There’s no guarantee that these tips will protect you in every case or recover your iPhone, but following them will lower your overall risk. If you can’t get the iPhone back or it has sensitive information on it, delete the phone’s data remotely. Deleting data may not prevent the thief from using your iPhone, but at least he won’t have access to your personal data after that. If your iPhone was issued to you by your employer, your IT department may be able to remotely delete the data, too. Contact your company’s helpdesk to learn about your options. If you don’t like Find My iPhone, there are many other apps from the App Store will help you locate the phone. Some of these apps also allow you to remotely change security settings. Instead, contact the local police department (or, if you’ve already filed a report, the one you reported the theft to) and let law-enforcement officials know that you’ve got information about the location of your stolen phone. While the police may not always help, the more information you have, the more likely police are to recover the phone for you. Even if the police tell you they can’t help at first, if you can get data about the location of your phone, having the report may be necessary for getting the police to help you recover it. Plus, a stolen-phone report will get the device’s IMEI logged into a database so the phone cannot be wiped and used elsewhere, rendering it useless to the people who stole it. Before you cancel your phone service, try tracking it using Find My iPhone. After service is turned off, you won’t be able to track it anymore.
