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How can I find my lost iPhone with a dead battery?

I have miss placed my iPhone. I called it this morning and I couldn’t hear it close by. We have since tried calling and it goes right to voicemail so I’m guessing the battery is now dead. Is there a way to call up the history of the device location through find my app?

iPhone SE, iOS 14

Posted on Dec 24, 2020 4:22 PM

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Posted on Dec 24, 2020 4:30 PM

In order to see the last location, "Send Last Location" would have to have been turned on in Settings > [username] > Find My > Find My iPhone in the device before it was lost. The description in Settings for that is "Automatically send the location of this device to Apple when the battery is critically low." The location would not be available if the device is offline because someone turned it off or because it doesn't have an internet connection, but only if it is off because the battery was low. The additional requirement is that the location is only shown for 24 hours. If all of those conditions are met you would see the last location in Find My. There is some information on that in https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204233


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Dec 24, 2020 4:30 PM in response to Melinda429

In order to see the last location, "Send Last Location" would have to have been turned on in Settings > [username] > Find My > Find My iPhone in the device before it was lost. The description in Settings for that is "Automatically send the location of this device to Apple when the battery is critically low." The location would not be available if the device is offline because someone turned it off or because it doesn't have an internet connection, but only if it is off because the battery was low. The additional requirement is that the location is only shown for 24 hours. If all of those conditions are met you would see the last location in Find My. There is some information on that in https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204233


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