Apple picker I would like to share my story with you, which will hopefully give you a bit of optimism that good people do exist, and a good ending can come, even if you don't expect it at all...
Lightning theft
Last Thursday evening (19/6) I spent working time at a jazz concert at the Hybernia Theatre. It was before the very last encore and I was sitting in the third row. I checked messages on my iPhone and immediately put the phone back in my pocket. But apparently wrong and during the last song my iPhone fell out of it.
The show is over, I get up from my chair, walk down one floor, and less than a minute later I realize I don't have my iPhone. I immediately return to the place where I was sitting, but the phone is nowhere to be found. A moment of panic, it is not possible for someone to steal at a concert with an entrance fee of around one thousand. I ask at the bar, at the staff... Nothing. No one found the phone. To my dismay, none of my colleagues who have an iPhone have the Find My iPhone app installed.
No one responds to calls and SMS attempts. After about 20-25 minutes, with the help of my family, I lock the phone via iCloud.com and discover that it is already somewhere in Nádražní Street in Anděl. What follows is a frantic night drive through Prague, but before I get to the place, the phone is switched off (but in lost mode). Thank God, the top Power button almost doesn't work for me, and for those who don't know how, turning off the phone is a big hassle.
The next day the phone is still dead and I give up all hope in the afternoon. I am getting a new SIM and reluctantly buying a new phone.
Over the weekend I came to terms with the whole situation and am trying to forget about it…
All's well that ends well
On Monday (June 23) around eight o'clock in the evening, an elderly lady (according to her voice, 6+) calls the number entered via iCloud.com, saying that she found my phone and read the message on the display. I immediately set out on my journey with a flower in my hand, expecting my ruined phone with a broken screen to be returned. To my surprise, the iPhone 60 and the case are completely undamaged and still have 5% battery left. He is said to have been lying on the ground in the vegetable section of Tesco.
An incredible ending with a truly happy ending that no one would have hoped for. I will probably never find out what happened to him for four whole days.
Some knowledge, advice and tips from life
- If I didn't have the number lock on and the ON/OFF button broken, I would probably never get the phone again.
- Get an original leather Apple case. After a few days with a thief and rolling around on the ground, both the phone and the leather on the case are completely undamaged.
- Don't give up even the last hope, and in the worst case, buy a new iPhone at least five days after you lose the old one.
- Many people still don't know about Find My iPhone and don't even have the app installed.
Thank you for the story with a happy ending Little John.
"it is not possible for someone to steal at a concert with an entrance fee of around one thousand." What kind of nonsense is this :)
Otherwise, of course, congratulations on finding it.
What's so crazy about that? One expects that if you shell out a liter for a concert, especially a jazz one and in the theater, there won't be zero who steals, but people who have some level...
I would have written it the same way.
Sure :) Because listening to jazz automatically makes you a saint :) Amused.
What about the world's dictators and other "upper" scum who listened to the classics while murdering half the civilization? Repeatedly..
Music is useless, listen to instinct. And don't cross the road with headphones on..
It's not about whether he's a saint or not, whether he's rich or "poor", but I'd also expect mostly decent people to go to a jazz theater for a liter per ticket, who would hand over such a phone to the theater staff. At least that's what I would do or if it was unlocked, I call the last numbers called or the contact "mom" "dad" and the like....
Very distorted thinking :)
I admit that I would have expected it too, but I'm a realist, so unfortunately I don't expect it even if the concert was for 10k/lupen...
Of course, I'm offended by this statement - because I don't listen to jazz, and I'd probably never go to a concert for a thousand kroner, which now makes me feel like an inferior species and a potential thief :-(
However, I guess I understand the logic: listening to jazz = a guarantee of safety
After all, the serial killer called "Axeman from New Orleans" declared at the beginning of the twentieth century that he would not enter a house from which jazz would be played;-)
No.. the thing is, when you go somewhere where you expect some level of guests, you don't expect someone to steal.
I didn't write anywhere that it can't happen, or that there are only decent people, but that you don't expect any thieves to be there. But I understand... it's easier to take one piece of information out of context without trying to understand the whole.
You are as naive as a kitten.
