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Q: Can find my phone be used from another iPhone?

Can you use a family members iPhone to activate find my phone on your own phone?

iPhone 4S, iOS 7

Posted on Oct 5, 2013 7:54 AM

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Q: Can find my phone be used from another iPhone?

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  • by mende1,Apple recommended

    mende1 mende1 Oct 5, 2013 7:55 AM in response to 123Gone
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    Oct 5, 2013 7:55 AM in response to 123Gone

    Welcome to Apple Support Communities

     

    You have to enable Find my iPhone on this phone. If you didn't turn on Find my iPhone on the iPhone and you can't use it, you can't enable Find my iPhone. However, if Find my iPhone is turned on, you can track the phone from another device with the Find my iPhone application or http://www.icloud.com from a PC or Mac

  • by KRM39,

    KRM39 KRM39 Jul 16, 2016 10:31 PM in response to mende1
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    Jul 16, 2016 10:31 PM in response to mende1

    I have used this and was wondering how accurate the location is for this family members phone being tracked from my own phone through this feature? I as because it gave a location that was about 100 feet off.

  • by gail from maine,

    gail from maine gail from maine Jul 18, 2016 9:23 PM in response to KRM39
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    Jul 18, 2016 9:23 PM in response to KRM39

    The tracking you see on the phone that you have signed your iCloud ID into is showing you what the device you are looking for is sending for tracking purposes. Where you sign in to look for this tracking information is irrelevant since the information is being generated by the device you are tracking, not the device you are looking at.

     

     

    Cheers,

     

    GB