One of the new features of iOS 7 is the possibility to lock, forever, an iPhone, iPod touch or iPad that we have lost or stolen. If you find yourself in that unpleasant situation, you can lock your iPhone remotely, from any computer or other iOS device you have on hand. If you block it, nothing will allow you to activate it again, it does not matter if it is restored and there is absolutely nothing left that belongs to your memory or has changed the SIM card; Apple's servers will never allow activation of that terminal.
This feature is called Activation Lock . The operation is very simple ... just activate Find my iPhone in the iCloud section of the Settings App. From then on, your iPhone will be associated with your iTunes account, and to deactivate Find my iPhone, people who have your iPhone will have to enter the password. Without it, it cannot be disabled.
In the case of a theft, when you return home you can lock the terminal and it can no longer be used, as soon as it is connected by any means and you receive the order to block it from Apple. Taking into account that the interesting thing about an iPhone is that it is connected to the network, even if it is restored, or sold, sooner or later it will end up connecting. Apple will have in its records the blocking of that specific iPhone, and as soon as it tries to activate, it will be blocked again until we remove that block in our iTunes account, via the iCloud website (at icloud.com/find ) for example.
It is also possible, as before, to send a message that cannot be removed from the screen, sound an alarm or block access to the terminal without deleting its contents, to let the person who finds it know how to return it or to discourage stolen or stolen. If none of that works, you can erase all your content remotely, and also lock forever so that it can't be activated anymore. The main objective of this measure is to disincentivize the theft of iPhones or any other iOS device since blocked, their sale value is practically nil, it would only be worth to dismember and sell as spare parts, something in which the vast majority of thieves it has not the slightest interest.
If you have iOS 7, check that in the iCloud section of the Settings App you have Find my iPhone activated. Also check how it asks for your iTunes account password if you try to disable it. It is the confirmation that you are already a little more protected.
