The Find My iPhone app is a great tool for finding a lost or stolen iPhone, but thieves and hackers can undermine its effectiveness by disabling the app. If your iPhone can’t transmit its GPS location, you may not be able to recover it.
How to Protect Your iPhone from Thieves + What to Do if You Lose It!
While there’s no foolproof way to guarantee thieves won’t be able to disable the Find My iPhone app, you can make it harder. Enabling another option in your device’s settings can give you more time to track down your iPhone. Learn how to protect this feature with iOS 12 or later.
To prevent anyone from turning off Find My iPhone, set a restriction on your phone. This extra layer of security requires a unique password to turn off the location services the app uses.
Open the Settings app.
