<story><title>How Hackers and Scammers Break into iCloud-Locked iPhones</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xyq8v/how-to-unlock-icloud-stolen-iphone</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zensavona</author><text>Interestingly enough I was in Vietnam last week and had my iPhone XR snatched out of my hands by a guy on a motorbike. I locked it immediately from my partner&amp;#x27;s phone and noted that it had been immediately switched off. I figured it was surely gone forever and pretty much straight away went and bought a new iPhone.&lt;p&gt;When I was setting up my new phone I restored my latest backup from iCloud and upon doing so, my old stolen phone was no longer trackable since iCloud recognises the new one &lt;i&gt;as being the old one&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Although I am far from an Apple fanboy, I feel that their phones are the least-bad choice at the moment but I am really starting to question that after this experience. Not very happy about that, Apple. I am interested to know if by doing that the phone is now unlocked, or what the deal is, but I can&amp;#x27;t, since it&amp;#x27;s no longer trackable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Terretta</author><text>Don’t think this is correct.  My list of devices is littered with the old devices I restored backups from onto new devices.  I have to do extra steps to wipe and remove a device to be able to be adopted by new homes.&lt;p&gt;That said, it is a pet peeve of mine that the new phone from old backup workflow doesn’t prompt for a new device name or to rename the old device.  Reusing the name can be confusing if&amp;#x2F;when you still have both devices.</text></comment>
<story><title>How Hackers and Scammers Break into iCloud-Locked iPhones</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xyq8v/how-to-unlock-icloud-stolen-iphone</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zensavona</author><text>Interestingly enough I was in Vietnam last week and had my iPhone XR snatched out of my hands by a guy on a motorbike. I locked it immediately from my partner&amp;#x27;s phone and noted that it had been immediately switched off. I figured it was surely gone forever and pretty much straight away went and bought a new iPhone.&lt;p&gt;When I was setting up my new phone I restored my latest backup from iCloud and upon doing so, my old stolen phone was no longer trackable since iCloud recognises the new one &lt;i&gt;as being the old one&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Although I am far from an Apple fanboy, I feel that their phones are the least-bad choice at the moment but I am really starting to question that after this experience. Not very happy about that, Apple. I am interested to know if by doing that the phone is now unlocked, or what the deal is, but I can&amp;#x27;t, since it&amp;#x27;s no longer trackable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>londons_explore</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s probably no longer trackable not because you added a new phone to the account, but instead because the thief just used one of these tricks to remove your old phone.</text></comment>