Death button can stop mobile thieves – Aftonbladet

Death button can stop mobile thieves – Aftonbladet

Death button can stop mobile thefts.

This function allows your phone to be worthless to the thief.

Mobile phone theft is dramatically reduced in the global cities of San Francisco, New York and London. The reason: the death button.

Apple and Samsung have in their later models installed a feature that allows the phone to be made unusable in case of loss, according to IDG.

Have been reduced by up to 40%

There, the thefts have decreased by between 16 and 40 percent.

– The huge reduction in the smartphone thefts that occurred after the death button came on the market, proved that our approach makes people safer in our cities and around the world, says Eric Schneiderman, Attorney General of the State of New York, for the IDG.

In California, it is half a year back teams that new phones should have this feature.

This function is also available in Sweden. On the iPhone called the “activation lock” and on Samsung phones found death button under the “Find My Mobile”, says IDG.