Every iphone I have seen or used that has a passcode set still allows calls to be answered without needing the passcode.
However, it might be possible to set an iphone so that a passcode is required to answer the phone. I haven’t checked. But even if so I suspect hardly anyone sets up their phone that way.
Yes.
I would assume that to be normal phone behavior, but I don’t know. I mean, it’d be a pain in the ass if I had to put in my passcode every time my phone rings to answer it (especially if I’m driving.)
Unfortunately it will turn out to be Craig Kelly.
But you must answer with “New phone, who dis?”.
This is why my lock screen shows my email address. But yes, taking it to an Apple Store should do the trick.
I’m not sure how much it would help to know what language, but … is it really that hard to figure out what language it is? Maybe that would be a useful clue.
If the phone’s owner has find my phone enabled, then they will be able to go onto iCloud and mark the phone as lost, which will cause it to show a “lost” message. Of course the phone won’t know that until it is someplace where it gets a signal.
If it is truly a foreign phone and roaming is disabled, then it won’t get a signal just by turning it on. If it is a local phone, or has roaming turned on, then it’s screen will change to whatever message the owner has set to appear on their lost phone.
It’s possible the foreign language is the lost message, in which case you’ll need another phone to translate the message.
If the phone isn’t getting a mobile signal, then it should automatically connect to the Wi-Fi at an apple store, so yeah, return it to apple when convenient.
It’s also possible the owner had Find My disabled, or doesn’t know how to use it.
Because of the way apple locks phones, it is worthless as a phone without the owner releasing it from their account, so not worth selling or using.
As a former long-time user of PalmPilots, they were great for many years but then their quality degraded significantly. They became painful to use. So I saved these 2 for some target practice.
My middle daughter lost her iPhone in a store.
She had the find my phone thing installed.
She immediately went back to the store with another phone and looked at everyplace she had went to in the store, looking.
She later remembered she had, had the phone in her back pocket.
She got the find my phone gps going and found the address where it was located.
It was a bad part of town so she decided to call the cops. They came and filed a report.
But refused to go to the address and retrieve it.
It was just a loss.
Now.
A variation on this: my lock screen shows “IF FOUND, PLEASE CALL XXX-XXX-XXXX” where the x 's are my wife’s phone number. She has the same message on her lock screen referring to my phone number. I am going to see if there is enough room to add my email - good idea.
My brother, SiL and I have an app called, “Find My”. All out devices are on it and, if one of us misplaces a device, either of the other two can locate it. My SiL was celebrating with friends this past weekend and, after tipping a few, left her phone somewhere. I was able to locate the exact address of its location. I mentioned the address, and she knew immediately where she had left it. Phone recovered with a happy ending.
So, the person who lost the phone in question here would be best served if you turned it in because a location app would have an address that could be accessed. “In the middle of a field” isn’t much of a help.
Has nobody tried calling the phone yet? You can find out the phone’s IMEI number in a couple ways, but that doesn’t do you much good unless you know what carrier it belongs to, and then they’re not really going to share much info with you (but at least you’d know who to return the phone to.) Looking online, it seems Apple isn’t going to be much of a help and will most likely recycle the phone.
One trick is that Siri is still accessible even when locked (unless expressly disabled), so you can ask Siri: “Hey Siri, who’s phone is this?” (Or press the button to call up Siri if “Hey Siri” is not activated.) And, if the person has set that information, it will say. You can also try “Call/text Mom” or “Call Dad” or “Call Home” I know you found the phone in a foreign language, but it’s worth a try.
I see–it used to take five hits to kill a PalmPilot, now it only takes one.
I use “FindMy” all the time to find my iPhone and iPad at home. Once I found my iPhone in a crevice by my Jeep driver’s seat. I had already looked in my Jeep, but “FindMy” insisted it was there, so I looked again and found it.
Write down your contact info and “I have your phone and would like to return it” on a paper and take a photo of it with their iPhone. If they have iCloud, and it’s not set to “WiFi only” the photo will upload to their Apple Photos library, and hopefully they will see it and contact you.
Does it have a case? Take it off and see if their contact info is underneath. (also a good idea to do for yourself)
Do people actually upload their photos to iCloud? That’s about the fastest way possible to use up your cloud storage space.
Surely the phone has been replaced by now.
I found a lost cell phone a couple of years ago. It wasn’t locked, so I used it to call people on it whose numbers were stored and told them about the lost phone. Then I took it to the local police station and told them when and where I found it, and how I’d called to let people know it had been found and where to claim it. I figured the police would verify the owner before handing it over.
It got back to the correct owner, who left me a thank you message.
She left it at a massage parlor?
I’m not standing in line just to turn in a phone. When I found one, I got a cable to charge it enough that it would turn on, figured out it was T-Mo. Went to their store (no line); they were able to look up info & contact the owner. Ended up leaving it at a different store that was closer to the two of us. T-Mo never gave me any more info than he lives in ___ town, can you take it to a store closer to there to leave it?
