I pads can be very easily be tracked as a phone, can be tracked. I believe there are actually two ways this can be done. Can an unlocked phone be tracked?

No, Apple cannot SHUT DOWN the phone indefinitely. If the iPhone was setup with Apple iTunes and using iCloud and specifically has the 'Find My iPhone' enabled then it is possible to send a command to remotely lock or erase the iPhone. However Apple will not do this for you it is your buddy who would login to their iCloud account and send the command to lock/erase the phone. Free Birthday Card Software Download.

If the iPhone has the fingerprint or pincode protection enabled then it will be very difficult for whoever has the iPhone to get at the data on the device but that is about all you can expect. Neither the carriers nor Apple have any real incentive or legal obligation to 'shutdown' or 'erase' the device. Most stolen or lost smartphones are easily reactivated by ensuring the device remains powered off, simply removing the sim card, putting in a new simcard and restarting the device on a different mobile network, the new user simple erases the phone back to factory settings and is up and running in very little time. The small consolation is that the previous owners data is not accessible to them unless they are a fairly serious and malicious hacker.

Alright, it is true that if the Iphone is shut down then it is still not locked. On the other hand if you have set passcode on your device it cannot be reset without the password. Cimco Edit Free Download Software on this page.