If you want to beat the criminal when the crime done is
the stealing of you Phone, I am sure that you would love this article and this
article is meant for you!
In London 50%, New York 25% and in 40% in San Francisco
is the downfall in the no of stolen iPhones over a period of past 12 months.
This drop was when Apple included a lock, named as Activation Lock in the smart
phones. These stats are reported by Reuters on Wednesday. The stats were
confirmed by the officials of the respective three cities.
The best part is that if the device has been stolen and
the app ‘Find My Phone’ is deactivated, then the Activation Lock will not allow
the app by being used with a different account.
First introduced in the seventh version of this marvelous
OS, iOS 7, the activation lock needs a password and an id (Apple ID). After this
step only, one shall erase and reactivate your stolen iPhone/iPad. Thus, the
thief wont be able to sell your stolen device to any one for earning quick
bucks. Even this kind of feature is provided in the 5.0 Lollipop, named as ‘Factory
Reset Protection’. This feature requires the password of the owner before any
activity like wiping up the phone can take place.
The senior officials of USA had been asking the firm to
take such step in order to take down the thieves. After all Apple has done this
kindness! It has introduced this kill switch which helps to crack the stolen
phones down.
Here are some confessions done by a thief, a smartphonethief
The law in California is not being implemented until
the first of this July. But no worries California, the companies have already
started to take steps as they implement the features required.
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Some mobile companies argued against this feature. They stated that with the launching of such kind of features, the device is more prone to hacking.
Both the world leaders, Microsoft and Google initially opposed this law of California.
Yeah some time later, they both astonishingly started to stand in the support
of this law.
Our iPhones and other Apple communication
devices shall be made safer; in fact safest; when the manufacturers set this
feature by default.
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