Engineers at Apple are currently working on an app with the code name “GreenTorch” that would combine the company’s existing Find My iPhone and Find My Friends apps into a single offering, possibly to debut in iOS 13. That’s according to a new 9to5Mac report, which also adds that the unified app would have another …
Some people are born with very specific natural skills. Some are creative and excel in art while others are gifted athletes and dominate in sports. Ronaldo De Jesus Henao has a much more specific talent: He’s apparently very, very good at stealing smartphones. The thief was recently apprehended after finally being tracked down while in …
There’s one very neat feature built into modern smartphones, one that you should never want to use. If enabled, Find My iPhone lets you find a lost or stolen device, as long as it’s powered on. That’s great if you act fast and if you lost your device. But if thieves swiped it, chances are …
Ransomware might be a real problem for Windows users, but it’s not an issue for Apple devices unless they happen to be jailbroken. However, a new ransomware-like con is targeting unsuspecting iPhone users, as hackers have figured out how to harness the power of Find My iPhone to try to fool users into handing out a fee …
If you give your significant other a gift and they break up with you, do you have the right to take that gift back? Most people would probably say “no,” but apparently not everyone agrees. After breaking up with his girlfriend, a man trolled her in the most brilliantly evil way possible after she refused to …
More often than not, stories involving iOS’ “Find my iPhone” feature tend to be pretty low stakes affairs. As the stories typically go, someone loses their iPhone or has it stolen and relies upon “Find my iPhone” to track it down and retrieve it. Rinse and repeat. This is not one of those stories.
Either Michael Saba and Christina Lee have put together a massive operation that goes around the country stealing iPhones and Android phones, or they simply happen to live in some strange Bermuda triangle of lost and stolen smartphones. Okay, it’s definitely the latter. Saba and Lee are just the victims of bizarre bug that keeps sending angry iPhone and Android …
One of the worst things that can happen with your smartphone, regardless of operating system, is to lose it or have it stolen. But most devices have measures in place to help owners track them down and hopefully retrieve them, with the iPhone’s Find My iPhone app being among the first of them. However, Apple’s iCloud-based …
Jeremy Cook died on Sunday in London from multiple gunshot wounds from suspects who were in possession of his lost phone, which he was able to track with an app.
Advanced smartphone security features such as Apple’s Find My iPhone and Activation Lock iOS have helped significantly reduce smartphone theft recently, but Apple might soon introduce an additional safety measure meant to make the iPhone even more secure than it already is.
