You must have heard many stories of smartphone theft. What if your stolen or lost phone is recovered due to some feature present in your smartphone? One such case has come to light, in which a person has shared the story of getting back his two stolen phones.
A person present on social media platform X by the name of Tech Star Shahrukh had informed about this incident. The matter is of last year. On April 15, 2023, Shahrukh and his wife had gone to Jama Masjid Delhi for Iftar. He had three phones at that time.
What is the whole story?
He had kept all three phones – iPhone 13, Xiaomi Civi 2 and Redmi K50 Ultra in his bag. Since the couple had gone to Jama Masjid during Ramzan, there was a huge crowd there. He kept iPhone 13 and Xiaomi Civi 2 in one pocket of his sidebag, while Redmi K50 Ultra in the other.
At Gate No. 1 of Jama Masjid, Shahrukh found that the chain of his bag was open and two phones were missing from it. Someone had taken out iPhone 13 and Xiaomi Civi 2 from his bag. Shahrukh immediately thought of tracking his iPhone. For this he accessed iCloud on his third phone.
iPhone failed
However, for some reason iCloud was not working. Those who stole the phones had switched off the iPhone. Tracking the iPhone was also difficult. After this Shahrukh called Xiaomi Civi 2, which was ringing.
He remembered that he had turned on the Shutdown Confirmation feature in Xiaomi’s phone. Because of turning on this feature, no one can turn off the Xiaomi phone without the password. Not only off, but cannot even turn off the internet. This was the reason why this phone was still ringing and its internet was also on.
Both phones were found due to Xiaomi’s features
Since the thieves did not know the password, they were not able to switch off the phone. After this, the user entered all the details of Xiaomi Civi 2 on his third phone and turned on Find Device. On doing this, the location of the device started appearing on the screen, which was of Jama Masjid only.
Along with this, the play sound feature was turned on. As soon as this feature was turned on, the alarm started playing continuously on Xiaomi Civi 2, which the thieves were not able to silence. After this someone picked up Shahrukh’s call and told him that his phone was at gate number 2, he should come and collect it.
When he reached gate number 2, a man gave him both his phones and left from there. However, the phone that Shahrukh is talking about was launched only in China. This phone is not available in India or global market.