Using Find My iPhone with Snow Leopard and iPhone 4S

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Using Find My iPhone with Snow Leopard and iPhone 4S

I just upgraded my family's three iPhones from 3GS to 4S. I have a family MobileMe account and would like to continue to use Find My iPhone. I cannot upgrade my OSX on my Macbook Pro past Snow Leopard without rendering a professional app that I use for my business unusable. Is there a way to make this work with the new phones without upgrading to Lion / enabling iCloud? That is unfortunately not an option for me until the pro software app is made Lion compatible. Thanks.

Posted on Feb 13, 2012 8:13 PM

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bmansfie Author

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Feb 13, 2012 8:20 PM in response to bmansfie

PS... All three of us have MobileMe accounts

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randers4

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Feb 13, 2012 8:30 PM in response to bmansfie

I suppose you could set up a dual-boot environment and keep Snow Leopard in a small partition to run your business software. Clone your Snow Leopard partition into a second partition (with SuperDuper or similar) and upgrade this partion to Lion. Then remove unnecessary applications from the Snow Leopard partition and resize it to save space.

This arrangement would allow you to run Lion as you primary OS with most of your applications and maintain a boot option to Snow Leopard to run your business software until its updated. See http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20081187-263/how-to-keep-snow-leopard-when- upgrading-to-lion/.

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Feb 13, 2012 8:33 PM in response to randers4

Fantastic suggestions. Thanks very much.

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randers4

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Feb 13, 2012 8:35 PM in response to bmansfie

You're welcome. When you software is updated, just delete the Snow Leopard partition and resize the Lion partition to reclaim the space.

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ckuan

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Feb 13, 2012 9:30 PM in response to bmansfie

You don't need lion to use Find My iPhone. Configure Find My iPhone in iPhone then use computer's Safari and log in to https://www.icloud.com

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Jul 10, 2012 1:23 AM in response to ckuan

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Thanks. I ws told to do this but the method seemed to demand I had Lion and icloud.. Reading your post, I persisted and it worked fine although, with my iphone sitting next to me, the map told me the iphone was in my neighbours shed two doors away! Progress of a sort!

Terry

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Jul 25, 2012 8:52 PM in response to terryfromnorth shields

That is about as accurate as you can expect to find its location, especially indoors.

My iPad has GPS built into it and indoors, it is pretty hard to lock onto it (at least your phone can use cell towers, too - my G3 is currently turned off). If you take your iPhone or iPad outside, the accuracy gets much better. Still, I find there is an offset of sorts, but not too much. It located me to within about 20 ft. About the same as a GPS.

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