How to set up and use the Find My App, formerly known as Find My iPhone. Also how to check the status of Find My and what to do if it has been enabled on your device and locked you out of your Apple or iCloud account.
For related information, see our iCloud guides.
For more help with iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, iPod Touch, or Mac, see Apple troubleshooting & how-to guides.
If your Apple device is broken and you need to send it in for repair you must disable Find My iPhone so the technicians can work on it. This is one of many reasons why you may want to disable Find My iPhone on your broken device. Question is, how can you disable Find My …
If you forget to disable Find My iPhone on your device before you sell it, send it in for repair, or give it away you can turn it off remotely. This means you can switch off Find My from another device, even if you no longer have it with you. If you don’t disable Find …
Some Apple phone owners have reported issues when trying to switch off Find My iPhone on their devices, causing great frustration. It only affects a small number of owners, but no matter how many attempts they have they just can’t disable the Find My tracking system. Find My iPhone does not respond, or it says …
Find My iPhone is a brilliant feature that allows you to track your missing device. As you probably know, you can track the device if it is switched on, and has a cellular or WiFi connection. But what if your device runs out of battery, or is turned off? Or if your iPhone has the …
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Find My Device, formerly known as Find My iPhone, is the security system that makes sure your device and its data are secure if it is ever lost or stolen. In normal circumstances, you should always keep Find My switched on. There are only a couple of reasons that you would turn off Find My: …
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Since the iCloud lock was introduced in 2013 I have guided hundreds of clients who wanted to know how to remove Activation Lock without previous owner helping them. Most clients had no idea that the used iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch they bought was Activation Locked until they tried to set it up and they …
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Over the last decade of owning and supporting Apple products, I have had to track down many lost devices using the Find My app. Without this useful tool, I would not have found my own iPhone when I lost it in the cinema. Apple’s Find My app is the new combination of 2 older apps …
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