Found iPhone 4S

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I found an iPhone 4S on my way home today. Unfortunately its got a passcode and it's in Airplane mode!

Can I drop it off at an Apple store? Or should I restore it I believe that will wipe everything then I could leave it charged to see if they call and then arrange for collection.

The last option is to drop it at a Police station except I won't be able to get to one until Wednesday.

Just wondering what I would prefer if I lost my iPhone, to get it back immediately but wiped (restore from backup?) or however long the process takes with the police for tracing owner?

UPDATE: The 4S was handed in to police on the 13th more details in Post #38
 
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kilohawk said:
On the lock screen;
1.slide the slider to unlock
2.press emergency call
3.dial your home number (so not to call emergency services :P ) --then press call
4.a message will come up asking you to disable airplane mode-press disable.
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Good call, its out of airplane mode :)

I'll leave it turned on otherwise if I don't here from them I'll drop it at the police station Wednesday.
 
kilohawk said:
don't mean to double post, but you might miss it if i don't :P

have you tried putting the sim in your iPhone? i see the apple sign in your sig, it makes me think you're an apple fan ;)
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Yeah I thought about doing that but now its out of Airplane mode I don't think I want to try and snoop by putting their sim in my phone. They basically have until Wednesday to get in touch before it goes to a police station though so that should be ample time.

deadite66 said:
now it's connected to 3g can't they turn on gps via mobileme and track you down?
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Yeah, if they're a smart cookie they will have told iCloud to alert them by email when it picks up a signal then hopefully I'll here from them soon :)
 
kilohawk said:
most insurers require that you report the phone missing within 2 days or even 24 hours of you realising it is missing. if you've ever done this, you'd know. i would have paid someone >£100 if they offered to just give me my iPhone back when i lost it.
i think whoever lost the phone would rather you snoop than let them go through the hassle and weeks of insurance negotiation!
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I don't feel comfortable putting there sim in my phone tbh. All they need to do now is call the phone anyway.

I'll give the police a ring later on my break to let them know as well just to cover myself then continue with the plan of handing in on Wednesday if I haven't heard from them.

I feel this is more than reasonable on my part.

Burned_Alive said:
Tried calling "Home", "Mum" or "Dad" using Siri? It should be able to still make the call with the phone locked and passcoded.

Same applies for text messages or emails.
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Siri is off as mentioned in an earlier post.
 
Had something come up that meant I would be busy Wednesday so skipped lunch and dropped the phone off at the nearest Police Station.

Discovered you can't receive unclaimed handed in mobile phones as they could contain personal data, didn't know that!

They said they would get the IMEI and contact the network provider and register the serial on reportmyloss.com so fingers crossed the owner will be reunited with his iPhone 4S.
 
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