Now more and more technologies are coming to make human life smooth and tension free. So today I’m going to give you are tension free breath. You are surely thinking, how? Then I must tell you that today my post is about tracking, tracing and recovering your lost or stolen IPhone. In normal life there are chances of IPhone being stolen or lost or misplaced.
When your IPhone is stolen or lost. You start thinking about the information that you have stored in it, including the passwords, login details to your financial accounts, your Facebook account and much more. You start thinking about those pictures that you treasure and wish you had transferred them to your laptop before you misplaced your phone. Imagine what will happen if your iPhone is ‘actually’ lost or stolen instead of just being misplaced. Don’t worry! The world is not about to end. So now no need to search it in the room and calling your friends for if they had seen it or lodging a FIR. So to come up with this problem go through the article given below.
First make sure that your iPhone is actually lost or stolen. To do this, simply make a call to your iPhone from any other mobile phone and make sure that you can’t find it. Once you are sure that your iPhone is stolen or lost, proceed further.
First contact your mobile service provider (just go to the office of which company’s sim you are having) to block the SIM of your iPhone. Then check the bill of your iPhone to find out its IMEI number, and contact your nearest police station to lodge the FIR for lost iPhone with its IMEI number.
Use this FIR (First Information Report in India) to contact your mobile service provider. They will first block this iPhone so that it becomes unusable for the person who found or stole it. Now the person who had stolen it will not be able to run if he changes the SIM also. Then they will help you trace your iPhone using its IMEI number.
You don’t have to go through all these mini operations if you have any one of the following iPhone tracing and tracking apps installed on your iPhone. So, if you find your iPhone using the above procedure or if you buy a new iPhone, the first thing to do is to install any one or more of these apps.
• Find My iPhone: Assuming that you have IOS 5 on your iPhone and you have an Apple ID and you have already installed the Find My iPhone on your iPhone, and Allowed it from ‘Settings > iCloud > Find My iPhone’. Go to https://www.icloud.com/#findand login with your Apple ID. Click on Find My iPhone button and the app will instantly trace your iPhone to its exact location on a Map if its currently connected to the internet. If the iPhone is not connected to the internet, you can enable the option in Find My iPhone app to email you its location on map as soon as it gets online.
If you click on the location point of iPhone on the map, the Find My iPhone app will offer you three choices. You can play a sound on your iPhone or send a text message, you can wipe all your personal data on iPhone and you can lock the iPhone.
First you should send the message on your iPhone asking the new owner to send the iPhone back. You may also consider offering an award if they do send it back to you. You should then lock the iPhone after some time.
If you get no response even after a long time, you may consider removing all your data on it and then try to track it down via GPS locations on the map.
Note that once you wipe the data on your iPhone, it will be reset to factory defaults, and it will be impossible to recover the data on this iPhone even if you find it later.
• iHound: If you have an account at iHound, and have installed their iPhone tracking app, it will send you an alert by email stating that your iPhone is being located, whenever someone else connects your iPhone to their computer. You will also receive a report that shows where your iPhone is being used when you log into the website for iHound.
This is an important app to install as anyone who has stolen or found your lost iPhone will connect it to his computer to install and modify the iPhone for his own use.
• Navizon: This app uses GPS navigation, WiFi and Cellular triangulations to zone in on where the lost iPhone is located. Within this app is a newly added option that allows iPhone owners to send a text message to their iPhone to help track it. • MyFoundCast: This new technology embeds an “If you found this iPhone” message on the custom wallpaper that lets people know how to return your iPhone to you if they find it. If you are a member of this service, you will have your own tracking ID and if your phone is lost, all you have to do is call and let the service know to add your phone to their database of lost and found phones. However, this service counts on the fact that people will be nice enough to return your phone to you. Can you count on it? :)
• Mobile Spying Apps: There are some mobile spying apps like Mobile Spy and Phone Sheriff that lets you spy on any iPhone. These type of apps are generally used by parents to track the actions, including messages and phone calls, of their children. If you are young, you can ask your parents if they have any iPhone spying apps installed on your iPhone because these apps can help you track the exact location of your iPhone on a map. I know you will hate your parents after this, but hey, you at least got your lost iPhone back.
GadgetTrak: This app increases your chances of recovering your lost or stolen iPhone by generating location reports, sending a discreet message to your device, and snapping a photo of the thief with the built-in camera. With its restriction on "Deleting Apps", the thief will not be able to delete GadgetTrak from your iPhone. [$3.99]
Install GadgetTrak Before the iPhone is Lost or Stolen
2. Tap the GadgetTrak application icon on your iPhone to launch the app.
3. Create an account and sign in.
4. Set a passcode for GadgetTrak to prevent others from changing your settings or seeing the tracking status.
Recovering Lost/Stolen iPhone with GadgetTrak
2. Select your device to log in.
3. Once logged in, you’ll see your iPhone plotted on the map.
4. Click the "View" button then select "Tracking Reports" on the top.
5. The Camera allows you to snap a photo with a one-time fee of $0.99.
Device Locator: This allows you to track the location of your misplaced iPhone, sound an alarm on your lost or stolen iPhone, take a photo of the user remotely and send a message with sound. There’s no monthly or yearly fees involved. [$3.99]
Use Device Locator Before the iPhone is Lost or Stolen
2. Launch the app by tapping the icon.
4. Customize the settings in your iPhone.
Recover Your Stolen or Lost iPhone with Device Locator2. Set it to emergency mode and lock the application from the web application.
3. Track your iPhone’s recent location history, including the most recent position on a map.
If Found+ :This replaces your iPhone background wallpaper with a message if you have lost your iPhone. Even if your iPhone is locked with a passcode, a good Samaritan can reach you if he/she finds your phone. [$0.99]
Phone Trace 4:This tracks your lost or stolen iPhone’s real-time location reports and provides you with the new number of the person who is holding on to your iPhone. It also can send emails, SMS and some commands remotely. [$7.99]
Motion Alarm: This plays a customized alarm to alert you or the unauthorized iPhone holder when a pre-set level of movement is reached. It also provides GPS tracking so you’ll be able to receive a position report in your email Inbox. [$1.99]
Find My Friends :Besides Find My iPhone, the Find My Friends app can be used as an iPhone device tracker as well. By using your family members’ or friends’ iPhone (which has been accepted and added previously), you’ll be able to see your iPhone’s location on a list or on a map. [Free]
Prey is the only mobile-recovery application that works across phones, tablets and computers. An open source product, its features include geolocation, snapshots, screenshots and remote hide/wipe. Prey Recoveries documents device-recovery success stories from around the globe. In order for Prey’s device tracking to work, the device must be connected to the Internet:
1. Install the software, then when you receive the activation link via email, log in to the website control panel – this will display any device you have running the software.
2. If your device is lost, log in to the control panel and select any or all of the following:
1. Info to gather (this will be sent to you via email): geolocation, network info, webcam images.
2. Actions to perform: sound an alarm, send an alert to the device screen, remote lock or secure data.
Lookout locates a missing device somewhere in the world every 5 seconds. But in terms of device tracking, the free version isn’t as feature rich as some competitors – it lacks remote wipe and lock, for example, but does include other features like security and data backup. To begin tracking:
1. Install the app and enter an email address
2. Log in to the Lookout website
3. Press the Locate button to display the device location on Google Maps
4. From the control panel, you can also sound an alarm
5. Remote wipe and remote lock are available only in the premium versions ($2.99/mo or $29.99/yr)
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