How to find a friends iphone on find my iphone

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1. Open Find My iPhone on another device.
2. Sign in with your Apple ID.
3. Click or tap the missing iPhone.
4. Click or tap Actions.
5. Click or tap Play Sound.
6. Follow the sound to the iPhone.
7. Enable Lost Mode if the phone is stolen.

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If an iPhone is lost, the owner might need some help finding it again, even though Apple has built-in reliable ways to find missing devices. The trouble is that the iPhone might have been the only thing the person had with them to search for the misplaced phone. So unless the iPhone is close enough that saying 'Hey Siri' gets a response, a user will need another device to track it down.

Apple has various ways to find lost items, and it's not just Apple devices that are trackable now. The AirTag is Apple's latest addition to the Find My network, a bottle-cap-sized beacon that can be attached to key rings or tucked in a bag to make those items easily findable if they ever go missing. The Find My network is a billion-strong worldwide collection of Apple device owners that can anonymously identify lost devices and objects. A few third-party devices have Find My tracking capability as well, including headphones, electric bicycles and more.

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Apple's Find My app has a feature called 'Help A Friend' that lets an iPhone or iPad owner assist with searching for a friend's lost iPhone. The first step is to open the Find My app. Then the user should go to the 'Me' tab, scroll down to find 'Help A Friend,' and tap it. This will open the Safari browser on the iCloud.com website to the Find My iPhone page. If the user is already signed in, they should log out by tapping their name in the upper-right corner and selecting 'Sign Out.' The friend can then sign in to their iCloud account with their Apple ID and use the Find My iPhone feature to spot where their phone was last seen, appearing as a dot on a map.

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With your finger on the pill-shaped drag handle, bring the Me tab up over the map to reveal the additional options.

Tap Help a Friend at the bottom.

Once the iCloud.com page has loaded, sign into your iCloud account using your ‌Apple ID‌ and password.

After logging in, you'll be presented with a map and a list of all the devices that are signed into your ‌iCloud‌ account. You can also tap the arrow icon in the top-right corner of the screen to center the map on the currently selected device.

Scroll up on the devices below the map to see the full list and find the device you're looking for. Note that the line below each device tells you its last known location, while a padlock on a device's icon indicates that it's lost and has been manually locked. If you tap a device in the list, you'll gain access to additional device options.

The options available to you will depend on the type of device you're trying to locate, but you should always have the option to play a sound to locate a nearby device as long as it's powered on and within range.

If it's a Mac, iOS device or Apple Watch you're trying to locate, you can put it into Lost Mode (this ensures your passcode is required on the device before anyone can turn off ‌Find My‌ ‌iPhone‌ or erase it) or remotely erase it.

If the selected device is out of range of network coverage or powered off, you can tap Notify When Found, and Apple will email you when the device is located. Any other options you choose in the device actions menu (Erase iPad, for example) will be performed the next time the device comes back online.