Eight (8) Best Apps to Find Lost or Stolen iPhone

Heya! Best and Top 8 Apps to Find Lost or Stolen iPhone are Described in This Article.

As mentioned in *Best Ways to Track Lost or Stolen iPhone* that finding lost iPhone these days is easier than before. Thanks to third-party applications that are used instead of iCloud to make it possible.

Tracking or finding lost or stolen iPhone is possible without a backup of your personal data video, photos, contacts and apps.

Gone at the days when iCloud alone is the only option available to track lost iPhone, it will be a nightmare when your iPhone get lost, especially when you are in a situation where by you don't recently backed up your personal data and information. Therefore, it is wise to keep certain apps handy that can help you in an unfortunate event of lost iPhone.

Without much Ado, this article gives the top five (5) apps to track, find or recover your iPhone in case it get missing or stolen.

Six (6) Third-party Apps to Track Lost iPhone

In this section, I will be describing third-party apps to track or recover your lost or stolen iPhone. However, iOS native apps will be highlighted below.

Prey Anti Theft

This iOS app is a third-party app built to help you in tracking your missing or stolen iPhone. It makes it perfectly easy and convenient to locate your lost your iPhone, iPad, or MacBook. 

You can connect and see all your devices in its single user-friendly interface for a comfortable and convenient experience. Prey Anti-Theft includes better features than that of both Apple’s Find My iPhone and Google’s Find Device for Android.

However, here is how it works. Prey Anti Theft takes a picture of the person holding your phone, gives an alert when the phone enters or leaves a specific location, disguise itself to encourage the thief to interact and get caught, and do a lot more.

Prey Anti-Theft App is available for download on the iOS app store. Download it and set it up for future benefits.

Device Locator

This app works in the sense that it helps you to know your family or friends’ location which can be used to find your lost device (iPhone, iPad and Mac computer) as well. In addition, it allows tracking an unlimited number of devices from a single account.

Device Locator makes your missing or stolen iPhone to sound an alarm, show its location on a map, send a message to your device, request a location update, and collect location information on every switch of cellular towers.

Device Locator is available for download on Apple app store.

Fone Home

This is another third-party iOS app that makes it very easy and convenient to recover a stolen iPhone or iPad using its many features. Also, it have some exclusive features that will help to track unlimited devices using its one account.

Fone Home has the feature of storing 100 last locations, which means you get a comprehensive location history of your stolen iPhone.

In addition, there is one particular feature in the app that I'm so in love with - Lost Mode. It offers high-accuracy location updates of your iPhone once every minute. Also, it can snap a photo of the thief and play a loud siren as well.

Fone Home is available for download on Apple app store.

iHound

This is another third party iOS app use in tracking your stolen iPhone.

iHound is free - a security program that alerts you when your iPhone is connected to another individual's computer. It will also track down the location of where your iPhone is being used.

Download iHound app for iPhone on Apple app store. Also, you can download the Android version here.

Navizon app

Navizon is another best iOS app to track missing or stolen iPhone or iPad. The app is a hybrid positioning system combining GPS, Wi-Fi and cellular triangulation techniques to give the best service.

Navizon app calculates the geographic location of wireless device by analyzing the signals from nearby Wi-Fi access points and cellular towers and comparing it against a database of known data points. a new option called Locate-by-SMS allows you to locate your lost iPhone by just sending an SMS text message to it.

You can simply download the Navizon app from app's website.

My Found Cast

This app is a patent pending technology - is the internet's first lost and found service that allows you to create custom Wallpaper and embed information into that wallpaper so when somebody finds your device touch, they will know how to return it.

MyFoundCast gives all members a unique tracking ID which is automatically registered in your lost and found database. you may register the serial number of any iPad or iPhone. 

Download My Found Cast app on Apple app store simply by searching the name on the app store.

Best iOS Native Apps to Find or Recover Lost iPhone

Find My iPhone

Find My iPhone is an app from Apple designed specially to helps in finding lost, stolen, or misplaced iPhones and iPads. 

This app shows the location of the lost device on a visual map based on the latest location of your iPhone. Find My iPhone app also have “Lost Mode” that locks down the iPhone or iPad and displays a custom message too.

In addition, this app also play a sound, lock down your device, display a custom message, view recent location history, get driving directions to the device, play a sound and remotely wipe the complete device as well.

Find My Friends

Find My Friends is another iOS native app from Apple that lets you find your friends and family members.

This app lets you to find your lost or stolen iPhone as well – using a simple trick. The trick is to ask one of your friends or family members to track your iPhone to find its location using their device. Learn more about how to use this trick in this article.

Find My Friends have some amazing features which they include: sharing your location, following your friend’s location, hiding your location and many more with just a single switch in a user's friendly interface. You can also set up location-based alerts to notify you about your contacts’ locations and vice versa.

Read Also "Best ways to Track, Find and Recover Your iPhone when Stolen, Lost or Misplaced without using iCloud".

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