My I phone was stolen and find my iphone has got removed from my device. I am trying to find the IP address of the last login to my apple ID to be able to track the theft. Is there a way to get an IP log of the login activity? thank you
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iPhone 13 Pro, iOS 15
You cannot track a device by IP address. And to disable find my all anyone has to do is erase the device by restoring it. That breaks Find my.
As long as that device is still listed as a trusted device under your AppleID at https://appleid.apple.com/ then Activation Lock will prevent anyone from activating and using it.
You cannot track a device by IP address. And to disable find my all anyone has to do is erase the device by restoring it. That breaks Find my.
As long as that device is still listed as a trusted device under your AppleID at https://appleid.apple.com/ then Activation Lock will prevent anyone from activating and using it.
Anyone can restore a device with iTunes or finder. When you restore a device, Find My link is broken and the device is untraceable. Find My and Activation lock are separate systems. Erasing a device by restoring it breaks Find My remote tracking, but does not disassociate the device hardware ID from the AppleID so Activation Lock remains in effect.
So whnen someone sees their stolen device drop off of Find My, but it is still listed under their AppleID as a trusted device, then that tells them someone erased their device by restoring it. The owner cannot remote tracking it any longer, but the thief also cannot activate that erased device and use it.
Note that Activation Lock goes into effect the moment an owner signs their device into iCloud, whether or not they enable and use find my.
When I erased my iPhone XS and iPhone 7 to give them away, they disappeared from tracking in Find My. But I still had to remove them from my trusted devices under my AppleID in order to get the activation menu to move past activation lock so my relatives could use them.
In my own experiencing, erasing a device either by restoring it or using erase all in settings always breaks remote tracking with Find My. But it does not remove the device from Activation Lock and the device remains listed as an AppleID trusted device.
I have not had experience doing that since about iOS 15.2 or thereabouts so don’t know if newer iOS versions have changed that relationship.
No. The only way they could have gotten into your Apple ID would be if you had a very weak passcode and password.
To remove Find My requires entering the password for the Apple ID. Otherwise Activation Lock would be useless.
Have you actually tried this? I have. Again, if you could restore the iPhone and turn off or break the Find My then we would not be having posts about how to remove an Activation Lock. They can turn off the iPhone or put it in a Faraday bag but restoring it will not break the Find My link, you have to sign out of it.
How to find my stolen iPhone if it was removed from Find My?
