My phone got stolen and I marked it as lost the night of. The people who stole my phone constantly send me messages pretending to be Apple (so they have my phone number) and have turned on the iPhone since I see new locations on the find my app but my request to mark as lost is still “pending”. Do they see the message I left? Why is it still pending if it’s been switched on?
iPhone 12
Derios,
You can find information about the status of your device when you mark it as lost in the resource provided previously.
When a device is marked as lost, one of these status notes appears below the Mark As Lost section:
Pending: If the device isn’t connected to a Wi-Fi or cellular network when you mark it as lost, Pending appears until the device goes online again.
Activated: Once the device goes online, the device is marked as lost.
Take care.
Hi Derios,
We'd love to assist you with your stolen iPhone. If the person is sending messages to you from the device, then it sounds like they may already have access to the device. More info on Lost Mode can be found here: Mark a device as lost in Find My on Mac
Cheers!
Sorry if it was unclear but they are not sending messages FROM my iPhone but rather to my phone number.
my question was regarding why my request to “mark as stolen” is still pending if I’ve received notifications about the iPhone being in a new location/ request to undo my activation lock.
thanks!
Stolen iPhone, Lost Mode “pending”
