Comments on: How to Remote Wipe an iPhone or iPad

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 13:20:37 +0000

Hope you have a painful accident

By: Ian M

Ian M — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 02:05:32 +0000

Did your erase succeed?
Hope your got caught for whatever it was you did.

By: jason

jason — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 11:37:50 +0000

maybe dont get your phone and yourself involed in illegal activity? that help?

By: Dimitri

Dimitri — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 18:45:27 +0000

Okay, so I got my phone taken away in school today, and it is now with the police as ‘evidence’. So, I went on iCloud and used the erase/clear data feature or whatever, it says my iPhone is offline, there is a pending erase, and that this iPhone will be erased when it connects to the internet. Okay, so I have 3g on my phone and all of that, why is it saying it needs to connect to the internet? I have to be at the police station at 4pm (it’s 2:45), and they’re going to ask me to open up the phone, but the erase is still pending. How am I going to be able to get the phone to be erased without manually doing it from the phone itself? the phone is saying it needs to be connected to the internet, how am i going to do that without manually connecting it to the internet? ugh help me, I’m stressing

By: Scott l

Scott l — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 07:45:53 +0000

What info does it actualy wipe of the phone
Does it get rid of SMS messages ect

By: Kiki

Kiki — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 18:41:25 +0000

Can anyone tell me if you can track the phone that wiped your phone? This is important and I need an answer ASAP!!!

By: Cathie W.

Cathie W. — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 02:02:25 +0000

I was wondering if there is anyway that we can get our information back on the iphone once it is wiped clean. We erased the information by mistake. Now my husband has lost all of his valuable pictures, texts and some of his contacts. I assumed that it was saved to icloud on the computer. When we plugged the phone back into our itunes account it did reload his cellular phone number but not all of the important data. Can someone please help? Thanks so much!

By: da12k l0rd

da12k l0rd — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 19:00:00 +0000

How can you cancel this feature ? Is there anyway I can cancel remote lock and remote wipe for my Macbook pro ? I just can’t sit with the thought that if someone hacked my apple id, then my macbook pro would lose all the data it had ..

By: Matt B

Matt B — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 12:03:51 +0000

I’m not so sure on the Delete Data function after 10 failed passcode attempts. Surely if the phone is stolen the thief can just keep trying passcodes (within a matter of seconds) until auto wipe is activated and then you can no longer us the Find My iPhone App to actually trace your phone and voila, the thief has a clean iPhone.

I’d rather try Find my Phone first to get my phone back and then remotely enable Data Delete as a real last resort.

By: Anon A Mus

Anon A Mus — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 12:22:56 +0000

The good news is that my friend gave me his iPhone 3G. The bad news is that Apple won’t allow iCloud to run on it. Are there any other remote wipes solutions?

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 21:33:53 +0000

It’s better than nothing — but for wi-fi only devices (like iPod or iPad with no 3G), it seems you are in a catch-22 to use this in that you’d have to configure it to automatically join any unsecured wifi network or hope that it is lost only in areas where you’ve already configured it to connect to a ‘known’ wifi network.

If you’re really wanting to protect your device, you’d also need to configure it to have a complex passcode and set it to auto wipe after 10 failed logins.