whodiini

Wesley Hilliard said:

whodiini said:

With a screen time passcode to lock settings, one needs to remove the screen time passcode, then go to content and privacy restrictions to allow for passcode changes. Then the face ID and passcode will show up in settings and you can now turn on Stolen Device Protection.  Then if you want the added security, turn back off passcode changes and set your screen time passcode.  I have yet to figure out if having the screen time passcode and the Stolen Device Protection is redundant now.

Screen Time passcode can be reset if you know the iPhone passcode, so it doesn't really do anything except obfuscate the setting by one step. I think you're making things harder for yourself.

No it cannot.  There is a separate passcode to reset screen time which makes it more secure.  That is the whole purpose - one passcode to enter into your phone, another separate passcode to reset important settings such as the phone passcode, turn off find my iphone, ....

With a screen time passcode to lock settings, one needs to remove the screen time passcode, then go to content and privacy restrictions to allow for passcode changes. Then the face ID and passcode will show up in settings and you can now turn on Stolen Device Protection.  Then if you want the added security, turn back off passcode changes and set your screen time passcode.  I have yet to figure out if having the screen time passcode and the Stolen Device Protection is redundant now.

I just updated my ipad 11 pro to ios 17.3.  Went to face ID and passcode, and there was not any Stolen Device Protection setting anywhere.  Must be just for iphones, so I updated my iphone 13 pro to ios 17.3.  Went to settings and there is no face ID and passcode.  I do have a screen time passcode to lock settings.  This is not as easy as the article suggests.

As of 10:47 Pactific time, these updates are not available.  However, iOS 17.0.1 is

so i need to buy an iphone 14 outside the US to be able to use it traveling outside the US?