How To Track Your iPhone?
Losing an iPhone is afflicting. It can end up being a security risk because there’s an enormous amount of personal data at stake. Now a day’s phones are more than a store of personal photos, videos, and music library, it contains an incredible amount of sensitive information which can be exploited and misused. Losing your iPhone and fear of information abuse isn’t fun. The following are some methods that can help you to track your iPhone is lost.
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Enable Find My iPhone
Apple provides you the built-in support to track your iPhone using an app Find My iPhone which exists in settings. But firstly, you need to configure it in order to locate your phone in case of missing or stolen. It’s free and can be accessed by signing in to icloud.com by another iOS device, a Mac, or a web-connected computer when your phone is lost.
How to set up Find My iPhone?
- Navigate towards Settings app
- Tap on your Apple ID the top of Settings
- Scroll down and tap iCloud.
- Scroll down and tap on Find My iPhone
- Turn on Find My iPhone switch.
- Enable Send Last Location, it will keep your phone’s last location update on iCloud before the battery dies out.
How to use Find My iPhone when the phone is missing?
- Go to icloud.com from a web browser or launch Find My iPhone app on another iOS device or Mac.
- Log in with your iCloud account — login account should be the same iCloud account that has been logged into on your lost iPhone.
- Tap on All Devices menu at the top and select your missing phone.
- The app starts tracking your iPhone location on the map. You can zoom in or out on map controls to track your phone closely.
As you see the location of your device, you can choose to do the following actions by taping:
- Play sound, it will make your phone ring (even if it’s currently muted) so if your iPhone is nearby, you can trace it with the sound tune.
- Activates ‘Lost Mode’ by taping on it. This locks your device and still tracks it. It will ask you to Enter a contact number where someone who might find your iPhone can reach you.
2: Track iPhone through Family Sharing
Family Sharing can help track your missing iPhone. It helps the members to know each one’s device location. You can ask any member in the Family Sharing group to trace your iPhone via Find My iPhone app. The member can also sign in to icloud.com from the web to locate the missing iPhone.
3: Use Google Timeline to track iPhone
If you had turned on Location Services of your iPhone, Google’s Timeline will record all the locations of your device. But Google Timeline records the location only when the iPhone is connected with the internet. For tracking your phone you need to do the following steps:
- Sign in to that Google account that has logged into your I phone
- On location map tap Today or select date.
- Scroll down and see the last reported location of your missing iPhone.
Along with the location, it shows the time of your last location. Through which you can take a clue and that helps you can track your lost iPhone.
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Originally published on https://www.goistik.com on 20 January 2020.
