What To Do If Your Phone Is Stolen

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If you re lucky the person who stole your phone may answer. On a taxi seat or a subway car someone may answer who can meet you at a location to exchange the phone. Report your phone as stolen the first thing you can do is to report to the police that your phone has been stolen and get any necessary documents needed for filing an insurance claim. If you suspect it s been stolen wipe the data.

Report your lost or stolen device to local law enforcement. Find your device serial number. If you can t recover the phone right away file a report with the police in the place where the phone was stolen. If it s stolen wipe it.

Note that some enable you to report a stolen device via a web form. Law enforcement might request the serial number of your device. In fact if you want to recover a stolen phone most of your work has to be done before it disappears just as you must lock a door before your house gets robbed not afterward. If your missing device is covered by applecare with theft and loss you can file a claim for your lost or stolen iphone.

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Visit a local police station or call 131 444 for non urgent assistance. You should call your carrier if possible but if you do not have access to a phone you may also be able to report it on their website by logging into your account. The cloud option is also convenient since if your phone is stolen you can. After you wipe your phone contact your carrier to report it stolen.

If your phone has been stolen and you re able to track its location do not attempt to recover it yourself. If you call your phone and someone answers say hello this is your name and you re holding my cell phone. This step may or may not lead to the recovery of your iphone in fact the police may tell you there s very little they can do either because of the value of the phone or the number of thefts but having documentation should help when dealing with a phone and insurance companies. Alternately if your phone has simply been misplaced e g.

There s no point battling a gang of baddies just to retrieve your phone. Tell your carrier it s stolen. The best way is to do both and make multiple copies in case your computer fails you or your files get wiped.