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iPhone stolen and tracked...

SFStateStudent

SFStateStudent

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Aug 28, 2007
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San Francisco California, USA
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My iPhone was stolen from my table at the Strada Cafe as I went to pickup my order. Had my iPad in the car so I tracked it with Find My iPhone App and two Berkeley Police Officers. We followed the signal icon and took about twenty minutes and ten signals to my iPhone. Saw the thief take it out of his pocket to silence it and I told the cops, "that's my iPhone!" They took the iPhone and handed it to me then handcuffed the thief!!!!
 
SFStateStudent said:
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_5 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8L1 Safari/6533.18.5)

My iPhone was stolen from my table at the Strada Cafe as I went to pickup my order. Had my iPad in the car so I tracked it with Find My iPhone App and two Berkeley Police Officers. We followed the signal icon and took about twenty minutes and ten signals to my iPhone. Saw the thief take it out of his pocket to silence it and I told the cops, "that's my iPhone!" They took the iPhone and handed it to me then handcuffed the thief!!!!
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That's awesome! Find My iPhone is one of the best apps made for the iPhone, security wise.
 
Had my MacBook Pro bolted down to the table and my iPhone on the other side of the MBP, and it was plugged into the MBP, so the guy definitely had to reach across my table to get to it. You should have seen the look on his face when the cops asked him "do you happen to have an iPhone that doesn't belong to you?" His jaw hit the ground and he started to stutter and shake. He stopped shaking when the HANDCUFFS went on his wrists. :cool::cool::cool:
 
Nice, that's the reason I have it installed on my iphone and dont even use a passcode lock any more.
If its locked the thief wont be able to do anything with it and will probably turn it off and go home and restore it.
If he can get in and play around with apps, youtube, browse the net and other stuff then I can track it and get it back.
I dont know, just my way of thought I guess cause most criminals are not that bright.
 
Please follow up

We'd like to know the final outcome. The guy will probably say he "absent mindedly picked it up" and get off.
 
Its good he didn't know to turn the location service off or you would have been in a complete mess !

I dont leave mine anywhere out of my sight.

I really should start using the 4 digit passcode !

Such a steal able item.
 
Applejuiced said:
Nice, that's the reason I have it installed on my iphone and dont even use a passcode lock any more.
If its locked the thief wont be able to do anything with it and will probably turn it off and go home and restore it.
If he can get in and play around with apps, youtube, browse the net and other stuff then I can track it and get it back.
I dont know, just my way of thought I guess cause most criminals are not that bright.
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That's definitely the best way to go about it. I also delete the "Find my iPhone" app so that they don't come across it while perusing about.

It's pointless to lock your phone when you can track it via GPS. Besides, unless you are some government official, you shouldn't have data that is THAT sensitive on your phone that is accessible without another login. AKA, don't set your bank apps to auto-login.
 
Please follow up with this and appear for the court case. Many don't release that the arrest is the beginning of the process for justice to happen.
 
Some one stole my iphone from my house a few weeks ago. Tracked it to a certain area until i couldn't get a connection anymore. Found out ******* went into my email and saw that he was getting tracked so he shut phone off. Anyways i got my phone back because someone told me who took it and they returned the phone for me. Will be looking for another app that tracks and don't send email. *
 
Apollo 13 said:
Some one stole my iphone from my house a few weeks ago. Tracked it to a certain area until i couldn't get a connection anymore. Found out ******* went into my email and saw that he was getting tracked so he shut phone off. Anyways i got my phone back because someone told me who took it and they returned the phone for me. Will be looking for another app that tracks and don't send email. *
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I thought you only got an e mail when you have sent a message to the fone or locked/wiped it.

Tracking the iphone on the map in my case does not result in an e mail saying something like we are tracking your iphone 4 !

:confused::confused::confused:
 
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