Hey YouTube! Tech Intimidation. Today we're talking about how to recover a
lost Apple device using the Find My iPhone app and Lost Mode. We'll be
covering this service for iPhone but know that Find My iPhone can be used to
find iPods, laptops and desktops. Also note that there's a few steps you need
to do before you lose the device.
Here's the two things you need to do before you lose the device. First, let's
enable Location Services. Go to Settings, scroll down to privacy, at the top of
location services enable location services. And then scroll down the list
and find Find My iPhone. In these settings you want to ensure that "Never"
is not checked. And "While Using the App" is checked. Next we need to go back to
settings, and go into iCloud. In iCloud, scroll down to the bottom to Find My
iPhone and turn it on.
You can also enable a secondary setting send last location. This is not mandatory
but you can turn it on if you would like. With these settings enabled we will now
be able to find the device in the event that we lose it and here's what you
would do in that situation.
Log into the Find My iPhone app on any device or by logging into iCloud dot com
slash find. In both cases, you should login with the same Apple account that the
device you want to find is registered to. Once logged in, a list of devices
associated with that Apple account will be shown. In the web app like I'm using
that list is at the top under all devices. Tap the device to see it on the
map and you have the following options. When using Find My iPhone on an iPhone
if you click the car symbol you'll be given turn-by-turn directions to the
location of your device. On both the iPhone and the web app, you have three
options. You can click "Play Sound"
to have your phone sound an alarm. You can click "Lost Mode" to have the phone
enter Lost Mode. Or choose erase iPhone to begin a remote wipe of your phone so
here's what happens when you click the play sound buttton.
To enter "Lost Mode" press the "Lost Mode" key.
You will be prompted to enter phone number where you can be reached. Click next, you can enter
a message that will be shown on the lock screen once the phone
enters lost mode. A default message appears but you can enter anything you want
here. The phone will have the following features: Activation lock is enabled. From
then on your Apple ID and password are required before anyone can turn off Find
my iPhone, erase or re-activate your device. In the emergency section, the
Medical ID and emergency contacts will no longer be shown as well.
The phone will be put into Low Power Mode to extended battery life.
Airplane mode cannot be activated and WiFI can not be deactivated. But the phone can
still be turned off. If you have a credit or debit card with Apple pay, the
ability to make payments using Apple Pay on that device will be suspended
until you take your device out of Lost Mode. From the lock screen the only way
to unlock it is by entering the four-digit passcode. If you did not have a
passcode already set, after clicking lost mode you'll be prompted to enter one. You
can also initiate a remote wipe of your phone using the Erase iPhone feature.
This would prevent anyone else from accessing the data on your missing phone.
When you erase your device all of your information including your credit and
debit card info in Apple pay and your Apple account info will be deleted from
the device. But you won't be able to find it using the Find My iPhone app after that
point. After you erase the device you can track it anymore.
Also if you removed the device from your Apple Account after erasing it,
Activation Lock will be turned off. This means that another person can reactivate
it and use the phone with their own Apple
account. I hope this was helpful. Please click Like and subscribe for more tech
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