How would you like a Find My iPhone that is impossible to disable? Today stealing iPhones is considered a waste of time if owners use passcodes access or fingerprint protection (the FBI knows this all too well), but according to a publication Apple could soon help you catch the thief too.
The company is said to have registered with degree patented a new technology that keeps Find My iPhone active even when the device is turned off, so you can locate a stolen iPhone quite easily.
Find My iPhone is a feature that allows owners to locate their phones from their accounts on iCloud, but the functionality of the application is lost when the device is switched off and the SIM card is removed.
But on the patent US20160323703 Apple has proposed a more advanced version of Find My iPhone that can work independently of the phone's status so you can locate an iPhone that the thief does.
As CultOfMac says, the patent describes that iPhone could have a special timer that starts automatically and activates Find My iPhone for a time just to send location data to the owner. According to the patent, iPhone does not need to be turned on or have a charged battery.
Find My iPhone could send location information using this new system by e-mail or SMS, if the SIM card is still present. It could connect to all known Wi-Fi networks to access the Internet.
Apple could improve the feature by allowing the device to connect to public wireless networks that do not require a password, but this is probably an idea the company is still looking at because of security risks.
At present, this technology is still in the patent stage, but we should not be surprised to see if it is available in the 2017 model.
