Losing an iPhone can affect your business; disrupt your workflow by not having access to email and phones thus making your life difficult. Hence it is advisable to set up apps to electronically track your handset. There are several free tracker apps in the market that help to find a stolen phone.

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How To Solve The Biggest Problem of Stolen iPhone
Losing an iPhone can affect your business; disrupt your workflow by not having access to email and phones thus
making your life difficult. Hence it is advisable to set up apps to electronically track your handset. There are several
free tracker apps in the market that help to find a stolen phone.
Find My iPhone app is a cloud based service by Apple, used to track Apple devices iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. It
has Lost Mode option that not only tracks the location of the device but also tracks where all it has been taken. This
would help one to decide their next course of action. The application helps to send a message to the lost device, with
a contact number. Anyone who finds it can call back at the number from the Lock Screen without having to unlock
the handset. Find My iPhone App cannot be turned off or erased from the device. It is actually inbuilt in iOS7 or its
later versions. This is possible by a feature called Activation Lock which prevents anyone accessing the OS without
the Apple ID password. iCloud can help find the lost iPhone. One needs to sign up to iColud.com to track the iPhone.
This option can only be used in case of the availability of iCloud Services. ‘If Found Lock Screen’ is another app for
iPhone which allows messages to be added to your locked screen wallpaper. People generally update the screen
with their contact details, so that once lost, they can be contacted by the person who finds it. The app has features of
customizing the screen.
iHound is another mobile tracking and security service which has an iOS or Android app component. It has a simple
app interface displaying your current location on a map through GPS. MobiWee is another free mobile tracker similar
to ‘Find My iPhone’ app. It is more than a mobile locating app and works on iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile and
Blackberry handsets. In addition to tracking, it has a feature of retrieving data from the lost handset and also has the
option of shutting down the device from any web browser. This app is only available for corporate users. Similarly,
iLocalis allows one to log in to the website and track the missing handset by sending a message to the lost iPhone.
This works even for mobiles whose SIM cards have been removed. One can also get the, new phone number of the
iPhone with the help of iLocalis. Mobile Defense is another such app to track lost Android Smartphones. Remote
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locking of the handset can be done with Mobile Defense once the lost devise is tracked. Glympse is another cell
phone tracking system but it can only work on GPS enabled devices.
Mobile Apps like Hidden, GadgetTrak, Device Tracker and Prey are third party apps and work on Significant
Location Change services which are built into the operating system. But these services only update location data for
the app when it is moving.
The above tracking methods are only valid in case the mobile has a working internet connection. The mobile cannot
be accessed in case it is in the airplane mode; the phone is off or has no data connection since it cannot send back
any location data to the internet. Once an iPhone is erased it is impossible to locate it. It is also not possible to track
it without an iCloud or a Google account.
Though there are several high tech apps available in the market today but they work under some assumptions. Basic
conditions like an internet connection or the enabling of certain features is a must to avail these apps. So in case of
lost mobile the last option should be to report to the police!
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