Sell Components
Sure, sometimes thieves can find someone to sell an iPhone to for straight cash. But these days, most people know that a stolen iPhone is basically a brick with a tracker inside of it, and they aren’t eager to act as a fence. So what thieves often do instead is break your iPhone apart and try to sell usable components. There are shady iPhone repair services that will pay cash for these extra parts, no questions asked. Unfortunately, if your iPhone vanishes permanently, this may be what happened in the end.