Find My iPhone now works in Mobile Safari

If I lost my iPhone, the closest smartphone around me would be BBs and Droids. It'd be more useful if the site was compatible with those... just saying.

Am I the only person that doesn't give a frack about this in comparison to the GAPING functionality hole of NOT being able to access your mobile me contacts in mobile safari?

Imagine I've lost my iPhone (something I've done more times than I'd care to admit — let's just say I'm on iPhone #6)... friend X I'm with has his. I need to call friend Y, who friend X does not know. Suddenly, Mobile Me is nothing more than another alliteration.

I've been a Mac user all my life. I miss the days of MacAddict and MacUser. If I have one frustration with Apple (and obviously I don't have just one), it is this: in their quest for feature-perfection (and their choice to consistently play it safe - yes, i said it) they avoid use-perfection with the patience of an old teacher winning a long game of chess despite losing numerous key pieces. Copy and paste or a camera in the iPad are both perfect examples of this. "Planned obsolescence" looks a lot better in your (their) bank account than it sounds or feels.

Yes, I'll probably still get an iPad. Yes, it might be magical someday, if there's an app for that (of which there will be many). But I think the press' reaction to the iPad's marketing should be a warning sign to Apple execs. Apple has always been behind the curve in many areas (nobody's perfect). The last thing anyone human should ever do is call themselves magical. That's the press' job, if you're lucky.

In summary: Apple routinely misses little details like this in the quest for a simpler and easier to use system. In the big picture, they get it. But sometimes they miss the forest for the trees (or am I saying the trees for the forest?). I just want to turn my brightness down and disable 3G and push without clicking and swiping six different ways to sunday.

p.s. The best part of this UN-implementation on Mobile Me is that when you launch it, you have the opportunity (for about 5 seconds) to see the REAL mobile me interface, and you can even click on your contacts. It then redirects you back to the mobile safari page that tells you how to setup your contacts. Exactly what I didn't want to do. Oh, the irony.

If you own enough iPhones that you would get use out of Find My iPhone on an iPhone, maybe you have other issues. :D

My company published an app recently that provides a native iPhone interface to this called FindMePhone. Apple unfortunately rejected it from the App Store, as it uses unsupported methods of accessing MobileMe (cause they don't provide any!) - but it is available for jailbroken phones in both Cydia and Rock Your Phone.

See http://www.technivations.com/iphone/findmephone for details.

" ...and one of them leaves an iPhone at a pub ..." Aka: Shotgun Willies

Disabling "Find My Husbands iPhone" now.

Thanks for the tip Steve.

;-)

Does this mean I can find myself if I have my iPhone & mobile me? Elsewise, I would surely be lost....

Or try something like taptrace or iscrut for a buck.

I have needed to do this twice when one of us left without our phone. This is indeed useful.

However, the MobileMe mobile site login is terrible and it took forever, but at least I got an idea of where the other phone was.

But the interface is awful. They should make an app for this! "Phone Finder" comes to mind.

Wait wait wait.. if you're using mobile safari to find your iphone, then how are you using mobile safari to begin with? A PARADOX!

so i lost my phone, but thank god I'd be able to locate it if I had it?

woot.