TechPhonesiPhonesApple just made your iPhone a whole lot harder to stealGood news for iPhone users and bad news for burglars as Apple gets tough on light-fingered iPhone thievesWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
TechPhonesiPhonesApple just made your iPhone a whole lot harder to stealGood news for iPhone users and bad news for burglars as Apple gets tough on light-fingered iPhone thievesWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Good news for iPhone users and bad news for burglars as Apple gets tough on light-fingered iPhone thieves
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
(Image credit: Karolina Grabowska)
(Image credit: Karolina Grabowska)
Because I’m very old, I remember when you couldn’t park your car for more than five minutes without somebody stealing the stereo. But after a few years of pretty much constant car stereo theft, the manufacturers got smart. If they couldn’t make car stereos unstealable, they decided, they’d make them unsellable. So they did. They started coding them, and making them in odd shapes that were hard to get out and impossible to install in other manufacturers' cars. It was still technically possible, albeit a lot more difficult, to steal a stereo. But who’d buy it?
Appleappears to be thinking along similar lines foriPhones. According to an internal memo leaked toMacRumors, anyone who brings a stolen iPhone in for repair will be refused service. It’s a good idea and makes the iPhone that little bit harder to sell on if you aren’t its rightful owner – but there are a few caveats.
iPhone anti-theft protection
This new initiative has similar caveats. The thief-warning will be tied to entries in the GSMA Device Registry, a global database that you can use to report a missing phone. If someone brings an iPhone into an Apple Store or authorised service centre for repair, their systems will check with that database and flag it up if it’s listed as stolen. But for that to happen, you’ve guessed it: you need to have your phone in that database.
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