Find My iPhone!!!
This weekend we had a great idea: Driving from the U.P. of Michigan to Minneapolis and back for our good friend Lori Harder’s 30th Birthday celebration. We had a blast, it was a lot of fun and well worth the trip.
But I left my phone at our hotel!! Now, in my defense I was struck down with the 24 hour flu and could have cared less what I left at our hotel. Upon arrival back home I grabbed my laptop (still not feeling too well I might add) and opened up my MobileMe Account, then headed for the Find My iPhone option.
If you have an iPhone and a MobileMe account, you have to set up the Find My iPhone option. I almost didn’t, figured there wouldn’t be a need.
Consider this: Not everyone that works at a hotel is trustworthy. I lost a nice laptop in Beverly Hills in a room that only had two room key registrations since we had left the room. That’s right, two people in, but my laptop was simply MIA.
The hotel staffer we talked to about my phone in Minneapolis initially wasn’t going to help us until I locked the phone down, set a new pin and displayed a custom “lost my phone, please call XXX-XXX-XXXX” message. Suddenly, upon realizing this newly found Apple Device was useless perhaps, our friendly hotel staffer slipped into helpful mode. My phone is being overnighted to the U.P.
Go set up the Find My iPhone option. You’ll need it one day when you aren’t expecting to.
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