{"id":3172,"date":"2012-08-08T13:50:56","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T13:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.sellcell.com\/blog\/?p=3172"},"modified":"2019-04-12T11:07:27","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T11:07:27","slug":"finding-a-lost-cell-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/finding-a-lost-cell-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding a lost cell phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/SPR-N11082_673w_08_08.jpg\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-3173\" title=\"Professional woman on cell phone.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/SPR-N11082_673w_08_08.jpg\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-3173 lazyload\" title=\"Professional woman on cell phone.\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20180%20120%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/SPR-N11082_673w_08_08.jpg\"><\/a>David Pogue, the technology columnist for the New York Times, lost his iPhone while traveling on an Amtrak train a day or two ago but was able to recover it when police discovered it in the backyard of a suburban house in Maryland.&nbsp; Pogue was able to make use of the application known as Find My iPhone, which uses GPS signaling to enable users to look up the location of their iPhone via a computer or some other device.&nbsp; He was then able to tweet that location to his 1.4 million followers on Twitter, who turned the search for Pogue\u2019s stolen cell phone into a viral phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>For those of us who for some reason do not have more than a million followers on Twitter, however, are there ways for us to recover a stolen or lost cell phone?&nbsp; The good news is that the answer to that question is yes, although the great majority of solutions need us to have taken steps ahead of time.&nbsp; A good first step is having some kind of cell phone recovery application, such as Find My iPhone, installed.&nbsp; While such an application will not work if the battery is dead or the phone is turned off, if it is powered on it will tell you where it is.<\/p>\n<p>If the phone is lost but you are certain it is somewhere within earshot, such an app also allows you to make the phone emit a loud noise for several minutes.&nbsp; If you are resigned to having lost it forever, the app can let you remotely erase all data to protect your privacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Pogue, the technology columnist for the New York Times, lost his iPhone while traveling on an Amtrak train a day or two ago but was able to recover it when police discovered it in the backyard of 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