Maybe when you go to restart or turn off your iPhone On some occasion, you may have noticed that a message appears at the bottom informing us that despite being turned off, the device can still be located.
This is a function that has been around for quite some time in iOS and that allows us to locate the mobile phone as if it were an AirTag, even if it is turned off or the battery runs out, however, for how long? Is there a way to deactivate it?
Locate an iPhone without a battery
In this article we are not going to focus on how to do it, since, in addition, many of you will already know, you just have to enter the search app from another device, or even from a computer browser, with our iCloud account, the question is, If it goes off, how long do I have to find it?
This will depend on many factors, since, if the “thief”, or person who finds it, turns it off manually, the search time could be infinite. You just have to think that an AirTag, with a battery with 10 times less capacity than an iPhone, lasts up to 2 years. It is true that the phone, despite being turned off, would consume more, but we would be talking about many days or weeks until the battery was exhausted when it was turned off, everything will also depend on the percentage it had at the time they did it.
But what if it turns off by itself? Another possible cause is that we lose the phone, or it is stolen, and the battery runs out. Despite not touching it, an iPhone with the network activated does not last long, and in a couple of days, with luck, it will be turned off due to lack of it. And assuming the thief isn't going to plug it into an outlet, how much time do I have?
Well, in addition to the hours it takes for the iPhone to turn off, you will have between 3 days and a week. Or at least those are the tests we have been able to carry out on an iPhone 13 Pro. All phones, despite indicating 1% battery, and then turning off, have more than what they indicate, and Apple has a hidden reserve that makes your phone die without being true. Both for these cases, and to protect it, since, as you know, it is not good to leave them at 0%, and the only way for this to happen is by forcing it to turn off before.
So, you know, if you lose it, you will have several days to recover it, as long as someone passes by it, since, if there are no iPhones nearby, they will not be able to send the location, since your mobile, when turned off, acts like an AirTag, without its own connection.
If that time has passed and your iPhone has lost its battery completely, you just have to wait, maybe one day someone will find it, or sell it, and whoever charges it will once again give you hope of getting it back. The iCloud link cannot be removed, and it will always be yours, at least from a distance.
