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I just had a few co-workers get their iPhone stolen. Is there a way to turn these on and use find my iPhone? Even if the feature doesn't exist today it needs to be implemented. Even if the only the police can do it. Because this person needs to be caught. Any HELP?
iPhone 4
There is no method to remotely turn on the iPhone.
The droid has a remote turn on, you would think apple would to. Although, the more iphones stolen and not revocered, the more iphones they sell to replace. Apple ought to get their act together and look out for their consumers. I have broken 3 iphones, after the second apple cancelled my insurance. Today I lost my phone and with the findmyphone feature, useless, I still can't find my phone.
If you can't find your phone, did you turn on the Find My iPhone service? Settings>icloud. Without doing that, you can't track the phone. Having the Find My iPhone app on the device is not going to help, since that doesn't turn on the service.
If your phone is lost longer than the battery will allow, then what? I found my phone, but if you don't have it on when you lose it, none of the tricky dicky stuff works. I appreciate the response. It would be nice if you could find the phone on or off. Good Stuff.
You do understand what 'turned off' means don't you? It means the phone has no power. Without power the phone can do nothing. How can a phone that is turned off without power be communicated with to receive a signal to turn on.
If the phone can receive signals from a remote server, then it obviously isn't turned off as it needs power to be able to do anything.
me too.. my iphone was stolen 4 days ago..until now i don't have a result comiing from police..and find my iphone i think it didn't work..i want it too remotely turn on my device..when the time was stolen or even a hour ago and stiil have juice on it..
if you go to settings-->icloud-->find my phone-->then there is an option that says 'send last location'
so that if you miss place it it can help, it will send that location before it dies
but if they steal it and then move it may not help
Always turn on SEND LAST LOCATION
but if you didn't set it up in the first place then your phone is gone......forever
Why do people think this stuff is automatic?
If you READ the instructions or better yet, go to a Apple store and have one of those people help you set it up and explain it to you
Even when battery is critically low/about to shut down, the device will send it's last GPS coordinates to Find My iPhone map
There is NO physical way to REMOTELY turn on ANYTHING that does NOT have power going to it, you need power going into ANYTHING to be able to remotely turn it on
So even a "hemDroid" is NOT actually turned off to be remotely "turned on", it's more like WAKE FROM SLEEP - NETWORK
Turning something off, means NO POWER at all
If you can't keep your iPhones (you always loose them or get stolen), then switch to a $49 Walmart Android phone and pick new people to hang around with
How can you Remotely turn on iPhone?
