Hi everyone, my name is Kevin. Today I'm going to show you how you could find your iPhone again.
Chances are if you're tuning in today, you don't have your iPhone. I'm going to show you
two different techniques that you could use to find your iPhone again. All right, well, first
thing I'm going to do is I'm going to go lose my iPhone and then we're going to go find it. So,
I have a 17-month-old boy at home and you would be surprised at the number of places he hides things.
So we have this box of 200 blocks and what he could very well do is he could take my phone
and you might bury it in the 200 piece mega blocks and I would probably never find it again. So why
don't we go hide the phone in here and then I'll forget where it is and then we'll go find it and
see if we can get it back. All right, here we go. Here goes the iPhone. Yeah, I would never
find that. All right, well, I have completely forgotten where my phone went. My son hid it
somewhere in the house. How am I going to find it again? Well hey luckily it's really easy to find
your phone again. All you need to be able to do is you either need a Mac or a PC and we're going
to go to iCloud.com. So, let's jump in and go ahead and do it. Here I am on my desktop and I'm
going to open up the Chrome browser and what we're going to do is we're going to type in iCloud.com,
and once we're on iCloud, you're going to be prompted to sign in with your Apple ID.
Hopefully you remember your Apple ID. I have mine right here and I also have the password associated
with it saved in Chrome and I'm going to go ahead and sign in now. So, let's go ahead and sign in
and once I'm on the main iCloud homepage,
you'll see all my different apps here. One of them is called Find iPhone. What
we're going to do is we're going to click on this. So, I'm going to click on Find iPhone
and what it's doing now is it's locating the phone. So here you can see a map of
where I live. Hopefully none of you come visit me at home. If you do hopefully you bring a present
and so here it is. What I could do is I'll click on All Devices and you'll see that right now I
just have one Apple device set up here. It's my iPhone and right now it's locating that device.
So it looks like it's finding that device. It knows the last location that it was in
and I can do a few different things. I can have it play a sound, which will help me find where
the phone is especially if it's in the house or if it's somewhere where you know it is the sound will
help you get back to it. There's another option where you could turn on Lost Mode and I'll show
you what that does in a moment and then you could also just erase the iPhone. If you're pretty sure
that there's no way you're going to get it back. Let's say it's been a week since you lost it,
you could just erase it and that way no one could access any of the data on there.
So the first thing that we're going to do is we're going to play a sound and let's see what happens.
Okay. Okay and there's the sound. So first it starts out with a vibration then it starts with a
ringing sound and so that way you could find your way back to the phone. What we're going to do next
is we're going to turn the phone into Lost Mode. This way if you left it somewhere where you're
not going to be able to hear the ringing sound perhaps someone will find the phone and they'll
be able to get it back to you. So, what we're going to do is we're going to click on Lost Mode.
What I can do is I'll enter a phone number. So let's just say I entered my phone number here.
Then I'm going to click on Next and what I can do is I can enter a message that will be
shown on your phone or on your iPhone. So here are the default messages. This iPhone has been
lost. Please call me. So, this message will show up on the screen. I'll show you what that looks
like. And then once you click on Done, the phone will be locked. So you won't be able to unlock it
unless you enter the passcode in. And then other things like your let's say your Apple ID, when
you get back on the device you're going to have to re-enter that to be able to use the device again.
So let's go ahead and click Done and then we'll see what happens.
And then the last one is Erase iPhone and that's not something I want to do. I don't want to erase
my iPhone but you can imagine what that does. So those are three steps to be able to find your
iPhone again. And what I'm going to do next now is I'm going to show you a second method to find
your iPhone. This method works if you have Google Maps on your phone. What Google Maps does is it'll
keep track of your location. So I'm going to go onto Google Maps and just show you how that works.
So we'll go to Google Maps and what I'll do is within the, so if you click on the hamburger menu
on the left-hand side, top left-hand corner, there is something that is called your timeline. I'm
going to go ahead and click on that. The timeline thing is really cool. What that does is it tracks
your location over time where you've been. Here I can see all the trips that I've done since I
got my iPhone. So, you know here are some trips in Europe. I've also been to Hawaii, to Bermuda,
a few different places. So, it's a cool way to keep track of where you've been. But what I
could do now is I could say hey where am I today? And today what it shows is, so it's July 14th,
it'll show my current location. And so, with this then what I could do, so let's expand this.
Here I can see kind of the final position of where I was today. And so that shows me my home location
on here. So, using Google Maps as well, you could track back where your phone is. Unfortunately,
it won't tell you if you've lost it somewhere in your house or if you've lost it in the park.
It won't tell you the specific spot where it is. It'll give you kind of the general location,
but that tends to be good enough. And if you left it somewhere, it'll probably remind you of where
it might be. So those are two different methods to find your iPhone. Again, hopefully they were both
helpful. If you have a son at home who tends to hide things, I found this to be extremely useful
to be able to find my phone again. He'll put it in different drawers. He'll put it in different
locations under a pillow. It's hard to know where it is, but I get it back using these methods.
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