Mind yourself

Taking cell phones has been going on for years.

Cellphone theft has been rampant for a long time.

I'm with periscope on this one, not only are (most) cellphones locked but cmon they have almost no resale value if stolen, they're as common as Tic Tacs these days.

I'm just relaying what the guide said.

Stolen phones are typically reset using the factory reset option et voila, a new, clean phone to sell on.

I have worked in London for 30 years and never had a bag pickpocketed or phone stolen.

I thought this was going to be about riding the tube. We still laugh at ourselves many years later after jumping out of our skins when the baritone from nowhere first intoned “Mind the gap!” Having caught our collective breaths we then set about deciding what a gap was and how one minded it. Safe travels.

On an iPhone, it's only et voila IF you know the passcode, otherwise it's parts only.

There's software freely available that allows you to reset an iPhone without knowing the passcode.

Thanks Gail, that’s a very helpful article. I’ve just changed to an esim as we use iPhone’s password manager

BlockquoteOn an iPhone, it's only et voila IF you know the passcode, otherwise it's parts only.

At work I routinely receive iPhones from departed employees. Sometimes we can get the password to reset it, sometimes we can't. Enter an incorrect password ten times and it will reset. You can be wrong five times in a row; then it begins making you wait longer periods between attempts. The time between the ninth and tenth try is 24-hours. But it will wipe after the tenth incorrect p/w, at least the ones from Verizon in the US.