Use the Find My app to locate a missing device or item

Learn the different ways you can employ the Detect My app to help find your missing device or personal item, like how to see its location on a map or mark information technology every bit lost.

If you've lost or misplaced an Apple device or personal detail, simply use the Find My app on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch on with the latest version of iOS or iPadOS or a Mac with the latest version of macOS signed in with the aforementioned Apple ID. You tin can also apply the Find Devices or Detect Items apps on your Apple Watch with the latest version of watchOS.

For a misplaced iPhone, iPad, iPod touch on, Apple Sentry, Mac, AirPods product, or supported Beats product, you tin can also use the Find My app on a device owned past someone in your Family Sharing group, or sign in to iCloud.com/find on a spider web browser.

What features are available for your missing device or item

Detect My features and availability might vary by land or region.

iPhone, iPad, iPod touch

  • View Location
  • Play a Sound
  • Mark as Lost (Lost Mode)
  • Remote Erase
  • Notify When Constitute
  • Notify When Left Backside

Mac

  • View Location
  • Play a Sound
  • Mark as Lost (Lock your Mac)
  • Remote Erase
  • Notify When Constitute
  • Notify When Left Backside*

* Feature merely available on MacBooks with Apple tree Silicon.

Apple Spotter

  • View Location
  • Play a Sound
  • Marker as Lost (Lost Manner)
  • Remote Erase
  • Notify When Institute

AirPods Pro, AirPods Max

  • View Location
  • Detect Nearby
  • Play a Sound
  • Lost Mode (Mark as Lost)
  • Notify When Found
  • Notify When Left Behind

AirPods, Beats products

  • View Location
  • Play a Sound

Third-political party products

  • View Location
  • Lost Mode
  • Other features vary by product

AirTag

  • View Location
  • Detect Nearby
  • Play a Sound
  • Lost Fashion (Marking as Lost)
  • Notify When Found
  • Notify When Left Behind

iPhone Leather Wallet with MagSafe

  • View Location
  • Bear witness Phone Number
  • Notify When Detached

Run across it on a map

  1. Open the Find My app.
  2. Choose the Devices or Items tab.
  3. Select the device or item to see its location on the map. If you lot belong to a Family unit Sharing group, you can meet the devices in your group.
  4. Choose Directions to open up its location in Maps.

If you turn on Find My network, yous can see your device or item's location fifty-fifty if information technology's not continued to a Wi-Fi or cellular network. The Discover My network is an encrypted anonymous network of hundreds of millions of Apple devices that can help you locate your device or item.

Don't run across your device?

You lot might non accept Discover My turned on. If your device is powered off, the bombardment has run out, or more than than 24 hours has passed since its last location was sent to Apple, you tin can't run into your device'due south location. Learn how you can still protect your data.

Play a audio

  1. Open up the Find My app.
  2. Choose the Devices tab or the Items tab.
  3. Select your missing device or item, then choose Play Sound. If your device is offline, it won't play a sound until it connects to a network. If the AirTag fastened to your item is out of Bluetooth range, your AirTag won't play a sound until it'south within range.

For 24 hours after your last use, your iPhone will besides notify you if you lot get out your AirPods or Beats products out of Bluetooth range when you lot're non in a significant location like home or work. Learn more than virtually Notify When Left Behind.

Mark your device every bit lost or turn on Lost Style for your item

  1. Open the Find My app and choose the Devices tab or the Items tab.
  2. Select your missing device or item.
  3. Scroll downwardly to Mark As Lost or Lost Mode and select Activate or Enable.
  4. Follow the onscreen steps if you lot want your contact data to brandish on your missing device or item, or if yous want to enter a custom message asking the finder of your missing device to contact you.
  5. Select Activate.

What happens if you activate Mark Equally Lost for your device

Marker every bit Lost remotely locks your missing iPhone, iPad, iPod bear upon, or Mac with a passcode, keeping your information secure even if your device goes missing. You can as well display a custom bulletin with your phone number on the Lock screen, and keep track of your device's location. Larn more nigh how to utilize Mark as Lost.

What happens if you turn on Lost Mode for your item

When you turn on Lost Manner for a personal particular with an attached AirTag or a supported third-party product, you tin share a message with your phone number or electronic mail address. If someone finds your AirTag, they can come across the message by tapping and holding the tiptop of their iPhone or NFC-capable smartphone to the AirTag to open institute.apple tree.com. If someone finds your supported third-party product, they can open the Find My app on their iPhone, iPad, or iPod affect, choose the Items tab, tap Identify Found Particular, and select the item from the list to run into your message.

Erase a device

  1. Make certain you endeavour the steps above to recover your missing device—this can't be undone.
  2. Open the Find My app and choose the Devices tab.
  3. Select the device you want to remotely erase.
  4. Scroll down and choose Erase This Device.
  5. Select Erase This [device].

If your missing device is covered by AppleCare+ with Theft and Loss, you shouldn't erase your device. Instead, file a claim for your lost or stolen device.

What happens if you erase a device

When you erase your device, all of your information (including credit, debit, or prepaid cards for Apple Pay) is deleted from the device, and you won't exist able to track information technology using Find My.

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