I use to be able to ping my son’s iPhone through the Find My IPhone app. Now it seems I can only ping my phone. Did you remove that feature?

I use to be able to ping my son’s iPhone through the Find My IPhone app. Now it seems I can only ping my phone. Is this feature no longer available? It was helpful when family members misplaced their phones while in silent mode.

Posted on Oct 12, 2020 8:30 AM

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Posted on Oct 12, 2020 12:06 PM

That’s what it’s always done. Instead of choosing your son under People choose his phone under Devices. You are looking for the phone, not for your son, who neural system doesn’t run iOS. People can have multiple devices; for example, my wife and I each have an iPhone, an iPad, an Apple Watch, AirPods and a Mac. If I’m looking for one of them I don’t want them all to alert.


BTW, while you masked some of the content in the image, it still contains personally identifiable information. I’ve asked the hosts to delete the image.

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Oct 12, 2020 12:06 PM in response to Kathbc

That’s what it’s always done. Instead of choosing your son under People choose his phone under Devices. You are looking for the phone, not for your son, who neural system doesn’t run iOS. People can have multiple devices; for example, my wife and I each have an iPhone, an iPad, an Apple Watch, AirPods and a Mac. If I’m looking for one of them I don’t want them all to alert.


BTW, while you masked some of the content in the image, it still contains personally identifiable information. I’ve asked the hosts to delete the image.

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I use to be able to ping my son’s iPhone through the Find My IPhone app. Now it seems I can only ping my phone. Did you remove that feature?

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