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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...