Find My iPad comes to MobileMe
Find My iPhone, a long-standing feature on MobileMe that allows you to remotely locate a misplaced iPhone via MobileMe's web interface, has been extended to the iPad. Find My iPad has the same features as Find My iPhone, including playing the little sonar sound effect with an onscreen message (in case your iPad falls behind the couch or something). Find My iPad also includes the same Remote Wipe feature as Find My iPhone -- so if your iPad is irretrievably lost, you can remotely vaporize all the data on it, thus ensuring that thieves don't get access to your contacts, credit card info, or embarrassing lolcat pictures in addition to your iPad.Apple notes that "The Find My iPad feature works best if your iPad includes both Wi-Fi and 3G, but it will also find your Wi-Fi-only iPad when it's connected to a wireless network." Translation: Find My iPad probably isn't going to work very well at all for the Wi-Fi-only models. It'll probably give you a very general idea of your iPad's location on Find My iPad's map, but without GPS capabilities, the Wi-Fi-only iPad will have nowhere near the specificity of the 3G-enabled iPad or iPhone.
Naturally, just like Find My iPhone, Find My iPad requires a $99/year subscription to MobileMe -- though if you're already using the service for your iPhone and/or Macs, there's no extra charge for the new iPad-specific services.
[Via Ars Technica]
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How do you enable this on your iPad in the first damned place?
June 17 2010 at 10:53 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI think one of the issues is that even with the GPS service working, there has to be connectivity via WiFi or 3G to be able to query the iPad.
May 10 2010 at 4:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySo wil this be available for "find my MacBook" as well? I had one stolen a couple of years ago and it would have been handy to have been notified if it had joined a wireless network, and then to be able to put a subtle little message on the screen.
Not sure why this wouldn't be possible - please Apple? Too late for me now but certainly a handy feature, particularly if it were known about. Would make MacBooks less "stealable"
Last time I checked, messages and alerts didn't take up a huge portion of my Mac's screen either. Just enough for me to be able to read it.
Full screen alerts are great for things like BSODs and kernel panics. For everything else? Take up enough space for any person with reasonably good vision to be able to read the alert message, and leave it at that. Anything more than that is both gratuitous and annoying.
Why are you here? I thought you have no use for the ipad, save the comment space for someone who has constructive or worthwhile things to say. Just go away, we will all be much happier, including yourself.
April 01 2010 at 11:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyokay, i just got the location of my ipad, and i did remotely wipe it as well.
it says it is in the UPS warehouse in Kansas City.
'll be looking forward to a full 16 gigabytes of empty space on it in about a day or 2!!!
If I try to find my iPad right now, will it tell me it is sitting in a warehouse in the back of the Apple store? or it is on a UPS truck on the way to my house?
No? Aww, man...
Does anyone know if using Find my iPad, to find a 3G connected iPad, that *didn't* have a data plan active at the time (ie. it's 3G enabled, but I hadn't bought data time for that month) if it would override that? Like emergency calls?
April 01 2010 at 7:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply... or if you could buy 3G service remotely (say, from your desktop) and have it be enabled on the iPad without any user input required on the device itself?
That way, if it's ever stolen, I could drop $15 and have it spring up on the 3G network (and find my iPad service) by itself.
Well as I commented before, it shouldn't require a data plan. For example when I took many pictures from my iphone at any country overseas it automatically located my position on earth and tagged them onto those photos. I didn't realize it until I uploaded those photos into iPhoto where they were being organized in Places
April 01 2010 at 8:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyyeah because the iPad will be easy to misplace
April 01 2010 at 7:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI think you may find it very easy to misplace it if someone removes it from your possession.
April 01 2010 at 8:51 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI've always found the 'make it beep' feature of Find My iPhone to be the most valuable part as it overrides the ringer volume/mute switch. Hopefully this will do the same...
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