Stolen iPhone 4S...any way to track it? other than using the Find My Iphone app

Hi,

You may have left your phone in the bathroom, but you should also recognize that it probably has been stolen....why else would it now be turned off and going to voicemail?

Report it to the police. Change your Apple ID/iTunes/iCloud password.

As far as your photos go, the ones you have on your Photo Stream are safe for the nonce, but you would be well advised to either set up your iCloud account on your Mac and turn it on there. You can set it up now, and any pictures currently in your Photo Stream will show up in a Photo Stream folder in iPhoto automatically. You can also save your Photo Stream pictures to the Camera Roll on your iPad and then sync it to your Mac so that those photos get imported to iPhoto.

The rest are gone.

Best practice going forward would be to get iCloud set up on your Mac with Photo Stream turned on, and then to regularly go into the Photo Stream folder on your Mac (which will show up as soon as you get iCloud and Photo Stream set up on the Mac), and move the oldest ones into an Album. I have noticed that my Photo Streams automatically get saved to an Event in iPhoto once a month, but if you take more than 1000 pictures a month, then you want to manually get them saved off.

Also, back up your iPhoto library to an External Hard Drive. It's easiest to use Time Machine to do this (it is built into your Mac). You can do this on an automatic schedule (if your external hard drive is always attached), or manually. If you do it manually, do it as often as you get to a point where you have irreplaceable data that has been obtained/created since your last backup.

I hope you are right, and that your iPhone shows up. Sorry for your troubles.....but I can't emphasize enough - back up, back up, back up......

Good luck,

GB

HELP ME AlaskanElizabeth! I've tried talking with my service provider (Sprint) and they're not any help (since I didn't have insurance). I'll pay for your services if you can help!

Despite the AlaskanElizabeth's claims to certain professional creditials, she is incorrect in most of what she's saying about finding lost phones. I think that explains the lack of useful specifics. If you did not activate some sort of tracking service before the phone was lost, you are, for all practical purposes, out of luck.

Apple will not assist you in finding your lost phone, regardless of how many different ID numbers it has. Law enforcement could supoena all sorts of records from your carrier that might enable them to find your phone if it was still turned on and connected. However, it is unlikely that they would do so as the cost would far outweigh the value of the phone.

Best of luck.

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hey, my iphone was stolen today i think i know who took it. dyou think you could help advise me how to find it:?

The only way to locate a lost/stolen iPhone is via Find My iPhone. Log into www.icloud.com and see if you can locate the device. If not, then there is no way to locate it, despite the claim from a poster who has not shown up since that original post.

dear sir one of my friend lost his i phone 4s but now sim not working we try to contect but sim outoff reach so how we will find out that mobile pls help me

Please read the entire thread. Your question has already been answered, several times.

I lost my iPhone 4s, 72 hrs ago. Just a month ago, i thought i lost it, and from work logged into icloud - and was able to find my iphone location - it was home. That's about as useful as it gets - you can rest assured that you will find it when you get back home - no need to stress till then. The location was static for 5 hours - it was definetely home.

If anyone things they can do some GPS location - forget it - the device needs to be switched on and have an internet connection. A thief's 1st instict would be to remove the SIM - so all these fancy tools are useless.

Will service provider and police trace / track the device? Perhaps only in the movies.

I said that actually-

Please look at the photo I uploaded of my iCloud.

This is an idea of the amount of devices I have any given time. If you think I uploaded and iMac I rebuilt last week and my iCloud but only has DDR2 RAM and a 32bit processor (which is smart as I'm sure you are means they can't upgrading operating system past lion), making it substantially less capable. This computer doesn't even have Bluetooth. yet I'm sure you'll notice even though I haven't loaded it it's listed on my devices!!!! Wow.... How ever did that happen???

If you are normal- Apple ID and iCloud are synonymous with one another. There's no electrical supply to that iMac- but the second I plug it in you could see that it is located in my condo.

Linus different capable of running the software so how is this happening?!?!?!?!

Apple ID autosyncs an iCloud if you've established it already.

