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2011-07-14, 15:04

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Originally Posted by pscates2.0 View Post
I'll just assume that the short, simple answer to my initial question is "not very". It'll get you in the ballpark, but it might not tell you which table in which room it's on?
Correct. Even assuming good GPS reception, you'd still have an accuracy of several meters, so you could be in the entirely wrong room. Given that the iPhone was inside a house, there probably was poor (if any) reception, and it used cell tower trilateration instead; this puts typical accuracy in the ballpark of dozens of meters.

(This applies to anything location-based on iOS — and, generally, smartphones/other mobile devices at large — , not just to Find My iPhone.)
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