How can I help my friend to find his iPhone

aqeel134 Said:

"How can I help my friend to locate his lost iPhone"

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Two Things:

A. Backtracking Locations:

Have your friend backtrack his locations.

I. Start Here:

• Locate a Lost or Stolen Device - Apple Support
• If your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch is Lost or Stolen - Apple Support

II. Getting this Back:

• Backtrack your Locations: If at a coffee shop, stop in, and ask it if was placed aside.
• Check with Local Authorities: Perhaps it was found and was turned in.
• Ask Others: Check with Other you know (i.e. friends, family members, co-workers, peers, and neighbors)

III. Looking Elsewhere:

Based on Prior Experience: Look under the pillow or on the desk, or under the seat of your car. It might be sitting there. I thought I lost mine, but, they it was in the palm of my hand, interestingly enough.

And...

B. Modify Credentials — ASAP:

Someone might steal his credentials, and access his data. As to who it is, there is no way of telling. So, immediately considering to perform the following is best at this point:

• Modify: your login credentials (using both a New eMail and a New Password) for Apple and each and all sites
• Associate: a different method of payment to your account
• Enable: Two-Factor Authentication for Apple ID PayPal and for all other accounts that have such an applicable option

Yes, you or your friend can sign in to Find.

Go to

https://www.icloud.com/find

Sign in with his Apple ID and you will be able to see where his lost iPhone is if it is online - otherwise you may be able to see the last known location.

Unfortunately that system does not seem to work anymore :-( My wife's phone was lost so we signed onto her icloud account from my phone to try to find it ... only to be told that we needed to enter the two-factor identification number ... which was being sent to the lost phone :-)

It works just fine if you follow the instructions. From your phone, open Find My and tap on Me, then Help a Friend. It won’t prompt for a code, or if it does tap on Find My. Or on any computer browser go to https://icloud.com/find (you MUST append the /find) and it won’t prompt for a 2FA code, either.

I see that you are correct about the "on any computer browser", although how would anyone who is using the FindMy app know about that approach?

You are simply wrong though about the "from your phone", at least from my Iphone 7 and my (latest) IOS. Tapping help a friend allows me to sign into icloud either with my own account (which finds only MY devices), or to start signing in with my friend's account which most definitely sends a 2-factor code to the lost phone not to mine. It would be great if it worked like icloud.com/find -- but, no, it presently does not.

It just worked with Find My on my phone, an XR with iOS 14.4.2. When it prompts for a code there is a small button that has the Find My icon; tap that.

That does seem to be working thanks.