The majority of these devices I have never utilized, you were fixed flipped and moved, get it anytime I can login and track them. Because the cereal is attached to my Apple ID my iCloud pulled it in.

I'm sure photos are ample documentation for you I'll upload pictures of iPads IMAX without electrical supplies and iPhones.

I'm sure looking at my cloud will reinforce the fact that only someone who knows the ins and outs of these systems and owns an impressive amount of devices (this is my personal cloud my professional cloud is seven times bigger). You'll see what I'm referring to.

I would love to see your photo documentation debunking my case? Perhaps you had time to go through Apple's extensive training programs? Learn the ins and outs of the OS X and iOS protocols? But I'm sorry if you have establish are clock correctly set it up and establish it to be synced to your Apple ID you don't have to load software....

Or do you only own an iPhone do you not only OS X operating system that synchronizes Mountain lion? How about OS X server which oversees these clouds? That's were really comes together.

That as long as you set up one device correctly Apple autosyncs.

By the way you're not using cellular technology when the iCloud locates your device (think that you can use OS X to find your Mac or Wi-Fi on the Wi-Fi iPad? If this is removed from your cell phone it doesn't matter. Using internal technology built into the processor). for satellite location.

But if you are utilizing OS X operating system on a computer how we recommend upgrading the LoJack security settings. $125 is money well spent to activate this feature apples return rate is over 97%.

But please upload pictures in your photos and be happy to see anybody else's device Cloud??? I have to take my advance recertification exams simplifying these things to the average user especially those who think that they're super users really prepares me!!! :)

Depending on how badly you like your phone back, and if you still have the IME I ESN and serials on it- you can actually track the phone using cheater software for unfaithful spouses.

The cost is extremely exorbitant. But they're able to locate just about everything.

There's more than one way to track a phone....

What do you really want off your phone?

The cost of satellite location and tracing / tracking for a phone off the alternate information (like G Mac address the Bluetooth and Wi-Fi modem IDs, your hex digit identifications,

The other advanced protocols The TCP/IP uses, is costly! $400 for the first go around-

Up to $2,000 to track over a 30 day timeframe. I'm sure it seems feasible to anyone who knows what technology exists in today's society, that find my phone is not the only way to locate something. I have been most successful with The system for unfaithful spouses. Their well-established, cell phones sat tech absolutely don't rely on a sim.

I have a hard time recommending $400 investment on the 4s???

I'd say by $300 iPhone 5 on eBay- try to re-create your contacts, And next time use your cloud. :)

For anyone looking to actually learn the protocols?

First Apple has a database of KBb articles-

Second there's an app you can install an iOS devices called Safari reader, it allows you to view online electronic books including technical guides. Specifically Peachpit press technical guides.

Off of training.apple.com you can download integration basics in iBooks that'll teach you the very very basics of iOS protocols and OS X protocols (which will walk you through all of this). Then you can for $65 get a certificate in it! - on 36 more and you have your first set of operating systems down, only two more operating systems and you can get all of the available certificates but never catch up to me. :(

There's also Mac management integration on this site and iBook format to download. Apple has a press company called Peachpit press where they make all of their technical manuals. Pocket guides are aimed at people who can't write shell scripts or understand the 36 scripting languages, understanding of people to call GPT etc....

Lastly there's a website for $35 a month, Apple owns creative edge.com - electronic database of all of the technical guides for every program ever made. Including advanced and simple, videos rough cuts and technical guides. When you don't know the answers you can look them up! Just cause you read it tips and tricks manual or your owners manual doesn't mean you understand the way these things work...

But I commend anyone showing an advanced wants to learn tech, and Apple is definitely the forefront. Good luck next time check your resources!!!' :)

Wow, This last post is Gold.... in the case that it's not "fools gold" that is! LOL! Sorry, couldn't resist.... Tongue n cheek spirit, no offense. Sounds like meet to sink your teeth into.. Hope I find it all legit, cause this sounds like some awesome resources.. Love to learn on my own. Thnx.