The following text can then be read on the display of the stolen iPhone: “Please return the device to the store. This device has been issued and its location is being monitored. The police are alerted.“It even shows exactly from which Apple Store the iPhone was stolen. The iPhone remains in this lock screen and cannot be activated any further. How the Twitter users came into possession of the device is not clear.
So far, only users themselves had that Possibility to track the iPhoneif it gets into someone else’s hands. Either to To complicate thiefto continue using the device or to provide an honest finder with the necessary information about the actual owner. But Apple also has a way to track and block the iPhones from the Apple stores.-
This secret software to protect the devices may have been activated as soon as the looting became known. This makes the iPhone virtually useless for criminals. You cannot use it yourself or resell it at a high price. Other Apple stores that had just returned from the Corona mandatory hiatus were closed again and the iPhones and other Apple products were removed from the shelves.
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