These times of festivities are conducive for thieves and clueless to be a bad combination. The chances of "losing" or having our precious mobile device stolen from us increase exponentially, both due to low guard due to the festive atmosphere, and due to situations conducive to the theft of our belongings. Therefore, with this guide to lock or find your lost iPhone, we are going to try that users who have been detached from their iPhone find a small ray of light in so much darkness. We go there with these basic tips and tricks to recover our Apple iPhone devices.
And it is that often they are mobile devices that cost a lot, which in current Spanish legislation can be a significant crime. We want to remember that this guide is used for those cases in which the device has been lost due to confusion, or has been stolen without any type of theft, threat or violent situation.
- Keep calm, find a device that can access iCloud: If we are lucky, and relatively recently we have lost sight of our mobile device, we can go to www.icloud.com and enter the "Search" application. There, we will find numerous possibilities. If our device still has your SIM card, or is connected via WiFI, it will locate it immediately. In addition, it will show us how much battery our mobile device has left, so that we get a slight idea of how long it will last on. Once we have it located, we have three alternatives.
- Emit sound: Which will allow us, thanks to an acoustic signal, to quickly retrieve our mobile device, since we can easily locate it.
- Lost Mode: The lost mode will be activated on the mobile device, which will keep it locked, showing the contact information of the user who lost it, and thus make it easier for whoever finds it to return it to us as soon as possible.
- Erase iPhone: This is our last alternative, if we have no hope of recovering it, we can delete it to make our information inaccessible. However, if we have an unlock code, they will hardly be able to steal any information from our iPhone.
- Alert your company that you don't have the device: In this way, the telephone company will be able to suspend the mobile call service or internet traffic, ensuring that whoever takes it away from us will not incur any type of billing expense. This measure is not recommended while we have the device located, since thanks to the 3G connection we will be able to keep informed of its situation and get the most out of the possibilities of «Find my iPhone»
- Lock your device by IMEI: This is the last option, when we have not been able to locate our device through any method, we have to block it by IMEI. It really is not entirely necessary, since iOS security assures us that our device cannot be restored and reused without our Apple ID, but prevention is better than cure, for this we will contact our telephone companies at the following numbers contact:
- Movistar: 1004
- Vodafone: 123
- orange: 1470
- Yogo: 622
We take this opportunity to remind you that we should not get emboldened by the possibility of locating our iPhone, coming into conflict with a person who has stolen the device from us can have fatal consequences, therefore, we recommend that you always go to the private security officers of the place where you meet, as well as the closest citizen protection servicesWhether it is Local Police, National Police or Civil Guard, they will know how to recover your device while maintaining the relevant security measures.
On the other hand, it should be remembered that in the event of thefts of such magnitude, we can go to home insurance that most families have contracted. This type of insurance usually includes clauses that protect these situations, so, with a bit of luck and if you have suffered a theft, you can go to the policy and minimize damage, as long as you do not have specific insurance for your mobile device.
