Finding a Lost Device
While this book is largely about how you manage your own equipment, it’s incredibly useful to know how other people interact with your stuff when it’s lost or stolen and they find it. This lets you understand how someone might reply to you—by calling, emailing, or posting a note in a neighborhood forum—and what they would see that led them to it.
How Lost Mode Appears on Devices
Once the action is sent to an iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Apple Watch:
If the device is connected to the internet and asleep, the next time it’s woken, a passcode must be entered to gain access.
If the device is online and in use, the operating system drops the user into the Lock screen where the passcode-entry dialog or keypad is shown along ...
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