Location SMS - Locate your device with a text, even when it's offline 📱🌎

@ugur2nd You need to text your own phone number not the authorisation code. For example text your phone number 'Where are you? 9230' or whatever your authorisation code is set and it will reply with your current location.

@abetancort Apple's Find My iPhone can only locate the device when it has an internet connection whereas Location SMS requires no internet so you will always be able to find your device even if it's offline. To prove that I can not collect information about your location, you can use a tool like this Android App I found https://play.google.com/store/ap... to see what data is being sent and received via the internet on each app. Using that tool you can see that Location SMS never sends any of your information outside of the app via the internet so there would be no way of us viewing your location, contacts, text messages etc and misuse that information.

@jamie_turner You system need to have the movile signal, in Europe if you have movile signal you have a 98% chance that you have 3G or better Internet coverage. If someone were to try to swap the sim (impossible to do in an iPhone or iPad with a password without making it unusable) for one that does not have Internet (which is very unlikely that anyone can find one nowadays in Europe) in the moment it connects any Internet gateway you would receive a notice and you would have the device located and have control of your iOS device (making sounds, locking it, putting a permanent message on the screen, deleting it) without the other party being able to interrupt you. If you were to send the wipe command, it will irremediably delete the iOS device no matter what the person holding it tries to do it will totally erase and reset to factory by itself). And if you have activated (default) Find My iPhone in your device, to reactivate a deleted one, he would need your AppleID, password and a unique token securely that Apple’s delivers securely to your other authorized devices. By the way Apple´s Find My Phone will, if so desired by the user - disabled by default, record the last location of the iOS device before loosing connection or being shutdown.

@jamie_turner Maybe for other phones or markets where the Internet coverage is not so widespread. I have not looked into Google own location product since I don’t have an android phone in my home.

@gonzalo_morales Sorry no, iOS has restrictions preventing me from creating something like this

Oh that's a shame. Anyways, congratulations, I think it is a very cool idea.

@augustusonyeka Thank you, I plan to translate the app soon to reach a wider audience