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The other day my friend lost his iPhone. He tried to use my Android to find it, but Apple's site just says it's unsupported. Really thoughtful of Apple to make
by Canada 8y ago
The other day my friend lost his iPhone. He tried to use my Android to find it, but Apple's site just says it's unsupported. Really thoughtful of Apple to make that feature unavailable right when users need it the most.
- swiley 8y agoIt’s kind of insane that they do that considering the majority of phones are androids. It means many people are almost certainly going to need your laptop which really limits how it can be used.
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- trickstra 8y ago> considering the majority of phones are androids. This is one of the ways they are trying to change that.
- goda90 8y agoIt doesn't make sense that making it harder to use a feature of an iPhone would make more people want to use an iPhone. It seems unlikely that someone sees someone struggle to find their lost iPhone via an Android device and think "This makes me want an iPhone more"
- isostatic 8y ago"I'm glad I have an iphone, this android is rubbish"
- ChrisSD 8y agoI doubt it. Apple don't care about having a high percent of the market. They're happy so long as they have the high end in their pocket. That's where the big margins are. They're happy to leave the high volume lower end to the likes of Samsung.
- rukenshia 8y agoif you're talking about the iCloud website, switch to "Desktop Mode" on your phone and it will work for the "Find my iPhone" application on there. source: lost my phone and went full panic mode when it said "unsupported" and fiddled around with it for 30 minutes on an android phone
- lscotte 8y agoI don't find this all that surprising, sadly - inside the Apple reality distortion field there are only Apple devices.
- heavenlyblue 8y ago>> reality distortion field Don’t attribute a seeming idiocy to something which is a clear sign of malice.
- invaliduser 8y agoLet's put an emphasis on the fact that this cannot be a technical limitation, as everyone else in the world manages to build websites that work on most devices, including android. The appleid is a security nightmare anyway. I used to use an account, associated to an email I own, with a password I know, and still I can not log in, because it keeps asking the insecure "personal questions" that I never answer, because [generic privacy statement] and because I use a cryptagraphically secure password manager. As I did not save the personal questions I answered when signing up (tbh I probably just put garbage, as those are usually never asked when you know the password), and now I just cannot access it. That's right, I own the email address and I know the password, and yet I cannot access my account. However, knowing who was my best friend when I was a teenager, or what was the name of my first pet are questions, in spite of being known by dozens of friends or acquaintances, that Apple requests as security measures needed to trust me as the owner of the acount. Having them on the phone provides zero help, 1 year later, I still cannot access it. It's definitively lost, and I feel happy I do not have any important information stored on the apple cloud.
- Elte 8y agoDamn, it seems I really dodged a bullet here. I was recently asked for security questions logging into a company account (iOS management account). Whoever created the account only jotted down the answers to two of the questions. It asked for precisely these two, and I was able to change the other without answering the third..
- yohannparis 8y agoI'm sure your password manager can save Security Questions? In mine I can add as many field as I want, so for every login that require security questions I answer them with 50 characters gibberish, and save them for later use.
- colejohnson66 8y agoThen when someone calls and they ask for the security question, the attacker just says it’s jibberish and they let them through. Choose 4 random words, not 50 random characters
- throwaway45901 8y agoI just found out all new iCloud accounts require your mobile number for 2FA. A friend is in a study abroad program and broke his iPhone. He bought a new one but can’t access his account because he no longer has a “trusted device” (his broken iPhone) to verify his login and since he’s overseas, can’t get the fallback SMS. He basically has to wait until he returns.
- kwhitefoot 8y ago> since he’s overseas, can’t get the fallback SMS Why?
- jen20 8y agoMany service providers don't support roaming at all - especially on pre-paid accounts.
- tnorthcutt 8y agoProbably opted to buy a local SIM instead of using the one from his home country
- cbhl 8y agoMany service providers silently fail to deliver SMS when one is roaming internationally, especially if not on a post-paid account
- kwhitefoot 8y agoI think this must be a US thing, never heard of it in Europe.
- throwaway45901 8y agoHe doesn’t have international roaming.
- kwhitefoot 8y agoI'm not sure that there is a subscription in Europe that doesn't include international roaming. At least I can't remember seeing one here in Norway. I suppose Europeans travel from country to country a lot more on average.
- jcul 8y agoI've been using an Android app called XFi locator for the last couple of years whenever my wife loses her iPhone. Really simple and works perfectly.