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Q: Solution to still use Find My iPhone for "old" iPods?

Hey everyone,

 

I manage a few K12 classroom sets of iPods (generation 4) and I foolishly updated all relevant apps in the iTunes library specific to our iOS project...I should have read, yes, but am more than frustrated that Find My iPhone no longer functions with iOS 6 as this "old" generation of iPods is not allowed to update to iOS 7. This was a piece of our security on these devices which no longer functions. And unfortunately the file version for Find My iPhone no longer exists in my iTunes library after I updated it and updating the file in Apple Configurator seems to have sealed my fate...

 

Just hoping that I have missed something obvious or that someone has a nice work around (like a copy of the "old" Find My iPhone file)...

 

Thanks.

iPod touch, iOS 6.1.4

Posted on Dec 3, 2013 7:56 AM

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  • by varjak paw,Helpful

    varjak paw varjak paw Dec 3, 2013 8:09 AM in response to learnmobile
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    Dec 3, 2013 8:09 AM in response to learnmobile

    I don't know what you mean by the "file version for Find My iPhone". Are you referring to the Find My iPhone app? If that's what you mean, that app is not necessary for your iPods to be trackable. That app only goes on iOS devices you wish to do tracking from. All you need to do to be able to track your iPods (to the extent they can be tracked, which being WiFi-only devices is limited to locating the WiFi router the iPod is connected to) is set up Find My iPhone in the iCloud settings, and that works back to iOS 5. You can then track the devices via icloud.com on any system with a modern web browser.

     

    Regards.

  • by learnmobile,

    learnmobile learnmobile Dec 3, 2013 9:09 AM in response to varjak paw
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    Dec 3, 2013 9:09 AM in response to varjak paw

    Thanks for feedback--the only thing that I am confused about is that the sets that have the app I can see via icloud.com and the set that no longer has the app I cannot see and I know they are online. Perhaps in removing the app it removed the iCloud settings that I had set on the devices already.

  • by varjak paw,Solvedanswer

    varjak paw varjak paw Dec 3, 2013 9:16 AM in response to learnmobile
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    Dec 3, 2013 9:16 AM in response to learnmobile

    I doubt that removing the app would remove the iCloud settings as well, though I can't say it's impossible. The app is absolutely not necesssary, though.

     

    Regards.

  • by lllaass,

    lllaass lllaass Dec 3, 2013 9:23 AM in response to learnmobile
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    Dec 3, 2013 9:23 AM in response to learnmobile

    You said "Perhaps in removing the app it removed the iCloud settings that I had set on the devices already."

    No, hoavine/deleting the app on the device has nothing to do with "finding" the device either via iclould.com or a device that has the FIndMyiPhone app.

     

    Try:

    iCloud: Troubleshooting Find My iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac