Not just Apple, but most OEMs, OS developers, app developers and others are constantly innovating to bring something to today's mobile devices so they can be useful to their owners. Thus, use your iPhones and iPads for safety, not to put you to danger.

An app in iOS devices called Find my Phone is intended for owners to track down a lost device like Mac, iPad, iPod Touch or iPhone by tracing the last place it was network connected. Recently, this app feature led to some incidents where an individual decided to take care of a crime on their own - in which they tracked down the suspect to make them pay.

This is highly discouraged. Owners of iOS devices should not expose themselves to risks, and must report to the police their found stolen devices. Doing all the work in getting back the device, and letting a culprit pay can be dangerous. In most cases, the last thing the criminal would do is to pay. Many incidents like these happen and are collected by the New York Times.

According to DA George Gascón of San Francisco, some have been successful in handling things like this; but others were hurt. There are some people who really would risk their lives to get their smartphones back. However, lives are far more important than phones. Lives are too valuable to be lost, and if they are, they cannot be recovered. Smartphones can be.

If personal data is what seems to be valuable, they can be stored in the cloud. Mobile device owners should always have a backup copy of their device data in the cloud in case they lost their device. In that way, they will only lose the handset, which they can always replace.