UPS has been an absolute travesty lately. I had a physical Apple Credit card replacement delivered By UPS.

The card was improperly delivered to a business in the wrong address in an adjacent city to mine. Even noted on the tracking info (that’s how I found out).

I immediately filled out an undelivered package claim to UPS. Within 3 minutes, I get a “package lost” report back from UPS. UPS completed their investigation in 3 MINUTES!!

Well, I decided to drive to the business address listed on the tracking info. A label sticker from my small envelope had stuck to one of the other large packages that had been delivered to this business. The business gave me my package after I showed them my drivers license. All was well.

But the fact that the UPS driver could actually scan the item (and they did, since this address was noted on tracking), and not receive some type of alarm, is astonishing.

UPS is absolute garbage in my opinion

Contacts stored on iCloud are always also stored on device. In this scenario, like with most of iCloud’s services, iCloud acts as a synchronization service so that the data stored on one device is available on all devices.

Question what if there is no cell service and I need to look at a contact or some other iCloud stored piece of info, then what happens if not stored locally? I know this could be rare but I come from a Windows and Android and IT background where I have some things stored in the cloud, some in cloud for backup and some locally, some synced.

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Thanks.

there was never an option to keep it on, i wish it was

Phone REBEL. You can find them on Amazon

Caudabe sheath!!

is RAW mode better quality?

I'm sure they're required to in some countries.

Am I being Rick rolled?

You need a magsafe mount, even the cheap magsafe mounts from amazon should work fine. Then when you get one of those magsafe mounts, try a caudabe sheath. The strongest magsafe you will find.

Imagine you make a very secure software that no one can open except the person with a password for it, there’s literally nothing you can do to open it except entering the password, would the features of the software suddenly change when you switch countries? No.

It doesn’t depend on the law, it’s just that Apple can’t open a phone without a password, they don’t have a master key.

It says 9+ if it’s more than 9 I think

They don't even need to call. There are services out there that thieves can use to send a text to a victim whose iPhone has been stolen (obviously, after they've replaced it or are using a temporary phone).

The text purports to be from Apple, saying "we've located your iPhone!" and then directs them to click a link to a fake web page asking for their Apple ID and password. Once the thieves have that, they can log into the real iCloud page and remove activation lock on the phone.

Your friend should change her iCloud password ASAP.

Here's an article that describes it in more detail.

In general, any time you misplace your phone or it's stolen, you should NEVER directly click on links sent to you via text message that claim to be from Apple. To try and track your phone, you should manually navigate to iCloud.com and log in that way.

I’m assuming that they don’t ship the iPhone box itself uncovered.

Maybe he has notes on his ex 🤷‍♂️

Yes, but I haven’t heard of the iCloud lock being removed like that.

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So they call in pretending to be her, get the phone unlocked? That makes sense. They did it in just under thirty minutes. Not their first rodeo.

They removed the phone from iCloud. That’s that part that I thought was impossible except for by Apple.

I didn’t want to and was sketched out by it, to me it doesn’t seem rational, but they didn’t have any in stock and I didn’t have a choice. I wouldn’t get a trade in if I had gone to the apple store and bought one. They did mention as I was ordering one that they saw lots of theft but I didn’t think it would be from the couriers themselves, or that it would happen to me.

I have learned and will definitely not be ordering an iPhone ever again, especially not over the holidays. Sadly I was unable to choose when my X Max kicked the bucket 🥲

Either way, I’m getting refunded for it but the whole situation has been a mess and ridiculous.

Mous case. Swear by them.

Exactly. I was told by the Verizon store representative that they hire seasonal outside help for the influx of holiday orders, which apparently explains a lot of the theft according to them.

UPS (and every ship co) have a ton of internal sorters. No they don’t know who touches every package - impossible. This stuff happens often and sometimes they are caught internally and handed over to police. Some hubs even search after shifts. With the employment crisis this type of thing will increase. Id avoid shipping an iphone during the holidays….

The iPhone 14 box was empty, not the shipping box. The iPhone 14 was inside the shipping box. When they ship them, they put them in brown cardboard boxes.

The iPhone 12 is at the bottom, under tissue paper, receipt, and a bunch of papers explaining how to transfer the phone and the phone plan, etc. I’m assuming the iPhone 12 is in there since it’s wrapped. I’ll let them know tomorrow and they can let me know what to do with it. I wonder if it’s someone else’s phone they ordered.

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