How to find a lost iPhone?

Try to locate your lost iPhone with Find My:

When you notice your iPhone is gone, use Find My to try to find it. Moreover, if it is feasible, do so before starting to cover a particularly broad area.

This reduces pointless searching while also giving you the opportunity to find your phone before someone else does. Alternatively, you’ll be able to see where your iPhone is going if someone else already has it.

You can use the Find My app on another Apple device you own, such as an iPad or MacBook, or you can use Find My by logging into iCloud through its website.

Mark your iPhone as lost:

If Find My is available, marking your iPhone as lost is the best option too. When you mark your iPhone as lost, various things happen.

Firstly, the iPhone is first secured with your passcode, making it impossible for anyone to access it.

Moreover,marking your phone as lost also disables Apple Pay. This means that even if a thief manages to figure out your passcode, he/she wont be able to make any purchases.

It enables you to put a personalized message and phone number on the Lock screen. This makes it much simpler for any would-be good deeds to return your phone to you rather than leaving it at any old lost and found.

How to activate Mark As Lost on iPhone

1. Open the Find My app on one of your Apple devices or by visiting the browser version of iCloud
2. Tap Devices
3. Tap your missing iPhone
4. Scroll down and tap Mark As Lost
5. Follow the on-screen steps to enter a custom message with contact info
6. Tap Activate

File a police report

After your device disappears, it’s a good idea to call the police. Officers can thereby keep an eye out for any misplaced phones reported to the agency. Additionally, it can be necessary for replacement claims with your carrier or AppleCare+ claims with Apple.

To do this, get in touch with the police agency in charge of the neighborhood where you lost your iPhone. According to our observations and a sample of readers, what the police department does next when given “Find my” information depends on training and tech familiarity.

File a Theft and Loss claim

If your AppleCare+ plan includes Theft and Loss, you can submit a claim to have Apple replace your iPhone.

You must go to Apple’s iPhone Theft and Loss Claims page to do this. Before submitting the claim, you should also confirm that you’ve listed the device as lost, and it’s a good idea to file a police report just in case.

You will need to remotely wipe your iPhone if you are unable to locate it within a reasonable amount of time or if Find My can’t help you locate it.

Erase your iPhone remotely

All your information is removed from your iPhone after you erase it. This includes any media that isn’t iCloud-backed up. Therefore, it is the greatest approach to guarantee that no one may use your iPhone to access your personal data.

How to remotely erase your iPhone:

When you delete data, it’s no longer accessible through the iPhone interface, but it isn’t erased from iPhone storage. Therefore, to remove all of your content and settings from storage, erase iPhone.

1. Open the Find My app on one of your Apple devices or by visiting the browser version of iCloud
2. Tap Devices
3. Tap your missing iPhone
4. Tap Erase This iPhone

Using an Apple Watch to find your iPhone:

1. On your Apple Watch, swipe up from the bottom of the screen to bring up the Control Centre.
2. On the left-hand side, you’ll see an icon of an iPhone with curved lines emanating from it: this is the ping button. Tap it.
3. At this point, the iPhone which is paired with this Apple Watch, assuming it’s reachable, will ‘ding’ so you can hear where it is.
4. Keep pinging the phone until you find it.

Using a HomePod to find your iPhone:

1. Say to your HomePod: “Hey Siri where’s my iPhone?”
2. If the iPhone is close enough, Siri will hopefully say, “I found [name’s] iPhone near by, should I make it play a sound?”
3. Say yes and listen out for your iPhone.
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