Find my iphone Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Find My iPhone leads to a late-night chase in Tel Aviv

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 21st, 2011)

Tel Aviv resident Ori Goshen realized the benefit of Find My iPhone when an unexpected late-night car ride left him without his iPhone. Goshen hopped into a car with two strangers and gave them directions, using his iPhone, in exchange for a ride closer to his apartment. (Bad decision? Quite ...

Find my iPad turns up English rugby legend's missing tablet

by Dave Caolo (Feb 10th, 2011)

Former England rugby captain Will Carling has been reunited with his stolen iPad after tracking it down with Apple's free Find My iPhone app. The best part is that he live-tweeted his hunt for the thief. Carling noticed his iPad was missing after leaving it on a train. He then used Find My iPhone ...

A new use for Find My iPhone: Popping the question, Apple style

by Kelly Guimont (Dec 30th, 2010)

If you're a regular TUAW reader, you know we do a live show on Sunday evenings called the Talkcast. If you are a regular listener to the Talkcast, you know that I almost always give a shout out to our regular listeners, and I have been known to get up on a soapbox about how important our community ...

Police hunt down stolen iPhone in chopper

by Kelly Hodgkins (Dec 16th, 2010)

Police in Australia take iPhone theft seriously; so seriously, they will not hesitate to employ the use of a helicopter to nab a thief who has made off with one of Apple's prized mobile devices. The story begins in a hospital in Heidelberg, Australia where an iPhone was stolen from an unsuspecting ...

Find My iPhone no longer needs automatic mail delivery to be enabled

by TJ Luoma (Dec 13th, 2010)

Apple has recently eliminated one of the configuration requirements and potential points of failure for Find My iPhone (FMI) on your iOS device. About a year ago we reported that there were three settings that you had to have enabled in order for FMI to work: 1. Under Settings > Mail, Contacts, ...

MobileMe finds a missing iPad but it's not a happy ending

by Mel Martin (Nov 9th, 2010)

Find My iPhone/iPad is one terrific benefit of MobileMe. In fact, to me, it is the best part of the service. For an Indiana man, the ability to find a missing iPad worked as it should, but too late to do much good. Here's the depressing story. One of our readers was moving stuff into his car with ...

Found Footage: Homemade stratospheric capsule uses iPhone GPS

by Matt Tinsley (Oct 20th, 2010)

In the midst of all the excitement and hype surrounding today's announcements, we thought we'd share this popular and heart-warming tale of a father and son believing in their dreams and reaching for them. Seven-year-old Max Geissbuhler and his dad, Luke Geissbuhler, dreamed of visiting space. ...

MobileMe iDisk app and Find My iPhone updated with bug fixes

by Mel Martin (Sep 7th, 2010)

If you've been having problems with the Apple MobileMe iDisk app, or even if you haven't noticed anything weird, it's a good idea to get the latest update. The newest version (1.21) fixes a problem opening Keynote files in some circumstances on the iPad. Rotated images now show in the correct ...

Apple releases Find my iPhone app

by Dave Caolo (Jun 18th, 2010)

Apple has released a Find my iPhone app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch today, bringing the MobileMe service to the three devices (it only tracks the iPhone and iPad, of course). If your iPhone or iPad goes missing, you can install the app on any other iPhone, iPad or iPod touch and log in with ...

Enter Gmail contact syncing and DropBox; exit MobileMe?

by Lauren Hirsch (Jun 15th, 2010)

Well, that's that. I have whittled MobileMe down to two useful functions: Find My iPhone and Remote Wipe. And yes, I use one of those functions quite often, say, when my husband is off on some 80 mile jaunt on his bicycle. I have, thankfully, yet to require the services of the other one. But the ...

Find My iPad comes to MobileMe

by Chris Rawson (Apr 1st, 2010)

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 ...

Find my iPhone rescues two phones at Busch Gardens

by Mel Martin (Feb 25th, 2010)

It was like something out of CSI. The St. Petersburg Times is reporting that the snatched iPhones incident began when a mom and her stepdaughter were getting aboard the SheiKra roller coaster at Busch Gardens in Tampa, Florida. The theme park provides unlocked storage bins for people to put things ...

Find My iPhone now works in Mobile Safari

by Chris Rawson (Feb 19th, 2010)

Apple's MobileMe site at me.com used to be completely useless on the iPhone or iPod touch in Mobile Safari -- you'd get a splash page telling you to set up your contacts, calendars, and mail accounts, but that was about it. No webmail access, no direct access to galleries, iDisk, or even Find My ...

Ask TUAW: Mac mini HTPC, Find My iPhone with another iPhone, eliminate duplicate photos, and more

by Mat Lu (Dec 24th, 2009)

Welcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we've got questions about Mac minis running as HTPCs, eliminating duplicate photos, using an iPhone to access MobileMe's FInd My iPhone feature (for another iPhone), automatically mounting a network disk, and more. As ...

Find My iPhone: Questions, answers, and suggestions

by TJ Luoma (Oct 21st, 2009)

Mobile Me's Find My iPhone is a wonderful (relatively) new feature which can help track down your iPhone if it is lost or stolen, but it is not foolproof, and it must be configured before you need it. Q: "Is it true that Find My iPhone does not work if you have 3G turned off or lose your iPhone ...