Have you ever wondered what you would do if your iPhone is stolen by a thief or you lost it accidentally? Have you taken any precautionary measures to find it? Losing something important can be a nightmare. Some preventative measures can make your smart phone more secure. Here are some useful ways to track and recover your lost or stolen Apple iPhone.
Check out: How to Find Your Lost or Stolen Apple iPod
Find My iPhone
It’s one of the best App to find your lost iPhone but it works only for iPhone 4. It also requires subscription based MobileMe to be installed on your smart phone.
Enable Find My iPhone in MobileMe settings from your iPhone. Sing in to me.com from your computer or from any other iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch with Find My iPhone installed to find the location of your device on the Map.
Here are its main features:
- Pinpointing the current location of your device on the Map
- Display a message or play a sound for two minutes at full volume. It will work even if your device is set to silent
- Protect your content by setting the passcode lock remotely
- Remote Wipe your device to erase your personal data and protect your privacy
FoneHome
FoneHome is a comprehensive solution to track and recover your iPhone. It runs in the background and transmits GPS-tracked position of the device at regular intervals. If your device is lost or stolen, just sign in to your FoneHome account to view its current location. FoneHome costs $2.99.
Important App features:
- Real-time tracking
- Loud siren to locate your device
- Stores last 100 location updates
- Remotely snap the picture of the thief
- Google Latitude Integration
iLocalis
With iLocalis installed on your iPhone your device will become much safer because it’s considered as one of the best theft-tracking solution for iPhone.
Using iLocals you can control your device from your computer with internet connectivity. You can find your smart phone with the track feature or you can make a remote call or SMS to see the new number if the SIM has been changed.
It’s a paid app with ten days trial. After ten days you will have to donate 5 Euros per year for basic package and 15 Euros for premium package.
Basic package includes features like location tracking, share your location with others, notify friends nearby, remote iPhone control, send messages to your friends for free and remote SMS commands.
The premium package has basic package features plus some additional features such as remote backup, remote wipe, alert zones, push support, remote audio recording, remote iPhone lock and lock iLocalis uninstallation.
You should have jailbroken iPhone with Cydia installed to use this App.
Navizon
Navizon tracks the location of iPhone using triangulating signals which include WiFi, Cellular Towers and GPS. Due to this reason it also works even if you don’t have GPS enabled phone. It calculates location of the device by using nearby WiFi access points and cellular towers and compares it with collaborative database of known data points.
Locate-by-SMS feature allows you to locate the location of your iPhone by sending an SMS. If the SMS starts with the keyword you specified in the settings of Navizon , it will send you a reply containing the location of the device.
Navizon also includes cool features like Buddy Tracker with which you can see the whereabouts of your friends and family. Directions Finder and Local search allows you to look for places around you and provides you directions to get there.
Mobile Spy
Mobile Spy will record the activities of anyone who uses your iPhone. It will record text messages call activities, GPS locations and upload the data silently on your private Mobile Spy account. You can buy it for $99.97 per year.
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