Find my Apple iPhone
How to find or track my iPhone
Losing an Apple iPhone can be a frustrating and stressful experience. Not only is it a cheap investment, but it also stores valuable information such as contacts, photos, and messages.
In this article, we will share some useful tips on how to locate your Apple iPhone, protect your data and take steps in case you cannot recover it to prevent a stranger from accessing your data or selling the device.
To use Apple's "Find My" service, you must have configured this service on your Apple iPhone before you lost it. During device setup for the first time, it asks if you want to activate it.
To locate your Apple device you can do it from any computer, phone or tablet of other brands accessing from the browser, for it follows the following steps:
Table of Contents:
- First method
- Find iPhone from an iPad, Mac, or iPhone
- What to do if I can't find my iPhone or I didn't set up "Find My"?
- User questions and problems
First method:
Estimated time: 5 minutes.
1- First step:
Access the https://www.icloud.com/ from a computer, tablet or from another mobile device website and enter your username and password.
2- Second step:
Click on “Find my iPhone” or “Find my device”.
3- Third step:
If you have several Apple devices, you can see the location of all those that have the “Find My” service activated. Click on “All devices”, a list of your Apple devices will be displayed, among which you can find the Apple iPhone, click on the image to see where it is located.
4- Fourth step:
A map will appear indicating the point where your iPhone is if it is connected to the internet, otherwise in the location of the last time it was connected.
5- Fifth step:
Click on the point where your iPhone is located and then click on the information icon to display the available options.
6- Sixth step:
Once inside you can perform several actions, such as sounding the device at maximum volume even if it is silent or vibrating.
You can show a message on the Apple iPhone screen so that the person who has found the device will contact you, a sound will sound to notify of that notification.
You will be able to erase all the data of the device to maintain your privacy in case you can not recover the lost or stolen device.
