How can I track a stolen iPhone 16 Pro Max?

I lost my iphone 16 Pro max and still turned off. Is there away i can trace?


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Original Title: Stolen iphone 16 Pro max

Posted on Jun 22, 2025 4:27 PM

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Jun 22, 2025 4:38 PM in response to Haron115

Even if the iPhone is turned off, it is still sending out very brief intermittent Bluetooth signals that can be picked up by other iPhones in very close proximity.


This assumes of course that the battery has not run down.


If the phone does not appear when you use Find My to try to locate the phone, there are no other iPhones in very close proximity (the same room) as the iPhone 16.


All that you can do is keep trying to see if the phone might appear.


Unfortunately, iPhone thieves know all about this, so they put the phone in a special type of bag that will not allow the iPhone to either send or receive a signal. The can also wrap the phone in aluminum foil to do the same thing.


If the phone has not appeared after a few days, I'm sorry but you have to be realistic. The phone is gone.

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