- Call your Telephone Insurance Company, if you have one.

 If you purchased phone insurance from your phone company or insurance company to protect your iPhone and your policy covers theft, contact the insurer. Having a police report is a big help here. Reporting the situation to the insurance company would be the step to replace your phone if you are unable to recover it.

8- Inform People

 If your phone is lost and you can’t track or lock it using GPS, you probably won’t be able to get it back. In this case, you’ll need to notify the people in your address book and email accounts of the theft. They probably won’t get a call or email from the thief, but if the thief has a sense of humor or bad intentions, you want people to know that you don’t send the harassing emails.

Conclusion

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