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How to Find a Lost or Stolen iPhone

Aug 6 2011

How to Find a Lost or Stolen iPhone

This is a procedure that every iPhone user should follow.

Apple provide a free facility for finding your iPhone whether it’s been lost or stolen, but you need to set up the facility first.

As part of Apples Mobile Me facility, the Find my iPhone tool is provided free of charge to all iPhone users, all you need is an Apple ID.

If you don’t have an Apple ID you can easily get one through your iPhone:

  • Open the settings App on your iPhone
  • Go to the Mail, Contacts, Calendars section
  • Choose Add Account…
  • Select Mobile Me
  • Select the Create Free Apple ID option at the bottom of the screen

  • Follow the on screen instructions

If you have an Apple ID then you need to activate the Find my iPhone facility:

  • Open the settings App on your iPhone
  • Go to the Mail, Contacts, Calendars section
  • Choose Add Account…
  • Select Mobile Me
  • Enter your Apple ID and Password into the login box and press Next.
  • Activate the Find My iPhone selector

This will activate the Find My iPhone service.

To find your Lost or Stolen iPhone:

  • On a PC Navigate to https://me.com/find/
  • Enter you Apple ID and Password
  • A map will now be displayed which shows the location of your iPhone
  • If you click on the location of your iPhone you can lock or wipe it remotely.
  • You can also send a free message to the handset

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Feb 23 2011

How to control iPod music when your iPhone is locked

Here’s a very quick tip for those who listen to music on their iPhone using the iPod app when their phone is locked.

If you want to pause or start a track or skip backwards or forwards between tracks, you don’t have to unlock your iPhone, pressing home twice will bring up a music control box, allowing basic control over your music.

You dont have to worry about protecting your data as the rest of your iPhone is still protected by the phone lock.

Quick and easy

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Jan 20 2011

How to add security and child friendly restrictions on the iPhone 4

If you have given your child an iPhone 4 or iPod Touch as a present, you might be concerned and worried about what they are looking at on the Internet or what they are downloading on to their handset.

The iPhone has a number of security options built into the operating system which can help you protect your child, to access them launch the Settings App on your handset and select the General Option.

Within the settings section select the Restrictions Option

In this section you can set various restriction options, perhaps you want to Block YouTube, or the Web Browser or perhaps you want to block the Installation of new Apps, the options are all in this section.

There is a further step you can take to protect your child whilst web surfing, Google is the most popular Internet Search Engine and it’s possible to configure it on the iPhone to only return child safe search results.

Open the WebBrowser and go to Google Search Engine. Towards the bottom of the screen you will see a preferences link, click on it.

In the settings section Select the Strict option, and scroll down to the bottom of the page and select save.

Google will now only return family safe Internet results.

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