How to recover my stolen phone

Please I lost my iPhone 12 pro and the person turn off my find app

Please how can I locate the iPhone

Please apple help me

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Okeke blessing



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Posted on Dec 8, 2025 1:22 PM

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Posted on Dec 8, 2025 2:10 PM

This is a user-to-user forum. Apple largely is not here, except to moderate it. Apple also does not get involved with lost or stolen phones, except to provide the Find My / Activation Lock feature.


Most stolen phones are never recovered.


If the thief had the information needed to turn off Find My, and remove the phone from your Apple Account, that means that they will be able to reset your phone and "make your phone their own" to have a perfectly usable phone to use for themselves, or resell for ill-gotten gain.


Even if you could see a location for the phone, it would be very unwise to go there and confront criminals in person. You might lose a lot more than just a phone.


You should secure your Apple Account immediately, if you have not done so already.

If you think your Apple Account has been compromised - Apple Support


You can also report the theft to the police and to your carrier (phone company). There's not much chance that you will get your phone back, but you could ask the carrier to blacklist the phone so that it will never receive cellular service again from any carrier that honors the blacklist. Because Find My was disabled, the thief will still be able to use the phone as a sort of iPod touch, but blacklisting will make it useless as a phone.

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Dec 8, 2025 2:10 PM in response to okeke178h

This is a user-to-user forum. Apple largely is not here, except to moderate it. Apple also does not get involved with lost or stolen phones, except to provide the Find My / Activation Lock feature.


Most stolen phones are never recovered.


If the thief had the information needed to turn off Find My, and remove the phone from your Apple Account, that means that they will be able to reset your phone and "make your phone their own" to have a perfectly usable phone to use for themselves, or resell for ill-gotten gain.


Even if you could see a location for the phone, it would be very unwise to go there and confront criminals in person. You might lose a lot more than just a phone.


You should secure your Apple Account immediately, if you have not done so already.

If you think your Apple Account has been compromised - Apple Support


You can also report the theft to the police and to your carrier (phone company). There's not much chance that you will get your phone back, but you could ask the carrier to blacklist the phone so that it will never receive cellular service again from any carrier that honors the blacklist. Because Find My was disabled, the thief will still be able to use the phone as a sort of iPod touch, but blacklisting will make it useless as a phone.

How to recover my stolen phone

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