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i__jump OP t1_j27iu13 wrote

Reply to comment by xShinGouki in My new iPhone was stolen by UPS. by i__jump

Yea, they also sent me an iPhone 12 which I had noticed in the very bottom of the delivery box once I came back from the phone store. I didn’t get charged for it and it’s wrapped in plastic so I’m assuming it hasn’t been tampered with.

They said they’d be giving me a call tomorrow to complete the number transfer (I have a temporary phone number since apparently they had to like, cancel or close a service ticket for the stolen phone or whatever, I don’t know) so when they call me tomorrow I’m gonna let them know I was given a free phone by accident.

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xShinGouki t1_j27ij2s wrote

Reply to comment by i__jump in My new iPhone was stolen by UPS. by i__jump

Ya at least you got it worked out. But a close call. Sometimes the idiots deliver it to a wrong address and the person accepts it knowing it’s not even his name. But this doesn’t make sense with a phone. Because the phone needs to be signed. They can’t just drop it off anywhere. It has to be verified by the name and stuff. The phone companies ship it with those conditions. So it’s just bad delivery people.

But ya next time just request it to be sent to the nearest store. Easy peasy

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i__jump OP t1_j27i9ez wrote

Reply to comment by RandomBloke2021 in My new iPhone was stolen by UPS. by i__jump

In my defense, they didn’t give me store shipping as an option. This is my first time on my own phone plan (I just got off of the family plan) so I just sort of assumed it was standard. They just asked me for my home address to get it shipped there. They probably didn’t want to deal with all the deliveries, especially over holidays.

Edit: I did pick it up at the station. They came for delivery once, I missed them bc I was walking my dog, and I had to call customer service to tell them to not take it out for delivery again the next day, and to just hold it at the station. So I guess it was likely stolen before it was even shipped, or while being processed at some point, according to some of these comments.

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i__jump OP t1_j27hpf8 wrote

Reply to comment by xShinGouki in My new iPhone was stolen by UPS. by i__jump

I should have asked for store delivery, I wish I did. They didn’t really give it as an option. Hindsight is 20/20. Thankfully it got resolved and I got a phone in my hands by the end of the day, at least. Lesson learned.

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maisonhall t1_j27guzj wrote

Reply to comment by Felielf in Does apple do that ? by isahilkumar

Assuming US scenario—state crime labs have digital forensic units, which generally train up moderately technically familiar folks into forensic examiners. As previously noted, pay is generally far undervalued—the pro is that they do the training portion. Counties and large municipalities have also started to establish their own labs to reduce backlog.

In general, look on governmentjobs, and expect 6mo+ for background check (and often polygraph), and then a year of training.

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Wellcraft19 t1_j27fbv1 wrote

Reply to How to get everything off of a phone to a computer or external drive? by amplexus23

Assuming that your friend used iCloud:

  1. You have a Mac
  2. Create a local user account on it
  3. Connect that local user account to your friend's iCloud account.
  4. Allow Mac to sync down content from friend's iCloud (photos/videos, notes, contacts, web links/bookmarks, reminders, Passwords (yes, don't forget to export those)
  5. Copy/back up content to location desired (likely use local external drive to give to the widow)
  6. Once you have verified with the phone that you have everything, sign out from (his) iCloud account, deleted the temp ;ocal user profile
  7. Turn off 'Find' on the iphone, sign out from iCloud on the phone, and once that is done, do a full reset before handing phone over to the son.
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