Apple final week rolled out a leading refurbish for its mobile working network iOS 4, and amid the new features is a nifty giveaway tool: Find My iPhone.
As its name suggests, Find My iPhone is a tracking underline to fix up a omitted iPhone 4, iPad or fourth-generation iPod Touch. (Only the ultimate models obtain the giveaway feature.) If you've forsaken your iDevice in a cab, or if someone's stolen it, you can bound on a P.C. to follow the GPS coordinates of the iPhone on a Google chart (see above).
Or, if you're only forgetful similar to me and you displace your iPhone as frequently as you remove your keys, you can use your P.C. to trigger a beeping sound to help you find it. It should be deafening sufficient to listen to from beneath a cot cushion. (You'll never have to bug a buddy to call your phone again.)
If you do truly regard your iPhone is in the hands of a thief, you can use Find My iPhone to remotely close the device or clean the data. Do note, however, that if you clean the device, you won't be able to follow it any more (hap tip to @shacker for infectious that). Also, a intelligent thug could only remove the SIM card, and you wouldn't be able to follow or clean the phone.
Of the many new features in iOS 4.2.1, we found this a to be a of the sweetest bonuses. Find My iPhone originally was only existing as segment of a MobileMe subscription, that expenses $100 per year. Making it giveaway was a good pierce on Apple's part: An iPhone can potentially enclose a value trove of personal information, so losing a is a large deal.
You must be trigger Find My iPhone before you remove your phone, so do it now. Since the stairs to spin this utilitarian underline on aren't right away obvious, here's how to do it:
1. Make certain you have the ultimate iOS refurbish (iOS 4.2.1) installed. Plug in your iPhone and click "Check for updates" in iTunes to obtain the software.
2. With iOS 4.2.1 installed, daub the Settings app on your iPhone. Then daub "Mail, Contacts, Calendars" and "Add Account." Then select MobileMe.
3. In the MobileMe account menu, come in your iTunes or Apple authorization and cue (i.e., the login you use to purchase iTunes media on the iPhone).
4. The "Find My iPhone" choice should appear. Slide it to "ON" to trigger it."
And you're done! From here on, you can bound on a P.C. and come in www.me.com in a web browser. Then come in the same login qualifications you used to record for Find My iPhone, and you'll right away obtain a GPS getting more information of the phone, along with a elementary menu of buttons permitting you to lock, wipe, or send a summary or sound to the iPhone.
Update: Corrected an blunder that settled MobileMe expenses $10 per month. In actuality, it expenses $100 per year.
See Also:
Apple iOS 4.2 Arrives, Makes Find My iPhone Free
Apple's ‘Find my iPhone' App Almost Impossible to Use
IPhone and iPad Lost in the Trash, Found With MobileMe
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