I got my iPhone 14 stolen in June this year and I put it on lost mode an hour after, but the thieves had already turned it off at that point so lost mode has been pending ever since. I did remove my Apple Pay from the phone immediately so I think that’s fine. I never erased or removed the device from my Apple ID since I wanted to see if it did resurface at some point, and to also spite who stole my phone so that it was only useful for parts. Since it’s been about 5 months and it’s never resurfaced, I figured it’s been long parted out by now.
Today, I got a notification from FindMy that my phone is now in Shen Zhen, China lmao but lost mode is still pending. I thought if it connected to the point where my FindMy gave me a notification, lost mode should’ve activated? I know this is reddit so I’ll take it with a grain of salt but should I be paranoid that they somehow got into my phone? Or it only came on so briefly that lost mode wasn’t able to activate?