HT201472: If your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch is lost or stolen

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Q: Help me find my son's ipod please!

Hi my son has 'misplaced' his ipod over a week ago now so probably out of charge. He says he has the 'find my ipod app' but cant remember if he has registered it. It there anyway of locating his device or at least be able to tell if its being used elsewhere?

iPod touch, iOS 6.1.4

Posted on Jul 15, 2013 9:43 AM

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Q: Help me find my son's ipod please!

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  • by lllaass,Helpful

    lllaass lllaass Jul 15, 2013 9:45 AM in response to Smilfshake
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    Jul 15, 2013 9:45 AM in response to Smilfshake

    The battery would be dead by now

    - If you previously turned on FIndMyiPod on the iPod in Settings>iCloud and wifi is on and connected go to iCloud: Find My iPhone, sign in and go to FIndMyiPhone. If the iPod has been restored it will never show up.

    - You can also wipe/erase the iPod and have the iPod play a sound via iCloud.

    - If not shown, then you will have to use the old fashioned way, like if you lost a wallet or purse.
    - Change the passwords for all accounts used on the iPod and report to police

    - There is no way to prevent someone from restoring the iPod (it erases it) using it.

    - Apple will do nothing without a court order                         

    Reporting a lost or stolen Apple product                                        

    - iOS: How to find the serial number, IMEI, MEID, CDN, and ICCID number

  • by Michael Black,

    Michael Black Michael Black Jul 15, 2013 9:47 AM in response to Smilfshake
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    Jul 15, 2013 9:47 AM in response to Smilfshake

    The app has nothing to do with making a device trackable.  To be trackable, he needed to have an iCloud account set up on the iPod, with the find my iPod setting enabled under that account.  He can then try and track it by logging into his iCloud account in a web browser.

     

    But, to be trackable, it also has to be powered on, and have an active, live wifi data connection.  Without that, it is untrackable.

     

    P.S. the find my iPhone app is used to track one iOS device from another iOS device since you cannot log in to an iCloud account in Safari under iOS.

  • by Smilfshake,

    Smilfshake Smilfshake Jul 15, 2013 9:53 AM in response to lllaass
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    Jul 15, 2013 9:53 AM in response to lllaass

    Thankyou I have sent him to turn his room upside down to look for it!