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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 ...

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 ...

iPhone turns Pittsburgh man into Columbo, helps cops catch robbers

by Mel Martin (Aug 30th, 2009)

The MobileMe Find my iPhone service certainly paid off for a Pittsburgh area man. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that police said the man was robbed at gunpoint in Shadyside (a neigborhood on the east side of Pittsburgh, home to an Apple Store) by two men who asked for his credit cards and the ...

Find My iPhone location tracking enables all-city chase

by Michael Rose (Jun 22nd, 2009)

We're not 100% convinced of the safety of his approach, but Kevin Miller's determination to recover his lost iPhone -- combined with the power of MobileMe's new Find My iPhone feature -- led him on a wild chase across Chicago, which he visited while he was attending a LEGO convention in nearby ...

3.0 update brings Street View, 'Find' functionality to iPod touch

by Robert Palmer (Jun 18th, 2009)

iPod touch users are finally getting a taste of what iPhone users have had since iPhone OS 2.2: Google Street View. iPhone 3.0 Software Update for iPod touch includes an update to the Maps application that enables Google Street View, and it works just like it does on the iPhone. Additionally, the ...

Find My iPhone: If only I could find myself so easily ...

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jun 17th, 2009)

Mel gave you the instructions for how to set it up... but dear reader, we're going to go in-depth into the features of using MobileMe's Find My iPhone to see how well it works in locating and securing your phone from a remote location -- including performing a voluntary wipe. Locating where your ...