iPhone Tip: Set an “If Found” note as your iPhone’s Background Picture
Dec 13, 2009 - 7 Comments
Here’s a great tip from Apple regarding your iPhone… set a custom background image on your iPhone with a message like:
If found, please return to
Your Name
1234 Infinite Loop
Cupertino, California 95014
415-555-1212
it’s definitely relying on the goodwill of others, but if you ever lose your iPhone it just might work to get it back!
[ tip and iPhone image via Apple ]
Of course, it also might give some nefarious individual your home address and the knowledge that you can afford an iphone and may have other goodies in there worth acquiring. I think it’d be better to just have an alternate contact number on there instead, or at least a work address instead of home.
Probably a better idea to put your work info on there – since you’re on vacation and have lost your phone. That’s obviously what John did in the example!
Even better… just write “If found, please return this phone to the nearest AT&T or Apple store.”
Any AT&T or Apple store will be able to figure out who the phone belongs to and get it returned to the owner, without giving some stranger your personal info.
Or… Put “please return to nearest Apple Store for free itouch reward! Once they hand it over saying they found it they won’t give it back to the dude after he tells them there is no reward. They should have transmitting GPS tho, Apple could charge large for finding lost or stolen iphones
There is an app to do that. It is called Wallpaper Maker. You can choose a picture of your choice, and optionally add your name, phone number, and email. You can then put the information in any corner of the picture that you want. To get info on the right, add spaces before it until it it is where you want. You can then save the pic w/ info and apply it as your wallpaper.
Good thing to live in a small town.
Lost it in the pub and a couple of minuets later a girl came up and told me a dude where looking for me because he thought he had my Iphone (he did) got it back, offered to buy him a drink, he denied, night continued.
(had a girl as a background not my name or anything personal.)
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