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I have a question, if you remotely wipe your iPhone is it usable at that point, or bricked? If usable, couldn't a thief just steal your iPhone and wait for you

• blub 7y ago
  If it's wiped it has to be activated, which requires logging in on iCloud.
• yardie 7y ago
  Not really. The next time you try to activate it. The activation servers will recognize it as being attached to an iCloud account and ask for your iCloud password. This is why resellers want it removed from iCloud and will visually confirm it. You can get halfway through the setup process before realizing it’s still locked to another account. We learned the hard way, once, when returning a company phone.