iPhone Stolen Device Protection offers increased safety for your accounts and financial information if someone steals your handset and its passcode.
Here’s how to activate the security feature, and — more importantly — why you should do it now.
How and why to use iPhone Stolen Device Protection
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+25This is a cool idea, but the article shows an older iOS on how to set this up. Now, in the latest iOS:
Face ID & Passcode are no loner on the top level of the Settings app. Now you have to go to Settings, then Privacy & Security, and then scroll way down to the bottom (second from bottom) to find Stolen Device Protection.
While this does not stop someone from forcing you to unlock your phone if they take it from you, you do have an hour to lock it from a computer or other Apple device, or iCloud.com before they can change your pass code on the phone.
But even more important, if on, it requires Face ID to access saved passwords, erasing the device, or accessing saved credit card info in Safari
I highly recommend you turn it on.
- Owen Rubin, Apple Expert. Worked in Vision Pro team and early Mac HW and OS engineer at Apple. Machines: 2017 iMac Pro 27" 5K 3GHz 10-Core Xenon Sonoma 14.x. 2023 14" MacBookPro M2 Max Ventura 13.x, 2018 16" MacBookPro Ventura 13.x, and a dozen or so older machines for testing. iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 6.
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