If someone steals your phone all they have to do so you won't find it is to wrap it in aluminium foil.
iPhone remains findable after power off
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#92So does my car. And?
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I turn off my phone but never that way. It either runs out of power or I hard reset it. Either way I don't want it spying on me.
Either way I don't want it spying on me. Unfortunately iOS is filled with call-homes to apple servers with all sorts of telemetry data. You can "turn off" exact lat/long coordinates (location data), however your cell provider can triangulate your position and apple can triangulate via wifi/other Apple products. Read about how Airtags work.
This is nothing to do with iOS.
A cell provider can triangulate any phone connected to its network.
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe you don't want to be tracked sometimes, and you expect turning off your device to turn it off.
> you expect turning off your device to turn it off. When you turn your phone off there is a message that states: iPhone Findable After Power Off > Tapping that shows an alert with a description: iPhone Remains Findable After Power Off Find my helps you locate this iPhone when it is lost or stolen, even after power off The location is visible in Find My on your other devices and to people in Family Sharing you share…
Mine has no such message, and I'm on iOS 15. I just tested it. Any idea why?
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#95Umm, isn’t this, like maybe, a good thing? If I want my very expensive iPhone found, I want it found whether it is on or off. If people are worried about being tracked maybe they should carry around a device that is always broadcasting radio signals to third party towers.
If YOU want that option, that's fine. However, why force everyone to use this? From the comments is seems Apple is pretty aggressive with it and you can only turn it off temporarily.
Since when did something being a default setting become something being 'forced' upon users?
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
> you expect turning off your device to turn it off. When you turn your phone off there is a message that states: iPhone Findable After Power Off > Tapping that shows an alert with a description: iPhone Remains Findable After Power Off Find my helps you locate this iPhone when it is lost or stolen, even after power off The location is visible in Find My on your other devices and to people in Family Sharing you share…
Mine has no such message, and I'm on iOS 15. I just tested it. Any idea why?
Head to the "Find My" section in the settings, click into "Find My iPhone", and see if "Find My network" is on or off.
If it's off, you won't get the disclaimer, because it's not active.
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#97Apple is very clear that this is how things work now. They even give you a dialog prompt now to inform you of this change the first time you try to shut your device off - https://9to5mac.com/2021/06/07/ios-15-find-my-network-can-fi... I'm not sure why this is presented as some new thing, or a gotcha or whatever this is. We've known about it for months... And IMO, it's a positive change although it does sound a little…
Yeah, there's a reasonably visible message "warning" you of this, which has a prompt to turn it off. I actually thought this was very old, added a year or so ago. I guess it got delayed? I've had two phones stolen (right out of my hands) that were immediately shut down and sim cards ejected to prevent them from being tracked. While I'm sure this feature wouldn't help me get back a phone, I hope it does deter this. Ed…
It was just added a few days ago, not a year ago.
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Exactly. For example, when you're a phone thief.
Won't phone thieves just have some faraday bags to pop their winnings into?
Dedicated ones, yes, but their numbers have declined significantly now that the phones can be activation locked.
Opportunistic ones likely won't have such a thing. My wife's phone was once stolen by someone at a hospital lab... after they'd checked in their kid. It was a fairly easy job for the cops to track that down.
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#99“You think you really know what's going on?
They passing laws where they can run up in your own home
Cameras on your laptop, TV and your iPhone
The battery don't come out, that means it's always on”
- B.o.B., “Paper Route”, 2013
One might call him a conspiracy theory rapper. He once got in a Twitter feud with Neil deGrasse Tyson on whether the earth was flat.
Re: iPhone remains findable after power off
#100Apple is very clear that this is how things work now. They even give you a dialog prompt now to inform you of this change the first time you try to shut your device off - https://9to5mac.com/2021/06/07/ios-15-find-my-network-can-fi... I'm not sure why this is presented as some new thing, or a gotcha or whatever this is. We've known about it for months... And IMO, it's a positive change although it does sound a little…
I'm generally of the impression that any phone with an unremovable battery is never truly "off" at any given time, unless the battery is totally damaged.
PS: I like phones whose batteries are removable, currently use a Nokia Android with a removable one. One advantage is that when the phone drops down, it disintegrates, frame from battery, decreasing the overall impact on the phone.