You cannot change the IMEI on an IPhone past IPhone 6. You’d need to root the device. Wikipedia actually keeps a pretty good article on what exactly is possible on which device here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_jailbreaking
> I’m living in a country where it is useless to call the police to have some help and where this people don’t risk nothing going this.
And as a Manitoban, I know full well you guys are a confused bunch, but last I checked your province hasn’t plunged into complete anarchy yet.
I’m also not really sure why some shady tech dealer would ever want to change the IMEI? Was in IOS for 2 years and never seen it. Sure, it’s blacklisted if reported stolen, but to replace it with another, you’d have to have to replace it with an IMEI from the same model and rough manufacturing date, otherwise the carrier will refuse it anyways. Seems like a lot of work for crooks when they can just turn around and tell their prospective buyers to just use Whatsapp or some app that gives them a phone number.
Whatever the reason you refuse to contact police regarding this is, if the phone was signed into your apple ID before it was stolen, it’s useless to whomever stole it because of the activation lock alone.
Former Apple Advisor.
You cannot change the IMEI on an IPhone past IPhone 6. You’d need to root the device. Wikipedia actually keeps a pretty good article on what exactly is possible on which device here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_jailbreaking
> I’m living in a country where it is useless to call the police to have some help and where this people don’t risk nothing going this.
You’re from Québec? https://www.reddit.com/r/DopamineDetoxing/comments/gehj5o/comment/fpsfvo3/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
And as a Manitoban, I know full well you guys are a confused bunch, but last I checked your province hasn’t plunged into complete anarchy yet.
I’m also not really sure why some shady tech dealer would ever want to change the IMEI? Was in IOS for 2 years and never seen it. Sure, it’s blacklisted if reported stolen, but to replace it with another, you’d have to have to replace it with an IMEI from the same model and rough manufacturing date, otherwise the carrier will refuse it anyways. Seems like a lot of work for crooks when they can just turn around and tell their prospective buyers to just use Whatsapp or some app that gives them a phone number.
Whatever the reason you refuse to contact police regarding this is, if the phone was signed into your apple ID before it was stolen, it’s useless to whomever stole it because of the activation lock alone.