How do I install find my iPad on my wife's iPad ... Ie hers on mine and mine on hers?
iPad, iPad Air
You can't install it, it's part of the iOS. If her iPad is running iOS 5 or higher and she created an iCloud account in Settings>iCloud you will find Find My iPad there.
Thanks for this, but I didn't make myself clear.
I know about the app, and have it installed on each of the iPads
But how do I track each on the other?
Download the free Find My iPhone app, then sign into the iCloud account with the app that the device you want to track is using.
I'm sure I'm being very dull, but having downloaded the app, it faithfully uses my own iCloud account, and I'm unable to detect how I access or add information about my wife's iCloud account, even though it speaks of 'all devices' when I access it...
If she is using a different iCloud account you have to be signed into her account with the app in order to track her device(s). If the Find My iPhone app is signed into your account, tap Sign Out on the top right, tap sign out again to confirm it, then sign into her account.
How bout "find my friends" app for you Lissant.
Randers, if I may a question? House has 8 devices including two macs, iphones ipads. Every husband's device is three hours off and in incorrect location. Husband signs in to his icloud account - location is shifted to another side of country. Deletes icloud account signs in to his wife's, downloads find my iphone and location is correct. He needs to redownload "find my iphone" each time. Deletes his wife's icloud account, signs in to his - location is off again. His icloud.com location is correct as well as the time zone. His first device out of everything that he has now is an iMac from 2012. Where does his icloud picks his location from? He suspects that his problem started with update to Maverics...
I don't particularly like the idea that I have to sign in and out of different iCloud accounts to operate the app . The suggestion that I use the find my friends app sounds better... But I still don't really understand why the find my iPad app should offer 'my devices' when it can't switch itself between iCloud accounts
It says "My Devices" because most people have their devices on a single account. If you want to provide feedback to Apple on this you can do so here: http://www.apple.com/feedback/icloud.html.
fromsouth wrote:
How bout "find my friends" app for you Lissant.
Randers, if I may a question? House has 8 devices including two macs, iphones ipads. Every husband's device is three hours off and in incorrect location. Husband signs in to his icloud account - location is shifted to another side of country. Deletes icloud account signs in to his wife's, downloads find my iphone and location is correct. He needs to redownload "find my iphone" each time. Deletes his wife's icloud account, signs in to his - location is off again. His icloud.com location is correct as well as the time zone. His first device out of everything that he has now is an iMac from 2012. Where does his icloud picks his location from? He suspects that his problem started with update to Maverics...
I'm not sure I completely understand what you're asking, but if you mean it is showing the wrong location in Find My iPhone, it establishes the location the same way the maps app does; from crowd-sourced wifi and cellular tower locations (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4995) for the internet connection of device being tracked. Are you saying that the location of his device is correct when he signs into his wife's iCloud account and uses the Find My iPhone app with the app signed into his own iCloud account? Or are you talking about the Find My Friends app?
The iCloud time zone is set on icloud.com. He should make sure he has selected both the correct time zone and the correct city (although choosing the wrong city would normally only account for being off by one hour due to different daylight savings time rules).
I'm not sure I completely understand what you're asking, but if you mean it is showing the wrong location in Find My iPhone, it establishes the location the same way the maps app does; from crowd-sourced wifi and cellular tower locations (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4995)
----That is the fun of it. Wife and husband are on the same wifi. They both have iphones (cellular towers involvment with GPS). It is literally the same device and different icloud accounts create different location response.
The iCloud time zone is set on icloud.com. He should make sure he has selected both the correct time zone and the correct city (although choosing the wrong city would normally only account for being off by one hour due to different daylight savings time rules).
That was the first thing I checked and it is correct time zone. No idea and not too many people I can ask...😕
Maybe he should try changing it, then change it back. Otherwise I would have him call iCloud support and have them invistigate if something is wronge with his account. Or, I suppose he could try creating a new account and if that solved the problem, migrate his data to the new account.
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