How to search out your misplaced iPhone — even when it’s off

Apple’s Find My app has been a really helpful (and reassuring) function, permitting you to find a misplaced (or stolen) telephone to be able to retrieve it (or contact the authorities, if that’s safer). With the enlargement of Find My to a wide range of different objects, particularly through Apple’s AirTags, it’s turn out to be much more helpful. And now that iOS 15 brings with it the potential to find your telephone even when the battery has run out or it’s been turned off, the utility of Find My has turn out to be even larger.

(Note: it’s also possible to use the Find My app to assist with your personal safety — to share your location with people and ship recurring notifications of while you go away and arrive. You can discover instructions for setting that up in our article “How to use iPhone’s location tracking.”)

If you’re new to the iPhone or have by no means arrange the Find My app but, right here’s the way you begin:

• Go to your settings, faucet in your title, after which on “Find My.”
• Tap on “Find My iPhone.”
• Toggle “Find My iPhone” on. If you might have upgraded to iOS 15, it’s also possible to activate “Find My network,” which can allow you to discover your telephone even when it’s offline. “Send Last Location” will ship the placement of your iPhone to your Apple account when the battery is about to die.

And that’s it! After that, should you can’t discover your iPhone, then you’ll be able to observe it both through the use of the Find My app on a Mac (or one other iPhone, when you have one) or on any browser by going to iCloud.com/find and signing in utilizing your Apple ID.

If you’re utilizing the net model, you then’ll see a inexperienced dot that locates your iPhone. Select the dot after which the circled “i” (for info), and also you’ll be given the selection of getting your telephone play a sound, erasing it, or placing it on “Lost Mode.” In “Lost Mode,” you’ll be able to enter a telephone quantity the place you might be reached and a message (“Please return this phone asap!”). After that, the telephone might be locked till you re-enter its passcode.

If you’re utilizing the Find My app, you’ll get mainly the identical options (besides in a extra aesthetically pleasing kind), together with map instructions on easy methods to get to your telephone.

And sure — should you’re utilizing iOS 15 in your iPhone, it is possible for you to to find it even when it’s run out of battery energy or has been shut off.