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I was playing with “Find My Phone” feature on iCloud.com recently and I noticed that it was using the wrong time. The Lost Mode email I checked my iCloud account My device time and region settings Judging by the time in the email, iCloud / FMF is ignoring my account and device settings and using Cupertino Time instead of Manila Time. Manila (Philippines) Friday, 1 August 2014, 07:50:00 PHT UTC+8 hours Cupertino (U.S.A. - California) Thursday, 31 July 2014, 16:50:00 PDT UTC-7 hours Corresponding UTC (GMT) Thursday, 31 July 2014, 23:50:00  

Just playing around with the erase iPhone feature of Find My iPhone on iCloud.com Remember: If you delete an iOS7 device via iCloud or Find My iPhone, Activation Lock will be active until you input your AAPL ID & PW or you remove it from your device list in iCloud.

Find My iPhone (or iPod or iPad or Mac) is baked into iOS / OSX. It’s a great way to locate your device if you’ve misplaced it or if it get’s stolen. In this post I will show you how to turn it ON. Settings > Privacy Location Services Make sure Location Services is ON. You can turn off location services access per app but make sure Location Services itself is ON Scroll to the very bottom of the list and make sure Find my iPhone is ON as well Go back to Settings this time select iCloud   Scroll to Find My iPhone and make sure it’s turned ON In iOS 7, Find My iPhone is beefed up and hopefully makes it harder for thieves to erase and sell your device. Find my iPhone works via Location Services (GPS) for the location and Internet (Cellular data or WiFi) for the commands sent to the device it’d be a good idea to have both on. You CANNOT locate your iPhone if Location Services are OFF. With the Find My iPhone App or using iCloud.com (on a desktop browser) You can loc...