Have you lost your iPhone or are you worried it was stolen?
For most cell phone owners unless you were proactive and installed tracking software on the phone prior to it going MIA, you were pretty much SOL (apparently, it’s use as many acronyms as possible day – LOL – okay, I’m done, promise).
However, since you have an iPhone, you’re different and there is a solution available to you to track a stolen iPhone. Apple just added the “Find My iPhone” App to the App Store.
So let’s talk about how it works and what it costs.
The “Find my iPhone” App is an app you install on a friend’s iPhone or iPod Touch (since obviously, you don’t have yours to install it on) – if you’re without friends, go visit Starbucks or any upscale bar – you’ll find plenty of iPhones there and maybe you can beg and plead them to let you use their phone to find yours.
Anyway, the App is free to download, but it does require a MobileMe membership which is $99/yr (60 day free trial available if you’re planning on losing your iPhone in the next 60 days) – kind of steep if that’s all you plan on using your membership for, but MobileMe actualy does a bunch of things.
Once the app is installed, you can remotely login to you phone, track it to find out where it is, and should it become clear you’re not likely to get it back, remotely wipe all the data. To be able to remotely wipe data is a big deal as far as I’m concerned since I have a ton of personal information on my phone.
So there you have it, if you’ve lost your iPhone and don’t have any tracking software already installed, there’s still hope (as long as you have a MobileMe membership).
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