Would-be criminals don't seem to be learning their lesson: if you steal an iPhone, cops will use the Find My iPhone app to track you down. And if you're really dumb, you may get caught in an embarrassing manner. Case in point: according to CBS, two cops found a stolen iPhone after they heard it ringing inside the pants of a 14-year-old suspect. more ›

An iPhone-wielding cop used his Find My iPhone app to track down a thief in Midtown in under 30 minutes on Thursday. After a cashier at Tuci Italia was robbed of her phone around 7 p.m., officer Robert Garland, who the Times describes as "an avid Apple consumer—he and his wife own iPhones, iPads and Macintosh computers," put her Apple ID into his Find My iPhone app and saw the victim's phone was a few blocks away. "I told her when I walked in, 'I'm going to find your iPhone,' " Garland says, in what will surely be a line in a Liam Neeson movie next year. more ›

iPhones are super-popular with consumers and thieves, so it's nice to know that not all iThefts include bloodshed. Some actually include happy endings—especially thanks to Apple's built-in tracking software. In the latest "Find My Phone" success story, a 24-year-old woman helped by a clever officer in midtown was able to get hers back within hours. more ›

Police are seeking two suspects who allegedly shot a man who refused to give them his iPhone in the Bronx. The incident occurred last week, on January 18 around 6:30 p.m. when a 23-year-old man was walking on West 190th Street near Grand Avenue. more ›

A 15-year-old Jersey City boy was arrested last night in Lower Manhattan for stealing an iPhone on the PATH train in a PAPD operation that involved six plainclothes officers. PAPD spokesman Al Della Fave tells us that the boy was observed riding back and forth between Exchange Place and the World Trade Center stations for just over an hour looking for targets, and just after 8:10 p.m., he allegedly grabbed a rider's iPhone before being detained at Exchange Place. iPhone thieves: those six people on the train probably are watching you! more ›

Apple is tearing (divorced) families apart! A judge yesterday pushed a mother to swap her 10-year-old son's iPhone for a low-end flip-phone after she "entered the father's home and took residency with the iPhone" using Apple's video conferencing software FaceTime. Apparently Fordham adjunct Annmarie McAvoy had taken to hours-long FaceTime conversations with her son while he was at his father John Hannigan's home. more ›

Earlier this week we became huge fans of New York Philharmonic music director Alan Gilbert when he stopped a performance of Mahler's Ninth Symphony just before the end to shame an audience member whose iPhone wouldn't stop marimba-ing. And we weren't the only ones—the internet quickly filled with praise for Gilbert's agressive actions. But what of the offending iPhone owner? How's he doing? Well, now we have his side of the story. And the answer is not well! more ›

Don't forget to turn off your phone when you go to the New York Philharmonic...because if it starts ringing they will stop the show. No, really! At last night's performance of Mahler's Ninth, a not-so-gentleman's iPhone (using the "marimba" ringtone) went off multiple times during the piece's final movement. Finally—just 13 bars before the end of the score—Music Director Alan Gilbert lost it and cut the orchestra: more ›

Drunk driving is no laughing matter, but you know what is? iPhone apps that claim they they can tell you if you're too drunk to drive. Here's a much simpler test: if you're even considering using your phone to calculate your BAC, you're too drunk to drive. Not convinced? Fine, read about how it "works." more ›

After the NYPD arrested 141 people in a four-day iPhone/iPad sting a few weeks ago, a Brooklyn business owner noted that one of his employees who was arrested "doesn't speak much English." Commissioner Ray Kelly dismissed the idea that any of the arrested were unlawfully detained. "It was clear that the devices had been stolen, in their minds," Kelly said. But now a Brooklyn teenager who was arrested claims he was entrapped by an undercover officer, telling the boy that the phone was purchased legally and that he needed to feed his daughter. "He was really persistent," 19-year-old Rob Tester tells the Brooklyn Paper. "I felt sympathy." Lesson learned: never do anything about the misfortune of others. more ›

The NYPD announced that a man on a 4 train had been arrested "after he allegedly lifted an iPhone from a plainclothes decoy police officer’s backpack Sunday," according to WCBS 2. more ›

As you've probably noticed from all the stories this year, there has been a serious rise in subway crime this year. Specifically the theft of high-end electronics like iPhones. But a new report out of the NYPD shows that it isn't just underground where thieves are targeting pricey gadgets, it is everywhere. Half of the nearly 16,000 robberies in the city between January and October involved electronics, mostly cell phones. That "makes electronics the single most stolen property type, surpassing even hard currency" according to the report. more ›

