How to use the iPhone find feature for your devices?

Tips & Tricks 8 years since publication

8 years ago, Apple announced the feature to find the iPhone, but it was limited and later at the end of the same year 2010 it provided it free of charge to all users with the release of iOS 4.2. Currently, the feature has become one of the basic things that all companies have transferred in their devices - and then they say that only Apple is the one who transmits the benefits - the feature enables you to track your Apple devices whether it is lost or stolen provided that the other phone is connected to the Internet. Of course, the majority of Apple users know everything about it, but in this article we target the new user who may see the icon and do not know how to benefit from it. We also tell you how to delete Apple Pay data from your lost device.

How to use the iPhone find feature for your devices?

Before anything, activate Find iPhone on all your Apple devices, so you can track it even through the browser on your computer or even through the Find iPhone app from any other iPhone.

If you have family sharing enabled and everyone shares their locations, you can track it from one place

Turn on the feature to find an iPhone or an iPad

Go to Settings> Apple ID> iCloud, and from the bottom of the menu press Find iPhone, then activate it.

How to use Find iPhone on your browser?

You can use the Find iPhone feature by going to the site iCloud.com And do the following:

◉ Go to the site iCloud.com Through your computer browser, then log in to your account.

◉ Go to Find iPhone

◉ Click on All devices or all devices and then choose the device you want to track.

You can zoom in and out the map for close tracking, or you can choose a model from the menu at the top right, and this is an explanation of the function of each:

1

Play sound or play sound even if your device is on silent or vibrator. You can choose this option if your device is lost at home or near you.

2

Lost mode. If you use this option, you will be asked to enter a phone number that will be displayed on the screen of your lost device, so that anyone can call you if they find the phone. An audible tone will also be played, so that attention is drawn to your lost phone.

3

Erase If you lose hope of getting your device again, and you are worried about the data and files on it, you can delete everything remotely.

How to use the Find iPhone feature on your iPhone or iPad?

Through your iPhone, you can track any device linked to your account on the iPhone by following the steps below.

◉ Open the Find iPhone app on any of your other devices.

◉ Tap on the name of the device you want to track.

◉ Click on Actions at the bottom. You have the same three options as the previous one.

How to remotely delete all of your credit accounts from Apple Pay

If you are using Apple Pay on your stolen or lost device, it is also preferable that you allow everything on it remotely through a web browser from anywhere. And that by taking the following steps:

◉ From any browser, go to a site icloud.com Then log in to your account.

◉ Tap on Settings.

◉ Under the My Devices section, click on the device you want to delete Apple Pay from. “You should see the Apple Pay logo next to any device on which the service is set up.

◉ Click Remove All

Thus, you cancel Apple Pay from your lost device. We know it is No one can enter with his own fingerprint To run this service but the matter is not without its potential risk. Therefore, we recommend that you investigate safety and remove everything from the phone in case it is lost or stolen.

Have you used the iPhone finder feature to track a device before? And did you know how to delete Apple Pay data from it? Let us know in the comments

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red carpet

I bought a used iPhone 13 Pro Max from someone on a very well known device selling website. I paid him for the device but the phone disappeared at the shipping company and was never found. Of course the seller had logged out of his iCloud account and did a factory reset.
My question is: Is there any way to find it given that I have the serial number and IEMI number.
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YOUSEF

First, I thank you for the article and for listing all the features.

I would like to briefly tell a story that happened to me. I am a long-time iPhone user and also for the Mac system, but a while ago I was on a business trip outside the city and confiscated my iPhone, so I decided to buy a phone without mentioning the name of the company, but it was on Android and due to its cheap price I did not hesitate to buy it in order to be able to communicate with Others, while I was outside the city upon my return, and in the first week my car was stolen, and my new phone was in the back seat of the car in the charging mode .. Do you know that I found the car the next day after the Lord of the Worlds succeeded? He stopped it and then noticed the presence of the phone and then turned it off. The feature that really helped me is that when I tracked the phone, he drew all the routes that the thief took until he turned off the phone and this feature is that the Android system keeps the GPS system always running in the background to let you know even if the device was closed at the last point As for the iPhone, if you have turned off the GPS system, you will not be able to know that unless you send an order to shut down the device, and at that time the GPS system will work. But what if the thief turned off the device before I did this ??

For information only, I am currently an iPhone user, but this is a point that is calculated for the Android system efficiently
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waterghazal

Yalit Apple devises an offline method to operate this feature
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Louay

Frankly, the topic is very weak and the explanation is never sufficient
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Sinan the Most Merciful

Very important and very useful topic Long live the hands
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Ismail Nasreddin

One of the most important uses of the feature for me ... is to find Apple devices when they disappear in the house while they are on silent mode ..🤓😲

Just send an alert from iCloud and you will find the device skips the procedures and calls for help 🤗

Thanks for the valuable article, Professor Mahmoud, as we come back.

