iPad last known location

If the iPad was running iOS 7, the thief/finder will not ever be able to use it.

iCloud: Find My iPhone Activation Lock in iOS 7

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5818

Apple (and no one else) can not assist (with serial number or iCloud) in finding a lost or stolen iPad.

Report to police along with serial number. Change all your passwords.

These links may be helpful.

How to Track and Report Stolen iPad

http://www.ipadastic.com/tutorials/how-to-track-and-report-stolen-ipad

Reporting a lost or stolen Apple product

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2526

What to do if your iOS device is lost or stolen

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5668

iCloud: Locate your device on a map

http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2698

iCloud: Lost Mode - Lock and Trace

http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2700

iCloud: Remotely Erase your device

http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2701

Report Stolen iPad Tips and iPad Theft Prevention

http://www.stolen-property.com/report-stolen-ipad.php

General steps to follow for a Stolen iPad

http://stolen-ipad.com/

How to recover a lost or stolen iPad

http://ipadhelp.com/ipad-help/how-to-recover-a-lost-or-stolen-ipad/

How to Find a Stolen iPad

http://www.ehow.com/how_7586429_stolen-ipad.html

What NOT to do if your iPhone or iPad is lost or stolen

http://www.tomahaiku.com/what-not-to-do-if-your-iphone-or-ipad-lost-or-stolen/

Apple Product Lost or Stolen

http://sites.google.com/site/appleclubfhs/support/advice-and-articles/lost-or-st Len

Oops! iForgot My New iPad On the Plane; Now What?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303459004577362194012634000.html

If you don't know your lost/stolen iPad's serial number, use the instructions below. The S/N is also on the iPad's box.

How to Find Your iPad Serial Number

http://www.ipadastic.com/tutorials/how-to-find-your-ipad-serial-number

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

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4061

Check the serial number (located on back/bottom) in this lost/stolen iPad database. However, most owners are not aware of this database and don’t enter the serial number.

Stolen iPad Database

http://www.stolenlostfound.org/online-stolen-ipad-database

Also do a search, using the serial number, on your local Craig’s List. Some users list the serial number of a stolen iPad to thwart the sale of a stolen device.

 Cheers, Tom 😉

Lost my iPad mini 4g somewhere some time in the last month. Yet as I travel all the time and have multiple houses I was sure I left it in my apartment or office. Yet I seemed to be wrong. Now "find my I iPhone" app which has all my devices registered can't tell me the last location. As myself I'm a Apple fan, yet the non logging policy makes me really want to switch for an other vendor like xiaomi. We are paying way above premium with everything that Apple pushes into the market. At these prices you might think a "find my device" service logs the last location... HUGE NO NO for Apple here!

For Find My to register the location of a device, the device must be turned on and connected to the internet...the system does not maintain records of where every device is for later call-up by users.

Apple does not assist in locating devices without a court order for legal reasons.

If the device has been off-line for weeks, there is nothing anyone can do to help locate it.

Although it may not be your belief but Privacy concerns are not a "Simple problem"

Apple has done a good job of supplying a tool for use by end users just for this type of circumstance but your device being offline is not their problem.

Good luck with your new vendor of devices as they all have similar diparity and concerns around end user privacy.

Perhaps Send Last Known Location is a new feature that they implemented in the last few years to address this, but I am also trying to find an iPad, and the battery has died. It turns out according to Apple today...just now...that the last known location is only shown for 24 hours... so while it would have been nice to know where my iPad was before it died and dissapeared...if only to confirm what I think happened... I guess now that I'll only find it when we move from our current house :-)

Privacy, yeah right. Lost device, goes offline, you want to know that location Sherlock. The device is assigned to an Apple ID for a reason. Marketing and selling bullocks!