What a day it was yesterday.
On reaching home after my litle one's Dr appointment,I was mortified to find out that I had lost my precious iPhone. My iPhone is like my most prized possession - from checking mails,FB,listening to music,reading the news,playing games,taking countless pictures & videos of my kids,googling the world around me,creating little to do lists,finding the best price for stuff, to playing lullabies fro my kids - I do everything with this li'l device.And to realize that I've lost it,I felt as if I've lost my best friend. Even though I'm not a gadget freak,I really love how some of these little devices make our lives easier & keeps us linked with the outside world. More than anything else, it was a birthday gift from my hubby last year.I tell you that really hurt :((
Coming back to my lost phone,I called up the Dr's clinic & asked them if it got lost in their place & they replied in the negative. Kept calling my phone number & it went straight to voicemail which meant only one thing - someone has already taken it. Amidst all that angst, I remembered that I'd set up a feature in the iPhone(that is common to all iOS devices) which would locate the device if lost as it works on GPS technology. For this we need to have installed that software & linked the devices that we use. Right when I'd gotten it, I'd the good sense to have linked my iPhone to our iPad and also set a passcode without which my phone cannot be opened. So at least whoever took it cannot see my phone's contents. This feature also allows me to remotely wipe off all data should the phone be never found. When I clicked the Find my iPhone feature on the iPad- out popped a map showing where my phone was at that time - at the drop off spot near the train staton where I'd dropped my hubby off after the Dr's visit. I remember that I'd taken off my jacket because it was warm & looks like my phone had fallen off then.
Playing detective I could see exactly where it was at that very moment in real time- but technology can only help me so much.Whether I'd still find it by the time I drove back there- was anybody's guess. It was a case of so near and yet so far :(( Even if I did find it - cos it was a drop off spot,chances are another vehicle would have run over it already !!! Informed my hubby that I'd lost the phone & that I was going to drive back to see if it was still there. All he said was "Its ok if the phone's gone but drive safely". A strange reassuring calm descended upon me.
It was already gone - all I could do was make one final attempt to see if I could find it and so I drove back to the same place. As I feared - I could see no phone when I was nearing that spot - it was just empty. I asked an elderly gentleman sitting in a bench close by if he'd seen or heard anything & he was none the wiser.Dejected and heart broken,I was walking back to the car when a worker in a big truck across the street called out to me asking if I'd lost my phone.I couldn't believe my luck & it was the sweetest moment when he came across & handed me my phone.He said that he'd almost run over it when he was backing up..Thanked him & my lucky stars & came back with a happy grin on my face.I couldn't believe that there not a single scratch on my phone even though it had taken a nasty fall onto the hard concrete road.I'm totally sold on the fact that it is made of hardened glass (more specifically aluminosilicate glass for the scientifically minded) - oh boy - some glass that was ;))..
I'd never know if that man had meant to keep it but aleast he gave it to me when he saw me. I've always believed in the phrase- "what belongs to you will come back to you if it was meant to be"..Was it luck,was it remaining calm & focussing on solving the problem or was it brilliant technology that showed me where I should look for it or the integrity of that man who gave it back which resulted in me getting my phone back or simply an interplay of all these factors? I don't know..
So my friends if you are an iPhone user like me and reading this article - please do link your phone to another iOS device even if its on another person's phone,iPad or Macbook - u never know when u'd be playing Sherlock Holmes to locate a missing phone.Here's the link how you do it - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/find-my-iphone/id376101648?mt=8
And remember to keep that feature turned on ;)
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