Now that location services are being used for a lot of apps (especially Reminders) Apple ought to add the ability to have your lock only set when you leave a place (i.e. your house). Until then I won't use one.
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Who here has find my iphone on all the time?
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How do you put your contact info on lock screen?
I like that idea better than my method
I have a sticker with my info inside my otterbox case
I want to make it as easy as possible for an honest person to track me down
A $700 gadget is tempting to claim finders keepers...
Well that's the point isn't it?
Here's a hypothetical situation...
I can't find my Phone?
No worries I can find it by using "Find My iPhone", but first I have to turn on Location services on my iPhone. Now if I can only find it.
Anyways, I got burned once with my iPhone 4 when I left in a cup holde at a movie theater last year, or at least I thought I did. So I always leave it on.
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Almost any image editing program can add text to an image. From Photoshop to the simplest of photo editing programs on the iPhone. Then set it as your lockscreen wallpaper in settings. Nothing to it.
Mine is always on, that's the point.
It paid off when my phone was stolen. I had my MBP with me, therefore I was able to wipe the data off my iPhone, call the carrier & advise them, all within moments of the theft.
The phones easily replaceable so I only care about my data. With that erased, plus having password protection enabled on the phone, bought me the time to do what was needed.
It's a great setup.
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I've never passcode locked my iPhone, since I got the 3G on launch day in 2008. Then again, I'm fortunate enough to live in a country where petty theft isn't a huge problem.
As for Find My iPhone, it stays on. I've only had to use it once, really (left my iPhone at the gym last month, actually) but being able to track it down so easily makes whatever hit on battery life totally worth it.
I've never passcode locked my iPhone, since I got the 3G on launch day in 2008. Then again, I'm fortunate enough to live in a country where petty theft isn't a huge problem.
As for Find My iPhone, it stays on. I've only had to use it once, really (left my iPhone at the gym last month, actually) but being able to track it down so easily makes whatever hit on battery life totally worth it.
That would be my question, also. If location services is "on" for the app, but the app itself isn't running on the phone, is the phone still trackable?
EXCELLENT!
I just locked all of my location services so if found, they can't disable "find my iPhone"
... still trying to figure out how to disable the "delete apps" part... anyone?
got it. RTFM.
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/iphone_user_guide.pdf
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I just wish that you could disable the ability to turn off "find my iPhone" without turning off the ability to disable ALL location services.
Not cool.
But still cool that the find my iphone service exists.
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So now if someone is intent on stealing my phone, they will need to get it to just turn it off (so "find my iPhone" doesn't work), take it to their house, plug it in and wipe it.
Not cool.
But still cool that the find my iphone service exists.
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So now if someone is intent on stealing my phone, they will need to get it to just turn it off (so "find my iPhone" doesn't work), take it to their house, plug it in and wipe it.
Are we really understanding how location services works?
It isn't always on if you turn it on for Find My iPhone. If you set location services on for Find my iPhone, you're only giving it permission to use it when it needs to. So, it's actually off until a push notification gets sent to the phone that you're on another computer or iDevice and trying to locate it. At that point it will turn on GPS, find its location and send it to you.
It isn't always on if you turn it on for Find My iPhone. If you set location services on for Find my iPhone, you're only giving it permission to use it when it needs to. So, it's actually off until a push notification gets sent to the phone that you're on another computer or iDevice and trying to locate it. At that point it will turn on GPS, find its location and send it to you.
^^^This!! You can actually go to the iCloud site and use it, while keeping an eye on your phone and you'll see the location services arrow show up
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Ive never has to actually use the map feature on find my iPhone, but it's nice when I misplace my phone at home and it's on vibrate. I just pick up my iPad, go to the find my iPhone app, and tell it to play a sound on my iPhone with no message displayed. Then all I have to do is listen for the sound.
Ive never has to actually use the map feature on find my iPhone, but it's nice when I misplace my phone at home and it's on vibrate. I just pick up my iPad, go to the find my iPhone app, and tell it to play a sound on my iPhone with no message displayed. Then all I have to do is listen for the sound.
