If you’re a MobileMe user, Apple has managed to add some nice functionality to the service recently. However, you’ll need the latest version of iPhone OS, Mac OS X, or the MobileMe Control Panel on Windows to take advantage of them.
Updating your iPhone (or iPod touch, for that matter) to iPhone OS 3.1 gives a couple added features to the “Find my iPhone” feature of MobileMe. When you send a message to the phone along with an alert sound, the sound will play at full volume, regardless of the ringer volume setting—handy if it has fallen under furniture or been stuffed in a lost and found box. You can also set a passcode lock remotely, in case you don’t usually have one set, which could render the phone and its data useless to a thief. When enabling Find my iPhone, you’ll also be warned that the feature doesn’t work when Fetch New Data is set to Manual.
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