I wouldn't trust a nation whose president steals pens on business trips abroad :)
There's a bit of something to it. Losing a mobile phone at the main train station among the bezdakas and in Narodni will probably make a difference. In the first case, it is almost certain that the phone will disappear in one of the pawnshops in some ghetto. But on the other hand, even millionaires steal chocolate from supermarkets.
"A lot of people still don't know about Find My iPhone and don't even have the Find My iPhone app installed."
Find my iPhone has nothing to do with the app. For this service to work, it must be enabled in Settings, iCloud, Find My iPhone. Only then can the iPhone be found either through the application or the icloud.com website
Yes, but if you don't have the app installed, you can't track/lock your other devices or your colleagues' stolen phones from your mobile phone :)
Well, that's clear, so I wrote it. But from the article it turned out that if I don't have the application installed it won't work.
Yes, unfortunately, although the fingerprint reader, lock, FMI,…. everything great…. I would just like that when the phone is locked so that it cannot be turned off and therefore remains "on reception" for a few more hours.
Totally agree, I miss this feature there. If someone turns it off and throws it in the trash a few streets away, I'll never find it again. I hope Apple fixes this.
jailbreak allows :)
Jailbreak and then what should I do? Thanks for advice :-)
You just need to find the phone via icloud.com - the author of the text apparently does not even know this basic thing. He goes to jazz for a thousand and the day after the loss he buys a new cell phone for 15-20 thousand, he clearly does not lack finances, but he does have sense - the phrase "it is not possible for someone to steal at a concert with an entrance fee of around a thousand" is clear evidence of human stupidity.
And he still has "Apple enthusiast" written on his twitter, so that's mockery and audacity.
Primitive you first learn to read and then criticize others…
You moron, learn to read: "To my dismay, none of my colleagues who have an iPhone have the Find My iPhone app installed"
Ask your mom to read it to you one more time, slowly. Maybe then you will understand the context in which the sentence was meant :)
Paragraph 4 already mentions it. The fact that he didn't use it right away is logical, who brings a laptop to a concert?
To my dismay, none of my colleagues who have an iPhone have the Find My iPhone app installed
That's probably what he did, as he writes, "with the help of my family, I lock the phone via iCloud.com and find out that it's already somewhere in Nádražní Street on Anděl". Then, in that Tesco, the cell phone was already turned off and the lady turned it on again. Otherwise, you would have come for her alone, wouldn't you?
To my dismay, none of my colleagues who have an iPhone have the Find My iPhone app installed
What we're going to lie to is a stressful situation. I wouldn't be so strict with the court. Phone = price for hw + access to mail, contacts, notes, data storage, passwords.. Each of my colleagues could download the Find My phone application on their background, but a browser for iCloud is enough. But the app is just an interface to the service, which is turned on in the iCloud settings (at least I think)
Well.. in my opinion, it would also be good to have an ON/OFF button on the numeric code so that someone doesn't turn it off just like that.. it would be easier to search.. ;) does anyone know how to practice this? :)
I use an app called "preyproject" and it doesn't even have any icloud.com!!!
I also lost my iphone and advice like having a broken on/off button, not having a number lock, carrying the phone in a case is bullshit, as is the crap about not stealing at a jazz concert! Thanks to the Find My iPhone service, I received the GPS location via email after 3 days, I immediately contacted the police (by the way, the GPS location told me that it was located in Slovakia, in Žilina on the square) and the Slovak police immediately went and found him in one of the two mortgaged. Now I'm just waiting for them to send it back to me. So! Find My iPhone service = neverending like!!!
When I told the police that I could locate my lost phone using GPS by myself, they didn't care and didn't want to help...
I'm surprised that the thief didn't just shoot it for 20% of the price in the bazaar in Spaleny. They are (unfortunately) open XNUMX/XNUMX. I think I even know the author personally, the story fits like an ass on a pot. I'm glad that he didn't suffer and that everything turned out well :-)
When I'm at a concert, I don't read the news, I listen ;-))
No seriously, clique! It's a fact that this solution to find a lost/stolen device and delete data remotely is practical. It happens to me from time to time that I drop my phone somewhere. Finding where it is on the iPad is pretty good. In that small space, of course, not according to the map, but according to the noise that can be triggered from a distance to make the device emit.