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Does anyone know an app that I can use to try and find my lost iPhone. It evidentially did not have the find my opened on it because my iPad is not finding my phone. It only registers my iPad and even through iCloud I can only find my iPad not my iPhone.
Here is Apple’s advice for lost or stolen devices:
If your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch is lost or stolen – Apple Support
Use the Find My app to locate a lost or stolen device – Apple Support
If the Find My iPad feature was enabled prior to it being “misplaced”, then if active, you would stand a good chance of locating it.
However, if the feature was not activated prior to being misplaced - or the iPad has been inactive for more than 24 hours, the last known location will not be available - and all opportunity to use technical means to recover the iPad have been lost.
There are no third-party Apps to locate a lost device.
Consider that “Find My” works by having the device securely signed-in to Apple’s back-end server infrastructure - to which a device is (a) continuously updating its computed location over an active [WiFi or Cellular] network connection, and (b) it can retrieve instructions to display a message, make a sound, erase etc.
It is connection to Apple’s servers that facilitates finding and managing lost or stolen devices. Without such connection, finding a lost device by technical means is impossible.
Here is Apple’s advice for lost or stolen devices:
If your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch is lost or stolen – Apple Support
Use the Find My app to locate a lost or stolen device – Apple Support
If the Find My iPad feature was enabled prior to it being “misplaced”, then if active, you would stand a good chance of locating it.
However, if the feature was not activated prior to being misplaced - or the iPad has been inactive for more than 24 hours, the last known location will not be available - and all opportunity to use technical means to recover the iPad have been lost.
There are no third-party Apps to locate a lost device.
Consider that “Find My” works by having the device securely signed-in to Apple’s back-end server infrastructure - to which a device is (a) continuously updating its computed location over an active [WiFi or Cellular] network connection, and (b) it can retrieve instructions to display a message, make a sound, erase etc.
It is connection to Apple’s servers that facilitates finding and managing lost or stolen devices. Without such connection, finding a lost device by technical means is impossible.
Trying to find iPhone with iPad but it is not coming up as a device
