Find Stolen Phone
If theft is likely, protect accounts and evidence before following a location lead. Use official tools and share the IMEI with the appropriate organizations.
Protect the device and your accounts
- Open Apple Find My or Google Find Hub from a trusted device and mark the phone as lost when available.
- Protect primary email, banking, cloud, and social accounts from a trusted device.
- Ask the carrier to secure the SIM and explain its stolen-device procedure.
- Do not remove the missing device from its account until you understand how that affects location and activation-lock features.
Before erasing or removing the device
Read Apple's missing iPhone guidance: erasure is irreversible, and removing a missing iPhone from Find My removes Activation Lock. Keep it in Find My even after remote erasure. If making a theft-and-loss claim, follow the insurer's instructions before changing account associations.
For Android, Google's Find Hub guide explains that factory reset deletes device data and ends its availability in Find Hub. Lock and erase controls depend on power, connection and account settings; choose erasure only after weighing data exposure against further recovery attempts.
Preserve evidence before it disappears
Save the IMEI, serial number, receipt, last known location, account alerts, messages, and any marketplace listing. Keep a chronological note and retain platform case numbers.
For a private report, prepare: model and color; each IMEI and serial number; date, time and place last seen; purchase evidence; screenshots with timestamps; and the case reference from earlier reports. Give these details directly to the carrier, insurer or police rather than posting them publicly.
Do not travel to a suspicious location or arrange a private confrontation. Give credible evidence to police or the relevant platform according to local procedures.
Use the IMEI in reports
Check the community database or add an IMEI record for later searchers, then provide the identifier and proof of ownership to the carrier, insurer, marketplace, or police as appropriate. This site does not access official blacklists or physical location data.
Keep expectations realistic
An IMEI alone does not give a public website access to GPS, Wi-Fi, mobile-network, satellite, carrier, or police location. Avoid anyone requesting payment or account credentials for an instant IMEI map.
If the phone may simply be misplaced, use the lost phone checklist. For subscriber-number leads, review the phone-number tracking limits.
Check an IMEI in our community database
Enter a 15-digit IMEI to look for a matching community-submitted record. This lookup does not provide a phone's live location.