One of the great advantages in iOS 7, which did not take its right from adequate coverage from the sites, is the new phone protection feature, by which Apple aims to make the theft of Apple devices useless for the thief, thus reducing the theft of iPhones and iPads. So how did Apple plan Apple to stop the theft? Is stealing the iPhone really will become useless?

The service to find the phone as we know it is a service that enables you to know the location of your devices with the ability to close them remotely and wipe them at a distance, and Apple added in iOS 6 a feature that you can send a number to your device so that he can find it by calling you, but all this was not enough where it was Thieves, once you steal devices, disconnect the internet from them, so you cannot know their location or delete them. Even if the thief went ahead and turned off the phone, he would simply insert it into the DFU and download a new system. But all of this has become a thing of the past, as Apple decided to link your device to your account. If the thief tries to close the phone, a message will appear to him that he must close the Find the Phone service first, and if he goes to the settings and wants to stop it, the system will ask him to enter the password for his Apple account as follows:

Thus, the thief will not be able to close the service to stop you, the solution if in front of him is to stop the location service and thus you will not know where your device is ... well Apple has not forgotten this as well. The location service, if stopped, will automatically activate if you enter the Apple website and activate the "loss mode".

So, the solution is to reset the device, but that will not work either, and the password must be entered

The thief now has another solution in front of him, which is to connect it to iTunes and download a new, completely clean system. This also will not work as a message will appear to him that he must close the service first, as follows:

The traditional thief will feel despondent and will go to the professional thief who thinks he is smarter and will tell him that the solution is to enter the phone into DFU mode and then download a completely new system, and they do this and a clean new system is loaded, and the steps to operate the phone start to be surprised by this message in front of them whether they download iOS 7 or Consider going back to iOS 6:

What is that ! The system tells him this phone is missing and that it was connected to an Apple account and that he must enter the account and password in order to work, so how did this happen ?!

Simply because Apple linked your device to your account and when it did the loss from the Apple website, it automatically marked the number of your device that it was missing, and when the thief called the Apple servers to activate the device, the phone sent its distinctive number to the Apple servers to get the activation, so what was from the servers only If I sent him that this phone is lost and that he must enter the password to remove this loss.

If the thief tries to activate it using iTunes, the same message will also appear:

There is no point if in front of you, thief, you will never use this device, no matter what you do. We hope that Apple will develop the system and put a feature that when the device connects to the Internet to be activated after downloading a new system, it must send us Apple's servers where this activation request was sent to know the location of the store where my stolen phone is now sold.

What do you think about this feature? Do you see it as a critical remedy for theft and should all other systems pass the advantage over to them?

Source | ilonge

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