Find my iPhone: How to set it up

apparently "Location Services" has to be turned on, and left on, since one can't anticipate when the feature will be needed. So my question: How does "Location Services" affect battery life? Thanks.

find my iphone does not display the location map on chrome.
I tried various combination of reset, turn find my iphone on/off.
Finally it turned out it was my Chrome browser that was the culprit.
Firefox worked fine.

This is a great feature, but you cant access it from the iphone browser. Say you loose your phone in a bar, your friend has an iphone but you cannot log onto you mobile me account to find it... really annoying.

Tested, and it works perfectly.

It's stupid as hell though that it can be turned off by the thief instantly. It should require entering the iPhone's password to change that setting. It would be no burden to the legitimate user, but would prevent a thief from disabling the system in a couple seconds.

As it stands, it's very handy for finding a lost phone, but any thief who knows what they're doing will have it off before the user can do anything. Even if your phone was stolen while you were sitting at your computer and logged into MobileMe, it would still take less time to go into settings and disable the feature than to perform a wipe, and forget about tracking. Last known location will be about 5 steps from where it was stolen!

I'm thrilled with this new feature. Losing the phone pales in comparison to all my private stuff floating around out there.

But...

Hours to remote wipe? What happens if it's aborted a minute into it?

Also, any would-be thief that knows about this feature could just turn it off or remove the MobileMe account. That's kinda lame.

If you have multiple iPhones synced to the same MobileMe account, as long as you have the Find My iPhone featue turned on for all the phones they will all show up in the MobileMe account settings pane. They are separated; you can locate each individual phone on a map, & you have an option to send a message to any individual phone or wipe data from an individual phone. Both my phone & my wife's phone sync to the same account & both are showing up just fine.

i tested remote wipe with the phone off, when i turned the phone on it worked for about 5 minutes, then it began the wipe. it did in fact take about 3 hours to complete.

I have two iPhone's. One for my business be one for personal use. Both have MobileMes find my iphone turned on, but both sync up with the same MobileMe acct. If I lose my work phone and want to wipe it will it wipe both my phones?

Tested and worked to perfection...Very Cool bonus, since this was not a feature when I decided to buy the service, on my 18 month old MobileMe account.

For what it is worth, I beleive I have documented "Find My iPhone" working on iPhone OS 2.2.1, and that my iPhone was sending my location data to Apple prior to the OS 3.0 update. (and without my knowledge)

http://tinyurl.com/lskqte