Losing
an iPhone can be a traumatic experience,
especially if you recently paid money for a new one. But circumstances needn’t
be so dire with the help of iCloud and the iPhone's built-in GPS – if
you’ve taken the proper precautions.
After you’ve set up iCloud, go
into the iCloud settings and enable Find My iPhone. You can also just download
the Find My iPhone app. Once signed up, you can track your phone on a map. From
there, you can remotely force the phone play a sound, lock down the phone, have
it display an alert message, or even wipe its memory. Of course, this might not
be necessary if you can find it via the GPS tracker. Just hope it doesn't run
out of battery power... or lose service.
The Find My iPhone app
can be linked to the iPhone 4 and 4S with an Apple ID.
