> While Find My might be a useful tool if you forgot something at your friend's place, I doubt the probability of successful retrieval of a stolen phone is high

> While Find My might be a useful tool if you forgot something at your friend's place, I doubt the probability of successful retrieval of a stolen phone is high. What I hope is that some day most parts will have some form of authenticity verification built-in. Putting in stolen parts in another iPhone would just brick it and tell the holder to surrender it at the nearest Apple Store. > Police wouldn't move a finger (I had a similar experience in UK when I had a Macbook stolen in a central London restaurant). What I've been told by Brits living here in California is that certain crimes are simply not recorded by the police because it would make statistics look bad. According to him this was, in part, because politicians were pushing for it due to Brexit. > The return to risk ratio of dressing up as a batman and trying to retrieve the device yourself is not the best In some places, the government will even charge you with a crime for doing so (after the police refused to investigate of course).