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Is the setting "Find My iPhone" new in 3.0?

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I was poking around my iPhone Settings in 3.0 and came across this under 'Mail,Contacts,Calendar">(my main mail account)>MobileMe and at the bottom is a setting for turning on "Find My iPhone" when turned on a dialog come up saying "This enables the "Find My iPhone" service on your MobileMe account at me.com"

I looked at MobileMe but this service isn't up yet.

I'm guessing this will use IPs to find your lost/stolen phone or at least keep limited track of your kids?

If this is old news, sorry. I searched for "find my iphone" and of course lots of lamenting about iTunes not finding it, etc. came up.
 

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It would add some value to the service. I'd been thinking of dropping it...

I could spy on my wife, kids, maybe get my phone back...
 
sleepstodream, got a link to that info? I couldn't find anything on "Find My iPhone" without a ton of people having problems hooking up their phones showing up.
 
lindsayanng said:
I wonder if it would still "find" the phone even though its been restored??
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Maybe you can only turn it off in MobileMe once it's been turned on, regardless of restore/jailbreak/whatever. It's probably something that is enabled in the 3.0 software by default, and turning it on then links your MobileMe account to it. Once it's linked, it should always be able to find the phone so long as the phone is turned on. Wouldn't matter if it had been restored because your MM account would already have all the info it needs to track the GPS hardware.

Just a guess.
 
I bought my MobileMe for cheap off amazon. Works great. Next is AppleCare from eBay. I saw one today for $135, couldn't believe it.
 
IgnatiusTheKing said:
Maybe you can only turn it off in MobileMe once it's been turned on, regardless of restore/jailbreak/whatever. It's probably something that is enabled in the 3.0 software by default, and turning it on then links your MobileMe account to it. Once it's linked, it should always be able to find the phone so long as the phone is turned on. Wouldn't matter if it had been restored because your MM account would already have all the info it needs to track the GPS hardware.

Just a guess.
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Yea I would guess that it can only be turned off via MobileMe, it probably looks for the iPhone with your specific serial# which won't ever change even with a restore
 
WOULDNT be fun search for an stollen iphone with another iphone in REAL TIME =D thanks to the an app synch with mobileme?'
 
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