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You can try waiting any time and then you need to insert your personal one where there will be Internet and that it will be suitable if the phone is locked to the operator AT&T or Verizon or another that can work with the phone

Ask Siri ‘Whose phone is this?’

Can you plug it into a Mac at home or take it to an Apple Store? The serial numbers will be attached to the owner.

When I found a phone , I restarted it and saw the service provider. So I just bought it to them. I’m sure they figured it out from there.

Send it to buyback they will give you a few bucks for it

Can you press and hold volume up and side button where they have any emergency contacts set up?

That's my phone! Give it back

If you have an Apple Store close by, you can take it to them.

Whenever I find a stray iPhone (which I’ve found a few), I just ask Siri to call mom. Let someone know I found the phone and I’m leaving it at this or that lost and found. So far I haven’t come across one that didn’t have mom saved in their contacts

Hold the lock button and when siri pops up say call mom, dad, husband, or wife. One of those will almost always work.

Look for the imei in the sim tray and go from there

Leave it on and charged do the find my phone feature works. Take it to an iPhone/ phone store if you don’t want them finding their way to your front door 💁

Ugh. I lost my iPhone 12pro someone pickpocketed in Vegas and it was last seen in LA. I wish this was mine ):

Check medical id by pressing volume up and power button

If it comes up SOS, they've already written it off

If there's no improvement in the situation and it's just been a paperweight for some time you could possibly sell it for parts, as a last resort. That's if the owner has become impossible to find.

Or wait for someone to call you and answer them enquiring about the owner

If there’s an Apple Store nearby just give it to them. They may be able to locate the owner. At the very least I believe they have software to get into the device.

These are weird comments.

The only correct answer in this scenario is to see which Carrier is listed on the SIM Card, and take it to the nearest local store. They can look up the account owner’s information there.

If there is no Carrier Listed on the SIM, take it to the nearest Apple Store and they will identify who bought it or have methods to get in contact with the iCloud Account Holder.

The best solution is always Apple in this case because they are the ones able to look at settings and information you won’t be able to access.

You can hand it to the closest police station from where it was found if you’re out of ideas. They lodge all found property & the owner may naturally check in with them.

I guess you could try iTunes. Try connecting the phone to your computer via a cable and see if it gives you a prompt for the Apple ID this device is connected to. You could try writing an email to that ID.

Put your sim card in. Ask siri, "call my mom, dad, or spouse". It may call their relatives and you get hold of them.

If find my iPhone is enabled, you can just leave it unlocked near another iPhone and it will be able to be tracked. https://www.macrumors.com/guide/find-my/ "When your lost device is offline but close to another device, it's able to connect to that other device over Bluetooth and relay its location. That means that your devices are more trackable than ever, and there's a better chance you can find a device that's been lost."

just leave it being charged.... hopefully the owner will put in lost mode and you will get message showing how to contact the owner.

Once I found an iPad in an airport, picked it up and called Apple to let them know I'd found it, gave them the serial number and said I'd like to return it. They said they couldn't provide the iCloud contact, I asked them to send an email to the owner letting them know I'd like to return it, they said that wouldn't be possible either. I would have liked to have solved it because from the case and the wallpaper it looked like it belonged to a child.

Take it to the nearest Apple Store please. Thank you!

Ask siri “who’s phone is this?”

That’s easy find some another iPhone someone that you know and then you can show that you found that phone. It will find out who it is and notify them by their email or their phone number or their emergency contacts. I’m sure they know where their phone is by now because you do all of this inside of the app called Finder

You can try posting on facebook. In those city groups.

Updateme!