This video is going to look at how you use Lost Mode to find a misplaced, lost or stolen iPhone or iPad.
On your iPad you should download the app 'Find My iPhone'. Now it will find
iPads even though it says 'Find My iPhone'. You need to set up 'Find My iPhone' on your
iPad. Go into 'Settings', 'iCloud' and in 'Find My iPad', turn it 'On' and that will
set it up. If you've lost your iPad then there's no point using the 'Find My iPhone' app on
the iPad. You need another way and you can use the iCloud.com website. Sign into your
Apple account where you can then use 'Find My iPhone'. Go into iCloud.com and sign in.
Once you've signed in, there is a 'Find My iPhone' option, so if I click that, it will
locate any of your 'i' devices on a map. Now I've zoomed out of the map so you can't see
my address and then it will give you a little green dot. Any of the devices that are online
will have a green dot. Any device that has a grey dot is offline. If you've got more
than one 'i' device which I have, you can click 'All Devices' and then select the one
you want to locate. If I wanted to locate my iPad Air, I would click that. At the moment
I'm recording this on the iMac. I click 'iPad Air' and now I've got some options. I can
play a Sound, and that sound will play on the iPad. Let's click that (Sound Playing).
I'll leave the iPad up on the left there so you can see what happens when I actually click
it. So if I play a sound (Sound Playing), that sound rings on the iPad until you turn
it off, and this is the message that it displays in the iPad. When I tap 'Okay', that sound
is gone and I will get an email to indicate that that alert has been activated. 'Play
Sound' is good if you've misplaced your iPad in your house, say it's under the bed or under
the couch and you can't find it; that's a good way to locate it. If your iPad or iPhone
is lost or misplaced or stolen, then you use 'Lost Mode'. If I click 'Lost Mode', I have
got a passcode set up on the iPad which is why when I go into 'Lost Mode', I get the
option to put a phone number in. If I didn't have a passcode already set up, then it would
ask me to input a passcode and that code would be required before the iPad could be unlocked.
So in this case I've already got a passcode, so it asks me for a phone number. Let's just
put a phone number in, just any number you like. This is just any number, not my phone
number. I'm just making it up and then 'Next'. It is a valid number even though it's incorrect,
and Use it. And then it gives you a message. This is the default message so you can retain
that message or you can add more of your own, so maybe I'll put 'Reward $100' because unless
you know the passcode, you can't do anything with this iPad. It's basically a brick. So
the iPad is going to be locked using its existing passcode. As soon as I go 'Done', that message
will be sent to that iPad. So this is what comes up on the iPad. It asks you to call
that number, it gives you a message, so unless you know that passcode, I can swipe, but I
need to know that passcode before I can do anything. So ‘Lost Mode' will also track
it on a map. I can see with the green dot where the iPad is actually located and if
it moves, I can still keep tracking it. If it's offline then the message will still be
sent once it does come online. If you don't like the map, you can also change down the
bottom here. I like the Hybrid map better because it's going to give me the actual roads
and the terrain. You can change the map or you can just have the satellite map which
will give you the satellite without the road names. And if none of that works, you can
also erase the iPad, so you'll get a message to ensure you really want to do that, and
if I click 'Erase' then all content, all settings will be erased. If it's lost, then that's
the most effective way. At least the data is secure. Just cancel if you don't want that
to happen. All of these options are also available on the iPhone in the iPhone app. So you could
have somebody else's iPhone or iPad and you could be using the 'Find My iPhone' on somebody
else's device because obviously yours is lost. I can go into the app and sign into my account.
So if you're using somebody else's 'i' device, then you can just sign into your own accounts.
Let's pause while I do that and then you get the similar options. You get 'All Devices'
up the top here. I tap 'My Devices' and I get a list of all my Apple devices. Again,
green dot is online, grey dot is offline, so I could look at my iMac and find out where
it was. Again, you've got 'Play Sound' 'Lock' and 'Erase The Mac'. The same options can
be used on the 'Find My iPhone' app or use iCloud.com to try and locate a lost, misplaced
or stolen iPad. T hat's all for this video.