Thanks. Had already turned it on, but was thinking there was something more I had to do! Now I'm sorted, and I don't intend thieves should get mine!
Carol P Sent from my iPhone using MBraille On 8 Oct 2013, at 07:36 pm, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: Hi Eileen and Carol, Yes, Eileen, you can wipe the phone if you log into iCloud or use Find my iPhone on another iDevice. I don't think that this turns off Find my iPhone, though. Carol, you do not have to have the Find my iPhone app downloaded for this to work. All you have to do is go into Settings, iCloud and turn on Find my iPhone. The app is only an interface to track down a lost or stolen device from another iDevice. If you, for example, have an iPad and if memory serves me right I think you do, it would make sense to download Find my iPhone to your iPad and, I guess, you could just have it on your iPhone, too, in case your iPad was stolen. I assume most people are more likely to have their iPhone stolen since you would more often have it with you and use it in public. The fact is that you need sighted help anyways whether you use Find my iPhone or iCloud.com to track it since it will show the location of your phone on a map. The so-called "Kill Function" which Apple has built into iOS 7 makes it much more difficult for a thief to actually get something out of the phone since like I said before, it prevents somebody from turning off Find my iPhone. I do think one can still wipe or restore the phone especially if no passcode has been set. Of course if Ahmed had a passcode on his phone it would make it yet harder for the thief to benefit from steeling the phone. Eileen, I think security is actually one of the main reasons to upgrade to a 5S especially if you are still on a 4 or 4S and would also benefit from the better processor, better camera and other new features. I completely agree with what they said during the keynote regarding how most people can't be bothered setting up a passcode and that Touch ID makes having your phone secured a lot easier. Of course there are people who think Apple collects all these fingerprints and passes them on to the NSA or FBI or whatever, but I somehow doubt that and in any case, many countries have and many more will add fingerprints to passports and I couldn't care less if the NSA had my fingerprint on file since I am not doing anything wrong or illegal and don't plan to start. In a way this is a bit like car theft. An iPhone without a passcode is really not so different from an unlocked car with the keys in the ignition. However, if you lock your car and have an alarm or even GPS on it (equivalent to a passcode and turning on Find my iPhone) it's a lot harder to steel it. OK, so yes, it's still easy to steel an iPhone as opposed to a car since you can grab it and run away with it and the thief may not know whether it is secured or not, but hopefully over time as more andmore people employ these security measures the theft of iPhones will drop because thieves may not want to take the risk that the device is useless to them and that they might even be tracked down. I heard of one case on the Today in iOS Podcast where a couple of guys stole a ladies iPhone in California. They then went to the beach and had fun taking pictures of each other not realizing that said lady had Photostream turned on and that all the pictures of them were nicely uploaded to her computer. She printed out a few and since she also had Find my iPhone turned on, the police tracked the phone and easily identified the thieves based on the pictures. Best regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Eileens Misrahi Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2013 11:05 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: How can I track my iPhone afte I has been stolen? Hello, I'm so sorry that this happened to you. The advise that Sieghard gave in going to the police is wise. Last year, my younger son was held up in San Francisco at gun point to his head. Of course, they only wanted the phone and any other electrnic devices. Luckily, he only had the phone. Sieghard and all, can't you wipe the phone clean through "Find My Phone" app? I guess this would not allow the chance to find it through the app though. Well, I guess this brings me back to reality and think hard about getting a new phone. Please keep us in the loop as far as the outcome. 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