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London police say Apple doesn’t care about iPhones being stolen

Apple and London’s Metropolitan Police are blaming each other for a failure to cut the number of iPhone thefts in the UK capital.

Apple has extended Find My to help you locate third-party devices too
Find My has been used to track stolen iPhones across the world

There have been successes in fighting thefts of iPhones, including the recent use of Find My to smash a major smartphone theft ring. But the Met police have blamed Apple before, and it isn’t stopping.

According to The Telegraph, the Met says that Apple has full access to its National Mobile Phone Register (NMPR), a database of stolen devices. It’s claimed that Apple uses this access daily, but not for its intended purpose.

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