Hi again, Giving this more thought you may find that prior configuration was needed on the iPhone before it went missing in order to take advantage of find-my-iPhone and remote wipe. Please let me know if you have any luck.
Cheers, On 2011-02-07, at 21:56, cm wrote: > Hi Callum, > > You should do a remote wipe of the iPhone to wipe all data off the phone. I > believe there are some schemes about to access your data. Usually, however, > the finder of the phone will have 10 incorrect tries of the security code and > this will wipe the phone in any case, but just to be sure a remote wipe is > best. > > Another feature you may be interested it is showing the location of you > iPhone right now. Instruction for the remote wipe and locating your phone > are linked on this web site. > > http://www.apple.com/mobileme/features/find-my-iphone.html > > Cheers, > Carlo > > > > On 2011-02-07, at 21:02, Callum Prior wrote: > >> >> Hi all, >> >> Sadly my partner has had her iPhone stolen in transit to the US. She was in >> Auckland for a couple of hours and had her phone and wallet stolen, and the >> airline lost her baggage(!). >> >> As she was also travelling with a toddler who had just done a Perth - >> Auckland flight and some security guards who didn't seem interested in >> helping her out, she wasn't able to report it to the police while she was >> still in Auckland. >> >> The phone's passcode protection was active at the time and we've already >> blocked the telephone account and removed my credit card data from iTunes. >> Is there anything else I should be doing? >> >> It's not likely we'll see the phone again, but should we be concerned about >> the data on the phone? How hard is it to break through the passcode >> protection? >> >> Cheers! >> >> Callum Prior >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> >> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
