Now that Find My iPhone (and why hasn’t it been renamed “Find My iDevice” yet?) is free to all owners of recent iOS products, more and more stories about how it is helping to reunite owners with their devices are coming out. I heard what is definitely one of the more amazing ones this past week.
While waiting in line for my iPad 2 on Friday, I struck up a conversation with a fellow iDevice aficionado named Joe. As we discussed our impeding purchases and the other iDevices we owned, he relayed the story about how his wife lost her iPad. At first, she thought that she had left it in her office, but when they checked, it wasn’t there. Joe logged in to the MobileMe web site, but the iPad wasn’t reporting its location. Over the next several days, Joe checked and checked, but it never did report its location. Joe used the site to send a command to lock the iPad with a code and to display a message with his phone number, but he wasn’t too hopeful, fearing that it had either been damaged, or that somehow whomever had found it had removed the MobileMe account.
Several weeks later, Joe received a call from the owner of a pizza place telling him that he had the iPad! Apparently, one of his employees had found it (after Joe’s wife had eaten there), and since it had no identifying details that were obvious to him, he placed it in the store’s safe. Unfortunately, he forgot about it for several weeks, then finally remembered it was in there. He connected it to his iPod charger, and when it booted up, it displayed Joe’s phone number.
It just goes to show – there are still some honest people in the world today, never give up hope, and Find My iPhone iDevice is a persistent little service!
Here’s hoping that the first thing Joe did when he got home with his iPad 2 was to enable MobileMe on it. Just saying….
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