Without this feature location service is useless
There is one location feature that Apple needs to program in the location app and in the mobile me website.
The feature I refer to is to show you the last location of your devices even if some one turns off location option in the iphone or ipad.
With this great feature you could find your devices more easily because you could see the last location recorded by your device.
I think about this feature because unfortunately the iphone 4 of my wife was pickpocket, the iphone was on airplane mode because we were outside our country and she only uses it for taking photos and playing games.
After we detected that a pickpocket take the iphone I try to locate it using my iphone 4 app, also I sent multiple messages thinking that maybe the thief would turn wifi on.
After one week I got 2 messages from mobile me, the first one was the following:
Dear MobileMe member,
iPhoneM was located on July 25, 2011 at 12:54 AM.
You can view this device’s location for the next 24 hours with the Find My iPhone app or atme.com/find
The other message I got from mobile me says that the iphoneM has received the message I sent.
Unfortunately I have found that if you disable location services in your iphone or ipad the location feature does not work, your device disappears from your devices list instantly. It could be great that you could see your device after it was turn off the location.
If you think about this you are the only that could program the location on the first time and because of this you are the owner of the device.
Another security feature could be that if you want to turn of the location option in the iphone or the ipad you need to type another time the password of the mobile me account, or type your itunes account password to disable this feature in the ipad app.
I hope that Apples think more about this and in the future we could see the last location of your devices any time. If Apple has think about this great feature now I could see where is the iphone 4 that is lost.
Lawrence please read my post to understand it.
I send a message to locate my iphone, and after one week I received a mail saying that my message was delivered and that my iphone was located, when I go to mobile me to see where the iphone was, I can't view the iphone in my devices list.
Because of this it is important that Apple shows you the last location of your iphone this way you could find or recover a stolen iphone more easily.
About police, NSA, etc, etc, they already have the technology to view where you are at any time, also do you know that even if you turn off your mobile phone it is still sending signals? Have you seen any movie where everybody removes the battery of their phones so that no one can see their location or remotely turn on their phone to listen to their conversations? In phones like the iphone it is not possible to remove the battery this is why I bet that it keep sending signals all the time.
Building more features to locate your iphone will only make it better for you because anyone with the right techonology can already view your location right now.
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