Lost iphone4

[T2urtle]

So my friend lost her iPhone 4 att. Lost at school or bus ride home.

She said she has one those find iPhone apps. But doesn't know how to use it.

I'm an android user so I'm of no help. But I recall hearing u can activate GPS on the phone to find it.

 

[CA19100]

If she activated the "Find my phone" service, she can go here to find it:

http://www.icloud.com/

Sign in with her Apple ID and password (same one as iTunes), and use the Find My iPhone feature.

Hope she finds it!

 

[T2urtle]

I think she said she did that. Its didn't work. Or showed somewhere weird

Can people block this by factory reset or jailbreak and stuff?

 

[tfinch2]

Showed somewhere weird? Please explain. If someone found it, it is probably in a weird location.

 

[T2urtle]

Showed somewhere weird? Please explain. If someone found it, it is probably in a weird location.

I didn't get the full story. Since she doesn't have a replacement phone yet. But I want to say it showed the phone was at a place that she went and checked and wasn't there. Like a bad reading.

 

[ViRGE]

Can people block this by factory reset or jailbreak and stuff?

If they factory reset the phone, then yes, they break the association and the phone is for all practical purposes gone. It's not designed to survive a factory reset as the feature is primarily for securing the data of the device, and recovery of truly lost (rather than stolen) phones.

As for the location, I think it will show the last known location. If it has been stolen, that may be where the thief wiped it.

 

[MrX8503]

It shows the last known location. You have to wait till the iPhone connects online and updates its location. The location it gives you is pretty much the exact spot it's located.

 

[garynsa]

As mentioned it doesn't work if a factory reset is performed

 

[taylorbleach]

She can immediately change her iTunes passsword and then set it up as a new device. Or she can try using other software tools such as If Found, iHound, and iLocalis. Social media like Twitter is another way for her to find it out. A separate Twitter account for iPhone - using its spare email address. A program called "FindMe" will be able to use the tweets to this Twitter account to tell you the GSM tower's cell ID, as well as the latitude and longitude using Google maps.

 

[Lyfer]

Picts of said friend please.