New iPhone service: Find my iPhone

“Lost iPhone, lost iPhone, where for art thou?”

At Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Fran, Apple’s Scott Forstall demoed a new iPhone app that can help locate your lost or stolen iPhone.

This service is available to all MobileMe subscribers. If you lose your iPhone, you can log into MobileMe and it will show you on a map exactly where your iPhone is.

You can also send a message to your lost iPhone – and it will sound an alert tone, even if it is set to silent. This is helpful to provide contact details for anyone finding your iPhone.

This is great news for anyone always misplacing their belongings… but hopefully, even better as a deterrent to would-be iPhone thieves.

Should your iPhone be stolen, you risk identify theft.  The “Find my iPhone” app can even send a command to your iPhone to wipe the private data on there.  But don’t worry if you find it around the house, your contacts, mail etc can later be restored from iTunes backup.

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For those not a subscriber to MobileMe, a ‘Find my iPhone’ app is also available on the iPhone Apps store. Download Find my iPhone

Features are a little different and MobileMe subscribers should stick with the newer version.

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