Thank you find my iphone APP!

[smoothpops]

When you get your phone back, download an app called Prey. It's like find my phone on steroids and you can use it to track your laptops if that ever gets stolen. Oh and did i mention it's free?

[Pontine]

Never had to use this feature when I had my iPhone, hopefully I never have to use this feature on my S4 when google releases their version.

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by burn_this_city

No kidding, he's clearly half black.

I thought he was Chinese?

[Bertuzzied]

Originally Posted by topfiverecords

I thought he was Chinese?

I never realized in Iginla's record of middle names there was a Ming in there.

Jarome Arthur-Leigh Ming Adekunle Tig Junior Elvis Iginla

[qiang]

Originally Posted by bluck

I use that app all the time it's awesome. Let us know how it all works out when ya confront her with her dad. O and thanks for my new sig qiang!

PS. I'm still laughing my ass off at that comment haha

wondering whats so funny...

[Zevo]

Why are people entertaining this fool? He obviously would know what an avatar is....what's next, asking how topfiverecords won such a great trophy? Jesus I can't believe this is allowed to go on.

[Cole436]

So this is what it's like when a message board jumps the shark.

[worth]

Pure bliss, I recommend everyone try it.

[qiang]

Originally Posted by worth

Pure bliss, I recommend everyone try it.

so weird...

[Lucifer]

Originally Posted by Bertuzzied

I never realized in Iginla's record of middle names there was a Ming in there.

Jarome Arthur-Leigh Ming Adekunle Tig Junior Elvis Iginla

I think he needs a few more middle names, lol.

[puckluck2]

Confronted the dad today in a non-threatening matter. Pretty much told him I traced my phone to a property and his daughter's car was there. Told him I didn't want to accuse her of stealing and maybe she just took it by accident (Flat out lie as I asked her if she had seen it), but I didn't want to be confrontational. He called her in front of me and she asks him what kind of phone and what color...even though I told her that information yesterday but she said "oh I must have mistaken it for my phone" even though her iphone has stickers all over it but whatever I got my phone back and that's all that matters.

I just feel bad for her dad as he's a great guy and he was totally embarrassed.

[qiang]

Originally Posted by puckluck2

Confronted the dad today in a non-threatening matter. Pretty much told him I traced my phone to a property and his daughter's car was there. Told him I didn't want to accuse her of stealing and maybe she just took it by accident (Flat out lie as I asked her if she had seen it), but I didn't want to be confrontational. He called her in front of me and she asks him what kind of phone and what color...even though I told her that information yesterday but she said "oh I must have mistaken it for my phone" even though her iphone has stickers all over it but whatever I got my phone back and that's all that matters.

I just feel bad for her dad as he's a great guy and he was totally embarrassed.

confrontational happy ending.

[JohnnyB]

Sounds like a nice guy, and like you both handled it well.

[puckluck2]

Originally Posted by qiang

confrontational happy ending.

Xiu su ann oy jing.

[browna]

Originally Posted by puckluck2

You so molesto

Fixed.

[Bend it like Bourgeois]

Originally Posted by Textcritic

It works awesome. Between my wife's iPhone and the kids's iPods, we have used it several times now to locate lost devices. The last time my wife had left her phone in the local cinema. We called the theatre once we located it using the app, they found it within minutes, and my wife was able to pick it up the following morning.

I'm dropping one of these in my wallet because I leave it everywhere.

http://www.thetileapp.com

[To Be Quite Honest]

So, a friend who is not technical and old lost his iPhone. I don't have an I phone. How do you find your apple ID to trace said phone?

[Devils'Advocate]

Did he have "Find my iPhone" enabled?

If he did he can go to icloud.com, log in with the apple ID associated with the phone, and you can find it through the web interface and even make it play a sound via the web interface.

A friend of mine in Toronto was worried that he left his iPhone at the cottage, a 3 hour trip out of town. He had looked all around the house... even tried calling it, but remembered he had left it on vibrate mode. He looked it up on my iPad and played the sound.. it had fallen out of his pocket and between the seat cushions on his sofa. Saved him from driving all the way to the cottage and getting frustrated that it wasn't there....

[To Be Quite Honest]

Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate

Did he have "Find my iPhone" enabled?

If he did he can go to icloud.com, log in with the apple ID associated with the phone, and you can find it through the web interface and even make it play a sound via the web interface.

A friend of mine in Toronto was worried that he left his iPhone at the cottage, a 3 hour trip out of town. He had looked all around the house... even tried calling it, but remembered he had left it on vibrate mode. He looked it up on my iPad and played the sound.. it had fallen out of his pocket and between the seat cushions on his sofa. Saved him from driving all the way to the cottage and getting frustrated that it wasn't there....

Do you have to log in with an apple ID when you first activate an iPhone?

[blankall]

This reminds me of a story that happened to my friend with a much less happy ending.

He leaves his IPhone in a cab or possibly a bar. He phones it the next day. A woman answers and says she'll return the phone to him, but only if he re-imburses her $200 for the money she paid to acquire it. My friend agrees as the cost of a new phone is far in excess of that.

He meets this woman in downtown Vancouver, who turns out to be a crackhead. Somehow during this exchange she manages to convince him to give her the money, while she goes back to her place and grabs the phone. She takes the money and never returns.

He uses the find my phone App, and, sure enough, the phone is located in a local crack tower. The issue is that the App can't determine exactly which apartment it's in. My friend phones the police, who are for whatever reason, extremely enthusiastic about helping him retrieve this phone from a crackhouse. The police enter the building and then proceed to pull out random crackheads and thrown them into a paddy wagon. Apparently, the lost phone gives them a valid reason to be in the building itself and arrest anyone they see doing illegal activty in the hallway.

After pulling a half a dozen crackheads out of the building, the police tell him that there is no way to get the phone back, as they cannot locate it to a specific apartment.

My friend uses the App again the next day. The Phone has now been moved to Surrey. My friend drives out to central Surrey, and, once again, the phone is located in a relatively large apartment building. He phones the cops again. They proceed to do the same thing and, once again, inform him they cannot get the phone without a more specific location.

The next day, he decides to cut his losses. Reports the phone stolen, has the data deleted, and buys a new phone.