Greetings to everyone
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    Light • O God, forgive my parents and siblings

    Very cool idea 👍🏻
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Mohammed Jassim

Thank you. I have the perfect plan, I remove the device without a password, so that he can open it and put the internet in it so that I can track it after I put the internet on! This benefit is that you leave the device without a password or fingerprint! Of course, this movement is dangerous in some matters! But how beautiful it is that he sees the device without a password so that he can open it and rejoice at what is in it, then the shocking response comes By locking it from a distance! How beautiful the joy then follows the crash! 😁 Will regret it!
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Salah lemgoud

Peace be upon you and the mercy of God is an excellent and useful application. As for you, Yvonne Islam, I ask you to go. I am back. Thank you.
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Fahad Al-Huwaiti

Nice application, but if it continues to find the iPhone, even if it is not connected to the Internet, Apple will have made the biggest step.
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Abu Muhammad

There is no application for Lee Day Yansa cell phone in the car
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Youssef Al-Fahd

How can I track my devices with Google Maps instead of Apple Maps?
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Abdul Salam Club

A very special effort you rewarded a lot
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Suleiman Mohammed

Theft of the device is a waste of the thief's time. He will not be able to do anything unless he wants to definitely sell it to a repair shop.
As for its uses, it is wonderful and has been known for a long time, and it happened that my device was lost and I sent the mobile number to call me whoever found it. As for the apple accessories, you will usually face difficulty because there is no internet connection or location determination.
But it reminded us of the days of jailbreaking or escaping from the Apple Prison and launching a program from Cydia that sends mail to the thief's face and his location and surprise the police with this kind of accurate and effective notification.
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    Mahmoud honor

    Honestly I used to use iLostFinder and it was one of the best tools I have used.
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Staff Assaf

After the fingerprint became available and Apple software developed to protect the password from hacking, and now the face print, it became difficult for the thief to do something. In the UAE, in order to sell your phone, you have to present your identity to the shop owner, and you have to put the iPhone open just because the shopkeeper knows that you do not know the password and want to sell it.
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    Mahmoud honor

    Well done. If all the sellers have such a disclosure. It would be different. I am since I am specialized in iPhone devices. Some come to me with phones that have a password or are locked by Apple. I advise him to contact the owner of the phone and return it. Because he will not benefit.
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Ali Hussein Salem Saleh Al-Mirfadi

It seems you have no topic
This service has been known for a long time
But it has its flaws
It is if it is
There is no internet and the iOS iPhone cannot be unlocked or tracked, the second flaw
He can use the mobile even if it has an Apple ID account, and they use a method to open the account
The phone is used
The third problem if the battery is dead
It only sends the last location within 24 hours, and this is what I mentioned in the article. You must turn it on. Send the last location, but only send your location to Apple within 24 hours.
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    branches

    It seems you have two problems
    Perception problem because the author of the article said it is aimed at new users, and this is a good gesture from him
    Secondly, there is a problem with the technology (and also with perception), because most of the faults that I mentioned in the comment are incorrect, and the correct ones were mentioned by the author of the article. To overcome them, always turn on the data.
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Amr Yousry

One of the most important advantages of the iPhone, I really did not use it before, but I know its importance and the way to benefit from it. Wonderful and useful article, may God reward you well 😍😍👍
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Light • O God, forgive my parents and siblings

A very important feature
I wondered from myself how I had not tried it, or at least why what I had read about it in a long time
But I think that this feature will not be useful to me if the Internet was not available when I lost my phone, for example :)
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    Ali Hussein Salem Saleh Al-Mirfadi

    Isn't it sure it works if the thief connects to the internet directly, the iPhone sends the location where the thief is located, and when you delete the iPhone, the iPhone is deleted when it connects directly to the Internet, and I explained to my YouTube channel
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    Mahmoud honor

    At least if it came down should. And you switched off the device remotely. He will never benefit from it, so he will find himself obliged to call and return the phone in exchange for a monetary reward.
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    Light • O God, forgive my parents and siblings

    I will try it, God willing, the cellular data internet is always activated when I go out of the house, so the feature will not be disconnected from me, and God willing, the mobile will not be lost and I do not need the feature😣🙌🏻
    And God willing, even if the internet is cut off, the secret code is very difficult, as it is from a group of long letters and numbers, meaning there is no benefit to the thief from my mobile
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Nasser

The mobile companies must find a solution to find the device without the net
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    Staff Assaf

    The solution is available from service providers, so the service provider can know the serial number if you give it to them identical to the one they have, and they will return your phone even if the phone was moved outside your country
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Ayman

My watch was stolen and so far the clock is off.
Unfortunately, I lost hope in her and with the Find My Phone service
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