If your phone is on LTE can you still track it even if no phone calls or text messages were made?

I told you this in the other post you made regarding 2G, but for Find My iPhone to work, your device has to have had Find My iPhone activated, the device needs to be powered on, and it needs to have an active connection to the internet, whether Wi-Fi or cellular. You do not have to make a call, or text, or anything. If you know cellular technology, your phone is constantly pinging the nearby towers on a regular basis to allow the network to know your location to be able to deliver calls to you. How else do you think that the network would know what tower to route your call to?

yes as long as it is connected to cellular data or wifi you can track it using find my iphone, assuming you had it turned on.

Meg St._Clair wrote:

skorams18 wrote:

Last question is there any way I can prove where my phone was on that night? Through the Verizon service provider or anything else? Can you get a stingray device?

An attorney can submit a subpoena to Verizon for information on what towers the phone was pinging off of at any given time. There would have to be some sort of legal reason to do this. And, you'd need to pay the attorney.

I don't think that is something the OP would want to do to explain to mom & pop, but then it took two different threads and a great deal of questions skirting around the subject before finally coming clean that the OP was in trouble at home. Go figure. 😉

ChrisJ4203 wrote:

Meg St._Clair wrote:

skorams18 wrote:

Last question is there any way I can prove where my phone was on that night? Through the Verizon service provider or anything else? Can you get a stingray device?

An attorney can submit a subpoena to Verizon for information on what towers the phone was pinging off of at any given time. There would have to be some sort of legal reason to do this. And, you'd need to pay the attorney.

I don't think that is something the OP would want to do to explain to mom & pop, but then it took two different threads and a great deal of questions skirting around the subject before finally coming clean that the OP was in trouble at home. Go figure. 😉

I'm sure they wouldn't. Mostly, I was trying to emphasis that while it's possible, it's not practical.

Also, I had the thread open in my browser for a while and didn't realize it had moved on until I hit "Post". 😉

There is a remote chance you can get what you need from your phone, look at:

Settings> Privacy> Location Services> System Services> Frequent Locations> History

This may work, but only if Frequent Locations was turned ON. When I use this I can see snippets of where I was by date and time, though in your case there may not have been a record of your location at the time you were at that location, but take a look.

No, you cannot. The Find My iPhone app tracks in real time. The only exception is if the battery dies on the device and you have it set to save the location for the last 24 hours. You are going to have to figure out another way to get yourself out of your situation. You phone isn't going to help you.

If you wanted to get information from the stingray device, it would be if law enforcement was watching you. That is what surveillance means.

skorams18 wrote:

Thank you, I had that turned on but I did not lose my phone. Say for instance I was in an area for a short period of time (maybe an hour) and no text messages or phone calls were made would anyone be able to locate exactly where that phone was located at that time?

Please re read my reply. it still applies if you get no calls or text message.

skorams18 wrote:

I got myself in a bad situation with where I actually told my parents I was one night and I'm trying to prove to them where I really was. It was a few days ago now but is there any way to track that phones location? It was turned on but no calls or text messages were made at all. In other words, can you go back in time and find out where that phone was?

This should've been your original post instead of us going around in circles trying to figure what you want after we've already answered your questions.

That tracks the device in real time as well, if you were under surveillance. My gracious man, what did you do? If you are looking at jail time, contact a lawyer. If not, let it rest. You cannot explain to mom and dad where you were if they don't want to believe you. This isn't a case for the FBI.

skorams18 wrote:

Of course not an FBI case. I just was out at a friends house and my parents don't believe that I was there and i'm trying to plead my case to them by proving to them where I was the whole night. What do you mean by "real time if you were under surveillance"?

You should sit down with your parents and talk this out, seems to be a bigger issue here that we can't help you with.

Best of luck.