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NYPD meets FMI: Cop nabs iPhone thief in NYC

by Dave Caolo (Jan 27th, 2012)

Don't walk past police with a stolen iPhone in your boot. According to the New York Times, a quick-thinking police officer and Apple's Find My iPhone managed to retrieve a woman's stolen iPhone. The woman was in a handbag store in Manhattan when a thief allegedly held her up at gunpoint and took ...

TUAW Best of 2011: Vote for the best iPhone utility app

by Steven Sande (Dec 24th, 2011)

The nominations are in, and the poll is ready to go! The TUAW Best of 2011 awards are all about you -- the readers -- and what you think is the cream of the crop of Apple or third-party products and software. To vote, select one entry from the top nominations made by readers. We'll be announcing ...

Daily Update for December 12, 2011

by Steven Sande (Dec 12th, 2011)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

Home invasion suspects caught with iPhone's help

by Kelly Hodgkins (Dec 12th, 2011)

A Chicago thief and his accomplice may regret stealing an iPhone during a series of home invasions. In one robbery, the suspect took an iPhone after he pistol-whipped a woman and two men and then forced them into a bathroom. The suspect was apprehended after police used a GPS app to locate the ...

One family, two Find My iPhone adventures

by Chris Rawson (Sep 7th, 2011)

According to the Sydney Morning Herald, an Australian family has recently gone through not one, but two adventures related to stolen iPhones. While on holiday at a Hilton in Fiji, the family's mother, Fiona Donohoe, had her iPhone ripped off by a hotel concierge. In a move worthy of a featured ...

Find My iPhone helps find Chilean plane crash site

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 7th, 2011)

We've seen many stories of iOS owners using Find My iPhone to retrieve a lost or stolen device. But this may be the first time, the technology was used to help find a missing airplane. Last week, a military airplane disappeared off Chile's Pacific coast and all 21 people aboard were killed ...

Apple updates Find My iPhone app

by Michael Grothaus (Aug 8th, 2011)

Apple has pushed out a minor update to the Find My iPhone app. The app allows users to track their iOS devices right from their iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. Today's update doesn't bring any major changes to the app -- just "stability improvements" -- but it does seem to find devices quicker ...

iPhone survives 13,500 foot fall from skydiver's pocket

by Chris Rawson (Jul 23rd, 2011)

A few months ago we told you about an iPhone that survived a 1000-foot fall unscathed. CNN reports that another skydiver's iPhone recently flew out of his pocket during a dive and made an uncontrolled descent to Earth -- 13,500 feet below. Skydiver Jarrod McKinney's iPhone wasn't quite as ...

Finding an iPhone the old-fashioned way

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 14th, 2011)

Ben Patterson and his wife learned a hard lesson on using Find My iPhone after traveling to Manhattan's East Village to visit a friend. After a lovely evening, they hopped from one cab to another as they traveled back to Brooklyn. His wife froze with fear when she realized her iPhone was ...

Apple patent reveals possible Find My iPhone improvements

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 16th, 2011)

Apple filed a patent application detailing new security features that could potentially make their way into the Find My iPhone service. These new features would greatly expand the control each user has over his or her missing iPhone and include: The ability to let users selectively protect ...

Find My Mac kicks off with Lion

by Michael Grothaus (Jun 8th, 2011)

In the latest Developer Preview of Lion, Apple has activated the new Find My Mac feature. Like Find My iPhone, Find My Mac allows users to locate their Macs from any web browser or iOS device. As noted by 9to5 Mac, the Find My Mac setup is available through the Mail, Contacts and Calendars ...

Apple updates Find My iPhone app with offline device support

by Michael Grothaus (Jun 6th, 2011)

Among all the hoopla about iCloud and iOS 5 today, Apple has also quietly updated its Find My iPhone iOS app. Version 1.2 adds features for devices that are offline. Now when a user is unable to locate a device because it is offline, that user will receive an email if the device comes online and ...

Umpire strikes out as Find My iPhone goes horribly wrong

by Michael Rose (May 26th, 2011)

Find My iPhone: helpful utility or breeder of social discord? You be the judge... or, in this case, the umpire. In New Jersey, youth baseball umpire Carl Ippolito lost track of his iPhone and became convinced it had been stolen out of his car, reports the Hunterdon County Democrat. Ippolito ...

Find My iPhone app thwarts another thief

by Dave Caolo (Mar 24th, 2011)

It's becoming a familiar story: a ne'er-do-well miscreant attempts to steal an iPhone, only to be thwarted by Apple's free Find My iPhone app. Today's tale comes from Manchester, England. James Bird is an aerospace engineering student at Manchester University. As he recounts, when his iPhone was ...

iPhone 4 survives 1,000 foot fall from Air Force plane

by Dave Caolo (Mar 23rd, 2011)

Late last night, we received an email from U.S. Air Force Combat Controller Ron Walker, who wrote to tell us an incredible story about his iPhone 4 and a minor workplace mishap. Staff Sergeant Walker's duties as a jump master require him to ensure that his aircraft is in the proper location ...