Thieves have been targeting passengers on mass transit for their smartphones, and iPhones in particular are very popular. Lately, iPhone owners have been using apps to recover their phones: The police announced that a man whose iPhone was stolen on a B47 bus on Monday got his phone back by using "Find My iPhone." more ›

Time is running out before we're all enslaved by our robot overlords to build a giant laser beam for eradicating the rival robot planet Node 49 (look it up) but the MTA is letting us feel superior one last time by voting for the most useful subway smartphone apps. Preview all 42 applications here, and vote for your favorites from now until January 11, when two Popular Choice winners will be crowned, along with the overall winner. Our money is on the app that keeps rats from crawling on your face. more ›

Did you purchase an iPhone 4 during Tenebrous Friday or CyberSad Monday? Are you prepared to endure a metaphor for a paroxysm of global debt? A man's iPhone 4 (not the schmancier 4s) began "emitting a significant amount of dense smoke, accompanied by a red glow" on an Australian flight last Friday. According to ABC, everyone was fine, and the "red glow was extinguished successfully." It was only a matter of time before Siri got sick of answering our questions and took the easy way out. more ›

A 31-year NYPD veteran who battled his way back from cancer collared his last criminal in Times Square yesterday. Detective Nelson Dones saw 26-year-old Fernando Francis allegedly swipe an iPhone from an undercover detective on the N/Q/R platform. "It was closing the door the way I would have loved to close the door on my career," Dones told DNAinfo. "I wanted to be proactive." A colleague says Dones, who worked for the Transit Police when it was a separate bureau, is skilled at spotting subway thieves: "He has the eyes. He has the X-Ray vision." He also apparently has a voice "just like Al Pacino." HOO-AH. more ›

Last week, a Queens teenager was stabbed to death as a gang of other teens attempted to rob him of his iPhone. Police have now arrested 17-year-old Stephon Huffman for the botched robbery and murder of Patrick Dixon. more ›

Tired of tracking down each and every food truck on their own individual Twitter account? Yeah, it's hard to keep track of all the Korean tacos and cupcakes and fancy grilled cheeses cruising around out there. That's why Tweat.it was invented, and now, you can finally get it on the go. more ›

A Queens teenager was stabbed to death yesterday as a gang of his peers attempted to rob him of his iPhone. According to the Daily News, 17-year-old Patrick Dixon was exiting a bus with a friend around 11 a.m. on 142nd Street around Foch Boulevard, when five teens approached them and attempted to take Dixon's iPhone. A struggle ensued as Dixon fought back, and one of the assailants stabbed him in the neck. The teens then fled the scene, leaving the phone behind. Dixon, a student at Thomas Edison High School, was pronounced dead at Jamaica Hospital. more ›

Wall Street Occupiers weren't the only ones staying up last night—Apple fans across the city were up in the rain, too, excitedly counting down the minutes until the official release of the new iPhone 4S at 8 a.m. this morning. more ›

Earlier this week, the nation turned its attention to the ruthless criminal who stole a woman's iPhone 4 in Ozone Park. Thanks to iGotYa, an app that snaps a photo of whoever is attempting to unlock the phone and emails it to the owner, 23-year-old Queens resident Brian Chattoo was identified by the police and arrested. Hopefully, everyone with an iPhone will download this application so the NYPD can focus on the cases that really matter. more ›

Police say they are looking for this iPhone thief who took a photograph of himself. The theft occurred on Monday night, when a 31-year-old woman was walking in Ozone Park around 8 p.m.: According to the Daily News, "A man bumped into her, snatched her black iPhone from her pocket and ran away, cops said. But when he later tried unsuccessfully to unlock the phone, it automatically took a picture of him and emailed it to her, thanks to an application called iGotYa." more ›

A woman between Inwood Hill Park and Isham Park was violently attacked and robbed by a group of teenagers in the middle of the afternoon yesterday, a brazen act that left neighborhood residents shaken. more ›

According to the Post, a 27-year-old man was killed over an iPhone: "The victim, whose name was withheld pending family notification, was shot in the back at about 9 p.m. in the lobby of a Sheepshead Bay apartment building on Ocean Avenue near Avenue W... Cops said the victim was arguing with two men shortly before he died. Two friends of the victim said the fight was over an iPhone." more ›

Hold onto your iPhone! Just in time for our new cellphones on the subway world order comes word that it isn't your imagination—crime on the rails is going off the rails. According to NYPD crime statistics obtained by NBC, crime in the subways is up 16.6 percent since the same period last year. more ›