Apple eliminates the possibility of checking if an iPhone is stolen before buying it

Activation Lock

IPhones are each year one of the most stolen devices in the world, for which Apple tried to remedy it by putting the Activation Lock functionality to work. This function prevents any Apple device, after being stolen, from being reset and later sold on the second-hand market.

Furthermore, those of Cupertino offered users a web page where it was possible to check the block status of any device. This allowed any user to make sure that the iPhone for example was not stolen. Unfortunately this page would have been removed in the last hours.

At the moment, the reasons why Apple decided to delete this web page, which was very useful to many users, are not known, although the deletion does not affect the Activation Lock. Of course, from now on you will have to be more careful when purchasing a second-hand iOS device.

Now it's time to wait and be careful, but hopefully the guys from Tim Cook Please correct your decision or offer us another method to check if an iPhone or iPad has been stolen. And it is that the second-hand market for Apple devices is full and sometimes, with many stolen devices.

Does Apple's decision to remove the web page from which we could check if an iOS device was stolen makes sense to you?.


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