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If Find My isn’t turned on there’s not much you can do to retrieve your iPhone, but you can take some actions to protect your data. If you aren’t using Family Sharing your family member or friend can use the Find My app on your device.

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You will need your family member’s Apple ID and password when you go through the steps to lock or erase their device. If you have set up Family Sharing you will be able to locate a family member’s device using Find My as per the steps above.

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How to find a family member’s, or friends’, iPhone If you have second thoughts you can click on Cancel Erase, you’ll need to enter your password again. Tap or click on Erase and then enter your Apple ID password and click/tap on Erase. Since there’s no option here to add your phone number or contact details here you could add them yourself, but be careful about sharing too much information with the people who may have stolen your iPhone! The iPhone data won’t actually be erased until the iPhone connects to WiFi or a cellular network,Īs with the leave a message option above, if you go through the steps to erase the iPhone you’ll also have the option to add a message that will be shown on the iPhone if someone recovers it. If you do recover the iPhone you will be able to recover it from the backup (that you hopefully already have in iCloud). Click or tap on the Erase This Device option and then on Continue. If getting your iPhone back looks completely hopeless then you should erase the device. We have a guide to setting up Find My iPhone at the end of the article. Chances are you will have set it up when you first started using your iPhone, so it’s worth checking whether you can use the service. Whether you’ve left your iPhone in the back of a cab, think you might have left it in the office, or, worst-case scenario, it’s been lifted from your pocket, you should be able to use Find My to track it down – as long as you set up Find My in the first place.

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If you don’t have access to another Apple device such as a Mac or iPad, you can even access the Find My service via a browser on a PC – just go to and log in with your Apple ID and password. So you can use another Apple device – for example a friend’s iPhone. Here’s how to set up Family Sharing.Īssuming you’ve already set up Find My, your iPhone will be able to broadcast its location to you. It can even keep track of your family’s devices if you are all linked via a Family Sharing account – this means if you lose your iPhone you can easily locate it via your partner’s device if they are linked via Family Sharing. The Find My service also works for your iPad, Apple Watch, AirPods and Mac, so you can keep track of all your Apple devices. It is easy to set up, and quite possibly the most valuable app on your iPhone (since iOS 13 the app has been called Find My, but was previously called Find My iPhone).

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How to find your iPhone with the Find My appįind My is a free service provided by Apple.

Turn on Personal Requests for the appropriate device(s).

The service also requires iCloud Keychain to be set up on the device you are using. You’ll need a device with the Home app on it, so an iPad if you have one. It is possible that you will need to turn on Personal Requests for this to work, in which case follow the steps below.

Say yes and listen out for your iPhone.

If the iPhone is close enough, Siri will hopefully say, “I found iPhone near by, should I make it play a sound?”.

Say to your HomePod: “Hey Siri where’s my iPhone?”.

You might be thinking you could equally call your iPhone from another device – which is true, but assumes that you have the audio on and that you don’t have multiple other devices that will start ringing when your iPhone is called! You can use your Apple Watch or a HomePod to ping it, if you have either of those devices. But there’s a quicker way: if you think you have just misplaced your iPhone at home, in the office, or at any venue where you are currently residing, you can ‘ping’ your iPhone to get it to play a sound so you can locate it. My daughter’s first piece of advice, when I told her I was writing this article, is that if you have lost something tidy up because then you’ll find it. There are two places you might have left your iPhone.

There is a section below that explains how to do this. However, you might be able to use the information provided by Find My to help the police with their enquiries. (He claimed he lashed out in self defence after being stabbed by the mugger, pleaded guilty to culpable homicide, and was jailed for six years.) There was even a case of a man tracking down and killing the person who stole his son’s iPhone. There have been cases of people attempting to recover stolen iPhones using Find My iPhone and being hurt, or worse.

What you should never do is attempt to retrieve your iPhone if you think it has fallen into the wrong hands.