Welcome to Touch Technology Review! First of all if you've just purchased your
brand-new iPhone and you've come to this tutorial then congratulations for
picking up your new phone! If you're a long-term iPhone user and you're just
looking to update your skills well that's what I want to do today. I'm going
to show you a very useful feature called find my. It was recently updated in iOS
13. It was previously called find my phone but now more appropriately named--
find my because it does more than just find your phone you can use it to find
other devices that you register through the app and also you can use it to find
friends and family that you connect to the app so a very useful application
indeed for locating a lost device or locating friends and family in your
network so let's go ahead and check out how to use the find my application in
order to use this feature you have to set it up first so to do that tap on the
Settings icon on your iPhone tap on passwords and counts tap on iCloud if
you haven't done so already enter your iCloud email address and password then
tap on the find my icon just below tap on the total switch to the right to
activate the Find My iPhone feature when you do this some options appear below
the first is to enable offline finding apparently this allows your device to be
found when not connected to a Wi-Fi network or a mobile connection however I
don't know how this actually works and if you stick around to the end of this
video I'll tell you about a situation where the fine might actually fail me
when my phone wasn't connected to a network the next option is to send last
location to define my app it's a good idea to turn this one on to as it will
show you the last location of your phone if your batteries run out now tap on the
find my icon in blue on the top left hand side of the screen to go back one
level and you should see the following Find My iPhone should
set to on at the top my location is set to this device share my location is
turned on below will be a list of your family members that have already been
set up in the past you'll be able to see the location of these family members by
tapping on each one of them right here in the Settings app or by going to the
find my app which will do so shortly because we said share my location to on
all family members can also view your location this is great for most of us
but what if you want to keep your location private with certain family
members and allow others to find you simply tap on their family member name
and in the slide-out panel scroll down and tap on stop sharing if you haven't
set up a family sharing before go back one step tap on family sharing and add
family members when you add a member you can invite them via an iMessage in
person or you can create a child account for children in your family without even
having an iCloud account the next thing I want to do is to show you how to share
your location with people outside of your family group so anyone in your
contacts list do this go to the contacts app and tap on the person you want to
start sharing your location with scroll down and tap on start sharing my
location you can choose to share for one hour share until the end of the day or
share indefinitely if at any point you decide this is an invasion of your
privacy and you want to go incognito tap on the stop sharing my location in the
contact entry for that person and your location will no longer be visible in
their find my application now that we've done all that let's take a look at the
fine light app itself you can find the application by locating the icon you see
on screen right now or swiping midway down your screen to reveal the search
tool type in find my and then tap on the app to open it the app itself is really
easy to navigate around you'll see a large map that shows the geographic
location or contacts in your contact list that you set up to share with you
can zoom in and out as you would do with any map interface and tap on the profile
picture to reveal some options for sharing on each person if you're looking
for a lost of olan device tap on the devices tab at
the bottom all your devices will appear in this section again you can use the
map to zoom in and out to locate your device with precision to alter your own
profile tap on the last submenu option on the bottom menu which is called me in
this tab you can view your location at the top turn the sharing of your
location on and off at any time and also decide whether you want to allow friends
to see your location this doesn't automatically share your
location but it does allow people to tap on your calendar entry on their phone
and ask to share your location you'll then get a request usually sent by
message and you can then decide whether you actually want to share your location
or not similar to what I showed you in the earlier part of this tutorial going
back to the people's tab let's take a look at what else we can do you can tap
on anyone's profile icon on the maps to access more information about them you
can get their name and location at the top contact icon and directions to get
their current location along with an estimated distance and below is a
notifications option if you tap on add you can now add a notification when they
leave a location and you can also use it to notify them when you leave or arrive
at a specific location so that's it you now know how to use the find my app to
locate any Apple device you own or share your location and locate family and
friends in your own personal Network thanks for watching hopefully you found
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a side note I just wanted to mention that the fire might app will only work
if your phone is connected to a network bit a cellular 3G 4G or Wi-Fi connection
so if by chance the phone battery goes flat at any point then you're not going
to be able to find your phone in that instance or locate friends and family
when the batteries are flat also there's certain situations where it won't work
including when the phone is submerged in water and I learnt this the hard way
myself when I lost the phone at the beach and it actually became completely
submerged in the shallows of the water at the beach and when I went to use my
wife's phone to go and locate the phone it just didn't show up at all so if it's
submerged under water if the batteries are turned off it's actually not going
to work but there is a very few circumstances when it doesn't work for
most people when you've just misplaced it or had it stolen if you're quick
enough you'll be able to jump on and find your phone really easily using the
find my app thanks for watching see on the next one
but now