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How To Check If Your iPhone Is Stolen?

It is unfortunate to lose a device whether it is your iPhone or any other smartphone. As you stored most of your information such as sensitive files, photos and contacts as you go. That’s why you have to be careful while commuting or going out somewhere. Similarly, while buying a second hand phone, you have to careful that you are getting a device which could have been stolen.

Apple has addressed the issue of finding your iPhone in case you have kept in somewhere or it had been stolen; by releasing a feature ‘Find My iPhone in 2010’. However, thieves found a work around as they can turn off iPhone or erase data of it to get away with it.  Apple made another attempt by releasing a feature Activation Lock in iOS 7. With this feature live, it was impossible to use an iPhone with new Apple ID, unless you don’t know the Apple ID which was used to activate it the first time. This dropped iPhone theft attempt to quite a number.

However, it was of no use to people who bought used iPhones as there was no way to check Activation Lock status in advance. A thief can play the customer and lure him into buying a useless iPhone and he would not be able to know until he gets its hands on the device. So, what to do?

Well, in this post, we have discussed how to check if your iPhone is stolen.

How To Identify If Your iPhone Is Stolen?

You can check the IMEI number and MEID number to detect whether your iPhone is stolen or not. To do that, follow these steps:

Go to the settings icon (gear symbol) on the home screen.

Once you get your hands on IMEI and MEID numbers of your iPhone, you need a website such as IMEI Pro, Swappa or Stolen Phone Checker.

IMEI Pro

You can also use another website, Swappa to check iMEI and MEID numbers of your iPhone to be sure that you are not using a reported lost or stolen iPhone.

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Stolen Phone Checker

Another way to check if iPhone is stolen or not, is by checking it on ‘Stolen Phone Checker’. The website works for both iPhone and Android.

Note: You can enter upto 5 IMEI numbers to check in a single day.

Once the website searches and gets you the results, check if your iPhone is blacklisted

Look under “Device Status”, located at the upper side of the website page. If it comes to be “Not reported lost or stolen”, then the device is clean.

Swappa

To check if the iPhone is stolen, go to the website of Swappa, as it is another way to identify it. Swappa is a website that keeps a blacklist iPhones or other phones stolen or lost records.

Note: With Swappa, you can run free checks for 10 devices a day.

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So, these are the ways to check if your iPhone is Stolen or lost. Now before buying a used iPhone, don’t forget to check IMEI or MEID number for lost or stolen devices.

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