Find My Phone app for iPhone and iPad
4.0 (
4020 ratings )
Utilities
Travel
Developer:
Chris Oklota
4.99 USD
Current version:
1.4, last update: 8 years ago
First release : 29 Jan 2009
App size: 91.82 Kb
Do you ever worry about losing your phone? How would you get it back?
With Find My Phone, you can leverage all of the capabilities of your iPhone to get it back. This app determines its current location using GPS and packs this info into an email so you know exactly where your phone is. It even includes a Google Maps link to its current location!
After configuring your email and phone number, folks who find your phone can easily get in touch with you right from the apps main screen.
This is a good start, and it is where most apps stop.
But what if the person who found your phone doesnt want to get in touch with you? Maybe they want to keep the nice phone they just found. Wouldnt it be nice if the app could send you its location without requiring any action from the person who found it? Well, with Find My Phone, you can configure the app to send you its location in an email, and to even call you, automatically when it is launched. The person who found your phone may not even realize that this information is getting sent to you when they run the app.
And finally, you can now configure the app to send you an email every hour. For this option to work, you must leave the app running and the phone turned on. In exchange for a decrease in your battery life, you will receive hourly emails detailing your phones journey.
Dont rely on the person who found you phone knowing which contact to call, or to follow up and actually get in touch with you...be sure of it with Find My Phone.
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A couple of points based on reviewer feedback:
- Be sure to launch the app at least twice so it will stop asking the user if its OK to determine your current location. From that point on, the app will determine its location automatically when launched.
- There is currently no way to launch this app, or any other app, remotely.
- Be sure to add [email protected] to your address book to avoid location emails from being filtered out as spam.
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Pros and cons of Find My Phone app for iPhone and iPad
Find My Phone app good for
very useful app, I can see it coming in handy.
only problem is that if its stolen, the thief can just not allow it to use the current position.
also an option to have it send an email every time the phone starts would be cool.
Great little app, works as advertised. Like the idea of determining location and sending it to me without interaction from the user. The icon is nondescript enough that someone would be enticed to click on it. Thanks!
I completely agree, this application would be better if this app was some how hidden in the iphone or if it didnt ask you if you want your location to be sent, unfortunately only dishonest people happen to find my lost items.
Very useful, but may I suggest one more option? The ability to choose in putting the message "Reward and Good Karma, if found" on the screen under the buttons. It can be an option to turn the message on or off, or alternate messages... (the ability to create your own unique text about what youll do for the person who finds it, or additional instructions to help get the phone back in your hands, etc... Theres a lot of possibility here.
1. Provide an update that gives the option of an icon that doesnt say "found phone".
2. Allow emAils to be sent to multiple adresses.
3. Possibly include the option to disguise it as a game or something else.
Please update soon!!!
I liked this app, it is useful. I wish it can be protected the setting information from a stranger who found my iPhone.
Also when it asked if this app can use your current position, it doesnt look like that it sends an email or call if the person denys. It is more likely the person wont accept the question to answer if they want to keep it.. Otherwise this is it almost what I have been looking for a long time since I bought my iPhone.
Some bad moments
It just seems unlikely that someone will think to go through all of my apps just in case I might have a program that might help them... hopefully can one day access it remotely without finder needing to load the app... then it will be nothing short of brilliant.
The guy who wrote this is one card short of a full deck. Imagine your phone is lost/stolen all the good Samaritan/thief has to do is guess your password to your device, search through your 50 or so applications to find this one “Find My Phone”. He/She then opens the application and clicks the send mail to send you the location of your phone; yah that makes lots a sense. Or how about this, you ever lose your phone and need to find it? How about just open the Find My Phone app and send yourself a mail to locate your phone; uhh wait a second something doesn’t seem right. Well congrats CLO software! You swindled $1 out of me!.
Don’t by this app unless you have a $1 burning a hole in your pocket.
1. It relies on the GPS location built into the phone. On mine at least the accuracy when used inside a building is bad. It was off by six blocks.
2. If you set it to send an email when you open the app, it has a little busy animation which it going to tell all but the dumbest that something is happening. Doesnt that sort of give away the secret notification?
3. If you set it to phone upon opening the app, it opens the regular calling function and displays that screen. Not exactly a stealth feature.
Worthless since you really need your phone with the application to find your phone......or anyone elses lost phone. Not a common sense use in the IPhone tradition.
This application is soooooooooooooo faulty lagggy i cant belive that i actually bought this piece of crap. CLO Software LLC should be ashmahed of such pathetic devlopment every time u launch this application it fails also installed on my brother phone it doesnt even send emails as it suppose to what a waste of time. Sometimes I think I should have just stick to my blackberry then trying all these crappy programs for iphone.
its stupid....not be able to get your hourly emails of the location unless the application is running, it should work when you have the hourly email alerts on without having the application running, because what if I want to Find My Phone if i forgot it somewhere or it fell under my car seat ect. ect. the hourly email alerts should work without the application running.
