How to get your stolen iPhone back or find it if it's lost

Posted by nkbish0p at 23:05

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iPhones. Everyone seems to want one but not everybody is willing to pay for one so unfortunately many people have had the sorry experience of having their phone stolen. Fortunately, if you have read this, even if your phone does get stolen you have a great, free chance of getting it back.

Apple's mobileme service is free and allows you to locate your iPhone via GPS. After doing this you can remotely wipe your iPhone to remove all your data, put a password on it to stop people accessing it or you could pick up the phone and call the police to go get your phone back!

How to set it up

This is easy and totally worth the 5 minutes that it takes. Seriously. Everyone should do this.

• Make sure your iPhone is running iOS 4.2. Make sure your iPhone has GPS (note that the original iPhone 2g does not).
• Tap settings then tap mail, contacts and calendars.

• Tap add account then tap mobileme.

• Enter your apple ID and password (the email address you use in the app store and iTunes).

• If your account says not verified open your email to verify your account via the email sent to you.

• Return to the mobileme screen and turn on "find my iPhone"

How to find your iPhone

Go to me.com and sign in with your apple ID and password. Easy!

Alternatively you can find your iPhone with the "find my iPhone app" which you can get here

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