Prevent deactivation of Find My iPhone

Dec 28, '10 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: crisss1205

Currently if you do not have a password on your device a thief (or child) could deactivate Find My iPhone. However most people don't know that you can prevent this by using a passcode. (This might require iOS 4.2 or later; I didn't have an earlier version to test it.)

To prevent anyone from turning it off you can do the following steps:

Now you cannot disable find my iPhone without the passcode. This also prevents changes to anything related to location services and changes made to your email accounts.

[crarko adds: I tested this, and it works as described. Since it's only a four digit passcode this isn't super secure, but it may give you time to locate and/or wipe the phone before it gets cracked.]

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