Find my iPhone, sometimes also called Find my iPad or Find my Mac when referring to the same app running on those devices, is a free service offered by Apple as part of iCloud. With it, you can track your iPhone, iPad, or Mac if it ever gets lost or stolen, lock it to make sure no one else can get into it, play an alert sound to help you find it, and even wipe it remotely if you’re sure you won’t be getting it back. It also enabled Activation Lock, which stops anyone without your password for using your device if it’s ever stolen.

To use Find my iPhone all you need is the free app, iCloud.com, and this guide!

How to set up and start using Find My iPhone

Before you can start using Find My iPhone, you’ll need to set up the service. As long as you’re signed into your iCloud account on all your devices, it’s as simple as flipping a switch. After that, you can start tracking any devices linked to your account.

• How to enable Find My iPhone on iPhone and iPad
• How to enable Find My iPhone on your Mac
• How to access Find My iPhone via the web
• How to access Find My iPhone on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

How to use Find My iPhone with Family Sharing

Family Sharing is available on devices running iOS 8 and up. Not only can you share purchases with other family members in your household, you can also keep track of each other with Find My iPhone. It works pretty much the same way as tracking your own devices does. As long as the person you’d like to track is a member of your Family Sharing group, you can always track them via Find My iPhone.

• How to use Find My iPhone with Family Sharing

How to remove an iPhone, iPad, or Mac from Find My iPhone and iCloud

If you’re upgrading to a new device and are either getting rid of or passing down your old one to someone else, you’ll want to make sure that you disable Find My iPhone and remove your iCloud account. This does two things: it allows the new owner to link the device to their own iCloud account without any trouble, and it ensures that they don’t have access to any of your information in your iCloud account.

• How to remove an iPhone, iPad, or Mac from Find My iPhone and iCloud

How to turn off Find My iPhone remotely and bypass Activation Lock

If you’ve already gotten rid of an iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac and forgot to turn off Find My iPhone, there is a way you can remove it from your account remotely. This is the guide you want if you sold your device and the new owner tried restoring and can’t get past Activation Lock. Just keep in mind that it doesn’t work unless you know the iCloud password for whatever account the device is linked to.

• How to turn off Find My iPhone remotely and bypass Activation Lock

How to find the owner of a lost or stolen iPhone

What happens if you find an iPhone, iPad, or Mac left behind at a coffee shop, park, classroom, or bar? Find my iPhone is great not only for helping you keep track of your own devices, but helping you return a lost device to someone else.

• How to find the owner of a lost or stolen iPhone

How to get more help with Find My iPhone

If you need more help with Find My iPhone, or just want to learn even more, hit the links below!

• Find My iPhone news, tips, tricks, and more
• iMore iCloud forums

Dwelp is a challenging connect the dot puzzle game that is available for both Windows Phone and Windows 8 devices. The Windows Phone game includes 100 puzzle levels where you are tasked with linking all of the same colored dots.

There is no time limit to solving the puzzles but the fewer moves it takes, the better. Dwelp is available for low-memory Windows Phone and after playing Dwelp over the past few days, it comes across as a fun game to pass the time with. Graphics are minimal but nice and game play is challenging in that you have to think out your moves in advance or you’ll find your pursuit of a solution stalled.

Messages launched with the original iPhone as “SMS”, because that’s all it did at the time. Apple had Safari, so they didn’t build an old-school WAP browser and it turned out an old-school WAP browser is what MMS used and needed. So, Apple built one and, once carriers stopped freaking out about the potential bandwidth, added it to the app. Then Apple did an end-run and announced iMessage, integrated alongside MMS and SMS in the Messages app, and running on data completely outside carrier control. They brought it to iPad and Mac. Most recently, Apple enhanced group messaging, added instant sound-bites, selfies, and with SMS-relay brought the carriers to iPad and Mac as well.

Now we want to know what you’d like to see next?

• Allow Messages to be secured by Touch ID or Passcode
• Extend VIP from Mail to Messages
• Allow a confirmation before sending soundbites, selfies, or location
• Combine FaceTime and Messages together into a single super-app
• Support for stickers
• Allow favoriting of a message
• Per-person read receipts in group messages
• iMessage for iCloud web app
• iCloud Drive file attachments
• Smarter search and filtering to find messages

If Apple asked you what you wanted in Messages for iOS 9 and OS X 10.11, what would you tell them?

Whether you’re just “in it for the commercials” or you’re cheering on a team, you can watch from mobile if you have to

We can’t all be comfortably seated in the best spot in the living room with a huge plate of wings and a threatening glare toward anyone who dares to even think about touching the remote control this Sunday night. For reasons passing understanding, Super Bowl Sunday is not a national holiday yet. As a result, you may have obligations that put you somewhere that doesn’t have the big game playing. The good news is there are mobile options if you’re able to watch. The bad news is, if you want to watch live, there’s not a lot of them.

The Mobi S-Line Case is a slim, form-fitting TPU cover that wraps around your Galaxy S4 to protect against drops and scratches while providing an enhanced grip. It adds very little bulk and is completely flexible, making installing and removing the case very easy. Comes in 8 colors, too!

The BlackBerry sponsored MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS Formula One Team ended the 2014 season on top with 16 wins, 18 pole positions, 12 fastest laps and 31 podium finishes throughout the 2014 season between Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg plus, eleven one-two wins in a single season which, broke the previous record put in place by McLaren in 1988.

Lewis Hamilton won the first ever Formula 1 Russian Grand Prix at the Sochi Autodrom that pretty much guaranteed the MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS team winning the F1 Constructors’ Championship for Mercedes-Benz, and finally, Lewis Hamilton claimed the FIA Formula One World Drivers’ Championship trophy for the second time in his career.

Now, it’s time to get back to work and as such, the MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS Formula One Team has now unveiled its 2015 Formula One World Championship challenger, the F1 W06 Hybrid, ahead of the first day of pre-season testing at the Circuito de Jerez in Spain. The official opener of the 2015 season is the Formula 1 Rolex Australian Grand Prix that takes place at the Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit on March 15th.

Read More »