Find My iPhone enabled police to catch gang smuggling 40,000 phones to China<div class="feat-image">

</div><p>We hear occasional good news stories where somebody is able to use <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/guides/find-my/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Find My[/url] iPhone to track a stolen device and successfully recover it, but a new record has been set when tracking a single iPhone led to a gang suspected of smuggling up to 40,000 stolen phones to <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/guides/china/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">China[/url].</p>
<p>The iPhone was tracked to an airport warehouse where it was found in a box with 894 other phones, leading to the arrest of 18 suspects and more than 2,000 recovered phones …</p>
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Find My iPhone enabled police to catch gang smuggling 40,000 phones to China