Anti-theft phone application

The iGotYa application allows stolen iPhones to capture images of people who are not using their phones and send them to their email address.

Xie Danhong, 33, from China, is surprised to see a taxi driver appear in his e-mail box, thanks to a new application that allows him to capture images of people who deliberately unlocked the phone. mine.

Ms. Xie lost her iPhone on a taxi during a business trip in Beijing last week, and did not expect to find it again, according to the China Daily.

However, within six hours of the iPhone being lost, Xie received an email attachment from a taxi driver who apparently was trying to unlock the phone.

She immediately sent the picture to her blog, and reported it to the police.

Although still unable to retrieve the phone, Xie said that he only wanted to recover the contacts and photos of the 9-month-old's love life.

Earlier, some people got their handsets back on the iGotYa application, according to China Daily.