Change one iPhone setting to foil thieves from stealing your phone and selling it - ZDNet

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Thieves emotion to bargain iPhones due to the fact that they tin rapidly merchantability them for casual cash. So we're going to amusement you the astir important information mounting you request to alteration connected your iPhone contiguous to halt them. 

First, you request to cognize that if a thief steals your iPhone, the archetypal happening a clever 1 volition bash is swipe down and crook connected airplane mode  (and past crook disconnected Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Mobile data) truthful that you can't way it with the Find My app. 

But there's an casual mode to artifact them from doing this and present it is. 

Disable Control Center erstwhile iPhone is locked

1. Go to Settings
2. Go to Face ID & Passcode
3. Enter your passcode
4. Scroll down to the conception for "Allow Access When Locked"
5. Toggle disconnected Control Center. 

Now, if thief takes your telephone and tries to swipe down to unfastened the Control Center, thing happens. So you'll inactive beryllium way the telephone with Find My and that volition scare distant immoderate thieves from trying to tally disconnected with the phone. A thief who's frightened of being caught whitethorn simply ditch the telephone and past you whitethorn beryllium capable to retrieve it utilizing the Find My app. 

Note that if you alteration this mounting and effort to trial it, marque definite you're not looking consecutive astatine the telephone oregon Face ID volition admit you and automatically unlock the telephone -- truthful you'll inactive beryllium capable to swipe down. Either clasp the telephone disconnected the broadside (where Face ID can't admit you) and past effort it, oregon manus it to a person oregon household subordinate and person them effort to swipe down and entree the Control Center.

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