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Re:What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone by lorenzhs on Thursday August 04, 2016 @04:04AM (#12224131)
Why stop there? It could broadcast some (authenticated) "I'm a stolen iPhone" message to other iPhones nearby. Maybe a Bluetooth beacon that any iPhone with Bluetooth enabled could pick up and report to Apple servers. I'm not sure how technically feasible this is but at least in high-density urban areas this might work.
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Re:What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone by k-mcgrady on Thursday August 04, 2016 @05:43AM (#12224436)
>> "It could broadcast some (authenticated) "I'm a stolen iPhone" message to other iPhones nearby."

Why not have Siri yell 'Im a stolen iPhone' full volume with the volume switch disabled.

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Re:What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone by stordoff on Thursday August 04, 2016 @10:59PM (#12229791)
You'd probably have to make sure that it only activates if the phone is actually stolen, not just lost. I found an iPad in the street once, took it home, found the owner's details and took them to come pick it up (turns out it was some sort of sale team, and one of their staff put it down and forgot to pick it back up).

I'd've been _extremely_ unimpressed if the device suddenly started proclaiming it was stolen.

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Re:What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone by jhoechtl on Thursday August 04, 2016 @07:32AM (#12224801)
To much power consumption when the phone would likely be already out of the public. But certainly an option
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Re:What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone by mavhc on Thursday August 04, 2016 @07:39AM (#12224831)
Could just phone the police, "Hello I'm an iphone, I am being stolen, my GPS coordinates are ..., and here's a photo of the face of the thief"
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Re:What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone by AJ007 on Thursday August 04, 2016 @09:52AM (#12225457)
Or it could just shock the person holding it until they drop it and run away http://youtu.be/tMa-lwxXWjY

On a serious note, none of these options seem desirable if the Apple account is compromised.

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Re:What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone by k-mcgrady on Thursday August 04, 2016 @10:49AM (#12225863)
Maybe a good Apple Watch use case. As soon as the phone is stolen from you you can activate the alarm using your watch and now the thief is running down the street with an iPhone screaming that it's stolen. I'm guessing they would dump it because they won't get far before a cop hears it if.
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Re:What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone by reitanqild on Thursday August 04, 2016 @04:41AM (#12224261)
Good point.

OTOH: This opens up a whole new avenue of pranks to pull on iPhone users.

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Re:What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone by pluma on Thursday August 04, 2016 @05:16AM (#12224356)
Better idea: make it so iPhones always broadcast an "I'm an iPhone" message to all nearby phones.
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Re:What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone by StavrosK on Thursday August 04, 2016 @06:40AM (#12224646)
Isn't that feature already implemented in the owners?
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Re:What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone by jawilson2 on Thursday August 04, 2016 @08:51AM (#12225133)
In 2008
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Re:What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone by swiley on Thursday August 04, 2016 @06:31AM (#12224605)
"I'm an iPhone Sent from my iPhone"
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Re:What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone by NEDM64 on Thursday August 04, 2016 @08:20AM (#12224986)
Why stop there?

Why not make the iPhone blow in the face of the stealer?

/s

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Re:What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone by pc86 on Thursday August 04, 2016 @02:23PM (#12227466)
Thief
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