'Find My iPhone' App Updated With Driving Directions to Device Location

Tuesday December 11, 2012 10:08 AM PST by Jordan Golson
FindmyiphonelogoApple has updated its Find My iPhone iOS app with the ability to display driving directions to the lost device's location.

Find My iPhone is a free service built into iCloud. It allows users to lock, find, or erase a lost or stolen iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac.
If you misplace your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac, the Find My iPhone app will let you use another iOS device to find it and protect your data. Simply install this free app on another iOS device, open it, and sign in with your Apple ID. Find My iPhone will help you locate your missing device on a map, play a sound, display a message, remotely lock your device, or erase all the data on it.

If the iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch you want to locate is running iOS 6, Find My iPhone also includes Lost Mode. Lost Mode locks your missing device with a 4-digit passcode and can display a contact phone number right on the lock screen. And while in Lost Mode, your device will keep track of where it has been and display its recent location history when you check in with the Find My iPhone app.

Please note that Find My iPhone must be enabled in the iCloud settings on your device for you to locate it with this app.
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Find My iPhone is a free download from the App Store. [Direct Link]

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RoelJuun
85 months ago
...so you'll get yourself misplaced too.
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DTphonehome
85 months ago
Just hope it's not in Mildura, Australia.
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MasterHowl
85 months ago
But, you'll never get to the thief's house following Maps D:
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SteveJobs2.0
85 months ago
YOU: "Siri, give me the directions to my stolen iPhone!"

SIRI: "Ok, here are the directions to the nearest store that sells iPhones."
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RayK
85 months ago
Drive directly to the thieves. Exciting.
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snorkelman
85 months ago
when setting off on a trip you first post your phone to the desired destination, then you just use find my iphone to guide you to there :p
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mdelvecchio
85 months ago

Find My iPhone is useful, until they shut your phone off


youre assuming all lost phones are stolen phones. not the case.
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C DM
85 months ago

I understand the logic in applying this feature, but isn't there a slight risk to Apple in including it?

That is, you drive to iPhone's location following its theft/loss to discover it is in the hands of a criminal who attacks you when you knock on their door. Result - Apple receives lawsuit...

I'm not saying they shouldn't have included it, but given the amount of crazy litigation I see happening all over the World these days, I'm slightly surprised.

Personally, I think it's a good feature addition.

Technically speaking, Apple is almost always referring to this feature in the sense of the phone being lost/misplaced, rather than stolen. In that sense, what's the downside of going the extra step and giving you the option to see driving directions to the location where your phone is if you have lost/misplaced it?

Now, if it has actually been stolen, well, that's slightly different, but at least the marketing intent of the app is for lost/misplaced phones.
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pnoyblazed
85 months ago
Find My iPhone is useful, until they shut your phone off
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Tknull
85 months ago
There should be an in-app purchase.... "Hire a Thug".... He can meet you at the location and handle the physical requirements
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