If Find My Phone is on and you also have a decent passcode on your phone, then you don't need to worry about any thief getting at what is on your phone. It is, nevertheless, useful to know how to disable this feature if you do want to use Restore from Backup using iTunes - see http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2702 Regards Harry
> On 7 Dec 2014, at 19:42, Don Risavy, Jr. <djrisav...@att.net> wrote: > > Ok will check that out. > If it is then what? > It’s enabled or turned on in my IPhone 6. > Thanks. > > > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Harry Bell > Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2014 10:59 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Find My Phone > > Go into Setting then down to iCloud and see if Find My Phone is set to On or > Off > > > > On 7 Dec 2014, at 16:12, Don Risavy, Jr. <djrisav...@att.net> wrote: > > How do you do this or find out if enabled or not? > Thanks. > > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Harry Bell > Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2014 6:53 AM > To: Abridged Recipients > Subject: [Bulk] Find My Phone > > I have just found a solution to something that had long puzzled me : if you > have turned on Find My Phone, then if your phone software gets messed up or > you get a new phone after losing your old one, you will not be able to > restore from the backup on your iTunes because a pop up will tell you that > you must first of all turn off Find My Phone on the old device - and this you > cannot do if you cannot get into your old phone! Well, the solution is to go > Online and sign in to your iCloud account and remove the old device from your > Find My Phone list of devices : http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2702 > Whew! I've now turned Find My Phone on for all my devices! Harry > > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. > All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any > questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a > member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators > directly rather than posting on the list itself. 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