Many stolen iPhones from all over the world have been tracked to one single building

If you've ever had an iPhone stolen then it seems as if there's a high likelihood it could be in a building alongside thousands of other Apple devices from across the world.

Unfortunately, phone thieves have become far too common in recent years, and if you're not too careful when walking late at night, you could easily have it snatched straight from your hands, as one parkour pro proved when he nabbed £3,500 worth of phones in just a few minutes in Manchester.

London has even been named the 'phone snatching capital of Europe' - at least we're winning at something - so it's clear that it's become a massive problem in the UK.

Phone snatching has become all too common (Getty Stock)

While tech experts have given some fantastic advice about how to protect your phone in just five seconds to stop thieves from accessing it when it's locked, not everybody is clued up on cyber security, so it feels pretty unlikely that you'll ever see it again once it's gone, especially given where most of them seem to end up.

As you'll know from the recent trade war between Donald Trump and China, which threatened to blow up the prices of iPhones in the US, the vast majority of the Apple devices are produced in the Asian country.

So, the good news is that if you have had one stolen, it might at least return home, as according to the Financial Times a lot of them can be found in what is known as 'the stolen iPhone building' in Shenzhen, China.

One victim whose iPhone 15 Pro was snatched from his hands in the street was able to track its 6,000-mile journey to Shenzhen, to a particular building which is known as a place where you can get your phone repaired or upgraded.

Even if your phone is locked, it's still worth something to thieves (Getty Stock)

If you're the sentimental type, at least you can take solace in the fact that your iPhone is not alone after being stolen, it has simply been reunited with many of its iPhone friends from across the world.

After tracking his phone going on an adventure worth of Bilbo Baggins, the victim revealed that he even received a threatening blackmail message, after he put his iPhone in the 'lost or stolen mode.'

The message read: "Your old iphone is recycled by us, we are just recycling merchants, we are not the ones who steal your phone, if you don’t remove it, your old phone motherboard will be sold to other customers, maybe they will hack your phone or steal your credit card, or contact your family, so we recommend you remove it as soon as possible so we can restore the factory Settings and erase all data."

While this is a bluff, there are plenty of people out there who would fall for a scam such as this one, so it's worth noting that there's no way of stealing personal data from a locked phone.