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[asterix]

@RRSODL You are being very coy about the circumstances of the 'theft'. Was the phone physically grabbed from her hand as she used it or surreptitiously slid from her coat pocket or handbag as she made her way through a crowded place? Or, was it taken while left unattended after being conspicuously used and displayed to all and sundry, advertising its presence and whereabouts?
I'm not condoning either method of theft but one is clearly a serious crime while the other is a shame and maybe a valuable lesson to your daughter to be a bit more careful with her valuable possesions (but then again, maybe not because daddy got her a replacement the very next day!)


I will repeat again, I'm not saying it is right that her phone was taken in either circumstance but if it was the latter then maybe this is one of life's experiences that you/she will just have to suck up, learn the lesson and move on?

I was hoping @RRSODL would be kind enough to repond to your query.

It's a sad fact of life we must be careful about valuables (this is not an ideal world..) and if we are not then reporting it to police wastes every one's time and makes it easier for thieves to go on thieving.

 

[Big Nick]

Yeah but the thing is, in this and many other instances I'm sure, is that what RRSODL is saying is that the police where given the location where the phone was and still weren't interested.
Why do you have to go and make a report and all that kind of thing, when all that was needed was a swift reaction at the time and the jobs done?

You've missed the point, go and get the other side of it is what I'm saying then make a decision on a complaint etc if what his daughter says is clearly the case and they have failed to investigate. It may also be the officers were called away to an emergency and clearly they can't continue looking for a stolen phone if there's a fight going on somewhere near by etc.
Get all the facts then decide
I know when I've tested the iPhone tracking app on my phone its often ended up being not that precise and could of indicated a few houses you can't go busting in them all or searching every person in that street
More information is needed I feel

 

[Roadrider48]

You've missed the point, go and get the other side of it is what I'm saying then make a decision on a complaint etc if what his daughter says is clearly the case and they have failed to investigate. It may also be the officers were called away to an emergency and clearly they can't continue looking for a stolen phone if there's a fight going on somewhere near by etc.
Get all the facts then decide
I know when I've tested the iPhone tracking app on my phone its often ended up being not that precise and could of indicated a few houses you can't go busting in them all or searching every person in that street
More information is needed I feel

Mobile theft is a minor crime, I agree.
Job and budget cuts are also a problem.
But one thing is for sure. If your phone is stolen; 99% you won't see it again.

 

[Big Nick]

Mobile theft is a minor crime, I agree.
Job and budget cuts are also a problem.
But one thing is for sure. If your phone is stolen; 99% you won't see it again.

Sorry RR none of the above is really relevant to the OP's initial observation. The police HAVE attended and he deems the service and quality of the investigation lacking, my comments are to try and assist him with his query rather than him writing it off to (at the moment bad) experience

 

[Roadrider48]

Sorry RR none of the above is really relevant to the OP's initial observation. The police HAVE attended and he deems the service and quality of the investigation lacking, my comments are to try and assist him with his query rather than him writing it off to (at the moment bad) experience

Ok.

 

[gaz]

iOS 7 for iPhones and iPads now come with Activation Lock. When a thief steals it, you can track it and/or wipe it just as now, but even if the thief does a factory reset they won't be able to use it again without the original owner's Apple ID login.

That has been around for much longer than iOS 7.

 

[Spoked Wheels]

I think it is important to add how it happened or at least how my daughter and friends think it happened.

The 3 girls were sitting at a table at the restaurant, they were on the phone just before they left, knowing my daughter she would have been checking emails, twitter, facebook, you name it. She put her phone in her handbag and made their way out. They suspect it happened as they were leaving, some people were coming in at the same time some people were going out and all three girls were stacked in the middle for 10 seconds or so. When they got to the place they were going they realised what had happened. So they quickly tried to track it with the other phone and they could see the phone moving along the same street they were in.

We don't spoil her but it's a piece of mine for us to be able to contact her on the phone hence the reason I got her a phone right away. She's a good girl, graduated from university in May, had 3 interviews and 3 job offers. In July she started her job. London is expensive for a young graduate so we help here and there.
We've decided to drop the matter now, she wiped out the phone and she was told the phone would be as good as dead now, we doubt she is not going to get it back now.

 

[jefmcg]

I find the blame game weird, it's easy to get robbed in London, you only have to relax for a second. The night my handbag was stolen I was conscious enough of the risk of robbery to transfer my wallet to my bag in case of pickpockets, but I left it at a table with 3 sober friends at a not very crowded pub on the unspoken assumption they were watching it. They weren't, and it was an expensive lesson. It's rare now for my bag to come off under any circumstances now.

Some time later, I was enjoying some beers with colleagues here, standing outside. I actually decided not to add my bag to the small pile of backpacks we were standing around. At the end of the evening, we found there was one less backpack than when we arrived: obviously someone leaving the bar had picked it up, right in front of us. Lucky it was a bag with an unloved ipod and a paperback, not the one with 3 phones and 2 laptops.

Yes, both lapses, but it can easily happen. Your daughter has learnt an important lesson, and some thief is a few pounds richer.

 

[CopperBrompton]

That has been around for much longer than iOS 7.

No, it's an iOS 7 feature. Find My Phone and remote wipe have both been available for much longer, but Activation Lock was only introduced with iOS 7.

 

[gaz]

No, it's an iOS 7 feature. Find My Phone and remote wipe have both been available for much longer, but Activation Lock was only introduced with iOS 7.

You are indeed correct, did not realise that was separate to the other features, which as you say have been around for longer.