L’ost iPhone keeps saying ‘iphone has been seen’

Hey there jacquelineo272,

Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities. We understand you’re iPhone is missing and you’re seeing an alert that your iPhone has been seen. We’ll be happy to help with this.

To verify, where exactly are you seeing this message, “Your iPhone has been seen”? If you haven’t already, make sure you follow the steps in this link:

If your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch is lost or stolen

If you've already reviewed that, get back to us with the info we've requested and we'll go from there.

Take care.

Hey jacquelineo272,

Thanks for that info. To verify, if you look for your iPhone on iCloud.com from a computer, do you get the same message? Test and see with the steps here - 

Locate a device in Find My iPhone on iCloud.com

If not, and you still have questions about locating your iPhone, you can reach out to Apple Support to look further into this with you here:

Contact Apple Support

Kind regards.

I am having the same problem as jacquelineo272. I am using one iPhone to find another. It says that the lost phone is in my house (or in the immediate vicinity of my house) but I can't find it. But when I turn on "notify when found" I get a message that says "your iPhone has been seen" But it doesn't say what this means. So please explain! I have not marked the phone as lost since it appears to be in my house, but should I? Finally, when I first started looking for the phone it showed it had low battery and made a sound, which I didn't hear. But now it says that it is "waiting to connect" to make a sound, which I assume is because the battery is dead. But please let me know what it means when it says that "your iPhone has been seen" and whether that can help me to find it! Thanks

Jacquelineo272, for whatever it is worth I found my phone in my house. The battery was dead and it was not connected to the internet and I never marked the phone as lost. So my conclusion is that the message "your iPhone has been seen" must have something to do with the fact that the iPhone I was using to look for it was in close proximity to the one that was lost. But of course this is just a pure guess! Hopefully the Apple people can give you a more definitive answer -- including why if you click on this message it doesn't explain what it means! Good luck!