After you set up Find My, you can locate a lost or stolen device, or even help a friend find their missing device. You can also share your location with friends, family, and contacts, ask to follow a friend’s location, or get directions to a friend’s location.
How to turn on Find My for your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
Install from the Mac App StoreClick on the price located beneath the app's star rating. Click on the green Install App button that appears. MORE: Best Apple Laptops.Click on the Finder icon at the bottom left of the screen.Click Downloads on the left side of the window.Double-click the downloaded file. The Find My app combines Find My iPhone and Find My Friends into a single app for iOS 13, iPadOS, and macOS Catalina.
- On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, open the Settings app.
- Tap your name.
- Tap Find My.
- If you want friends and family to know where you are, turn on Share My Location.
- Tap Find My [device], then turn on Find My [device].
- To see your device even when it's offline, turn on Enable Offline Finding. To have the location of your device sent to Apple when the battery is low, turn on Send Last Location.
- If you want to be able to find your lost device on a map, make sure that Location Services is turned on. To do this, go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services, and turn on location services.
How to add your AirPods or Apple Watch to Find My
If your AirPods or your Apple Watch are paired with your iPhone, they're automatically set up when you turn on Find My iPhone.
- Sep 26, 2019 The Find My app on Mac also lets you pick from Map, Hybrid, or Satellite views of the map. You can also use the 3D dial to move the map around and zoom in or out. Wrapping it up. It makes perfect sense to have a single app for finding people or devices and sharing your own location. And that’s exactly what the new Find My app is for.
- This app is available on iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and Mac computers. The newest 4.0 version requires iOS 8 or later on the missing device to find. Also, your missing device must be connected to the internet through WiFi or cellular data.
How to turn on Find My for your Mac
- Choose Apple menu > System Preferences.
- Click Security & Privacy, then click the Privacy tab.
- If the padlock in the lower left is locked , click it, then enter the name and password of the administrator.
- Select Location Services.
- Select the Enable Location Services checkbox.
- Next to System Services, click Details.
- Make sure that the checkbox next to Find My Mac is selected.
- Click Done, then return to the main System Preferences window.
- Click Apple ID, then click iCloud.
- Select the checkbox next to Find My Mac.
If you have iOS 12 or earlier, or macOS Mojave or earlier
The Find My app combines Find My iPhone and Find My Friends into a single app included in iOS 13, iPadOS, and macOS Catalina. Here's what to do if you don't have iOS 13, iPadOS, macOS Catalina, or watchOS 6:
- Set up Find My iPhone on your devices.
- To find your device, use iCloud.com.
- To locate your friends and family, use Find My Friends.
- See how to share your location with your family.
The new Find My app combines Find My iPhone and Find My Friends into a single, easy-to-use app on iOS, iPadOS and now macOS.* Find My can help you locate your devices and your friends and family. And now it can help you find your devices — even when they’re offline.
Locate your devices easily.
You take your devices everywhere. Which means you might leave them anywhere. Whether they’re in a conference room or under a sofa cushion, chances are they won’t be lost for long. The Find My app helps you locate not only your iPhone, but also your iPad, iPod touch, Mac, Apple Watch or AirPods.
See all your devices on a map.
Is your iPad at home or back at the office? Use the map to get a full picture of where your devices are — and where a missing one might be. Some devices can also mark their location when the battery is critically low, to help you find them even if they run out of power.
Play a sound to
find your device.
When you can’t find something, but think it’s nearby or around others who might hear it, you can play a sound to pinpoint its location. Your AirPods have a specifically designed sound that can project across a room — and even further.
Put it in Lost Mode.
If your device goes missing, put it in Lost Mode to lock it immediately and start tracking its location. You can also display a message with a contact number on your device’s Lock screen, so whoever finds it can call you without accessing the rest of its information.
Erase it with ease.
Worried that your device has fallen into the wrong hands? You may want to erase it remotely to delete your personal data and restore your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac or Apple Watch to its factory settings. If you retrieve it, you can restore it from your iCloud backup.
Locked down. Automatically.
Activation Lock is designed to prevent anyone else from using or selling your device. When you enable Find My on your device, Activation Lock is turned on automatically. Your Apple ID and password will then be required before anyone can erase your device, or reactivate it.
Find your devices.
Even when they’re offline.
Find My can help you locate a missing device — even if it’s offline and sleeping — by sending out Bluetooth signals that can be detected by Apple devices in use nearby. These devices then relay the detected location of your device to iCloud so you can locate it in the Find My app. It’s all anonymous and end‑to‑end encrypted so no one, including Apple, knows the identity of any reporting device.
Recovery features by device.
iPhone, iPad,
iPod touch, Apple Watch
- View Location
- Play a Sound
- Lost Mode
- Remote Erase
- Activation Lock
Mac
- View Location
- Play a Sound
- Activation Lock
- Remote Erase
Keep up with the
people in your life.
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Invite friends and family members to share location, so you can keep in touch with one another, coordinate around an event or know when a family member has arrived home safely.
Put your friends and family on the map.
When you share your location with friends, you’re all in the loop. Find each other more quickly and stay connected with ease. Share your location for an hour, a day or indefinitely as you see fit.
Get notifications
based on location.
You can set up notifications for when friends and family leave or arrive at a place — making meet-ups a cinch. And so no one’s privacy is compromised, they’ll be notified when you set one up. You can also use parental controls to set up alerts and notifications, so you know when your child has arrived at a friend’s house or departed from school.
Your location data
stays private.
Download Find My Iphone App For Mac
Just like every Apple product, Find My is designed to keep your data safe. When you use Find My to locate your offline devices, your information is protected with a key derived from information unique to your device combined with your device passcode, which only you know. No one, including Apple, knows whose devices were helping you out when you lost your iPhone, or where you were when you shared your location.