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Best Ways To Find A Stolen Or Lost iPhone

Losing an iPhone, or having one stolen, can be a panic-inspiring event. Not only are you out a sizable chunk of money, but all your contacts and lists and phone numbers—often huge parts of your day-to-day life—are gone. But don’t despair, as these apps and tips can help you recover your missing iPhone.
Find My iPhone

This official app from Apple uses the company’s iCloud service to locate your lost phone. First, be sure to set up Find My iPhone so that you can use the app when your phone is missing to see your phone’s location, remotely lock the phone, set a passcode on it, or even remotely delete its data. It’s free and requires access to another iOS device, a Mac, or a web-connected computer when yours is lost.
Device Locator

Device Locator

Unlike some of the other apps on this list, the Device Locator app doesn’t require a monthly subscription. Instead, this app lets you log into a web-based account to track the location of a phone, cause it to make noise, lock the phone to prevent access by a thief, and more
GadgetTrak

GadgetTrak

An app and web-based service that sends location data about your phone to its servers. With that information, you can locate your iPhone by GPS, map, IP address, and more. You may even be able to snap a picture of the thief who has it.
FoneHome
FoneHome
FoneHome offers GPS-based location of lost or stolen iPhones, as well as the ability to remotely take photos (maybe even snap a pic of the thief), play a sound (great if you just lost your iPhone in the couch), and track information online
Mobile Spy
Mobile Spy
This subscription-based service can track stolen or lost smartphones. Mobile Spy features include a web-based account to log incoming calls and texts, locate via GPS, record newly added contacts, track emails, and more.
Ping With Your Apple Watch
Apple Watch Control Center and ping button image

If you own an Apple Watch, you can use it to ping your synced iPhone. The ping function is found in the Apple Watch’s Control Center—get to it by swiping up from the bottom of your watch. The icon looks like a phone with sound waves coming off of it. Tap the ping button and your iPhone will emit a ping sound, even if it is set to silent or vibrate only. Keep pressing it as needed as you hunt for the missing phone.

As an added function, tap and hold the ping button to cause the iPhone’s LED flash to blink (this only works when the iPhone is locked).
Call Your Phone
Man walking on street on cell phone
This technique won’t help you retrieve a stolen iPhone, but if you’ve lost your phone around the house or office, it’ll do fine. Just call your phone number and, unless your ringer is off, you’ll be able to track your phone to between the couch cushions by following the rings. Obviously, you’ll have to either have access to a landline or another person’s phone for this one.
Make Wallpaper with Contact Info
Woman on cell phone
Though a few apps above offer a similar thing, you can create a wallpaper with your contact information for free. Use your favorite graphics program to create a wallpaper with your name, email address, an alternate phone number you can be reached at, and any other pertinent information a person can use to get in touch with you. Then sync the image to your iPhone and set it as both the wallpaper and lock screen. This won’t foil a thief, but it could help you get a lost iPhone back if it is found by a kind person.

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If your iPhone has been stolen or lost, Apple offers a free tool to help you get it back. And, even if you can’t get it back, you can prevent a thief from getting at your personal data.

To do this, you need Find My iPhone, a free service that’s part of iCloud, that uses your phone’s GPS and Internet connection to help you locate it on a map and take certain actions. No one wants to need this article, but if you do, these instructions will help you use Find My iPhone to locate a lost or stolen iPhone.
How to Use Find My iPhone to Find or Erase Your Phone

As already mentioned, you must have the Find My iPhone service set up on your device before it was stolen. If you did, go to https://www.icloud.com/ in a web browser.

There’s also a Find My iPhone app (link opens iTunes) that you can install on another iOS device to track yours. This article covers using the web-based tool, though using the app is pretty similar. If your iPhone or iPod touch (or iPad or Mac) is missing, follow these steps to try to recover it:

Log in to iCloud using the account you used when setting up Find My iPhone. This is probably your Apple ID/iTunes account.
Click on Find iPhone under the web-based tools offered by iCloud. Find My iPhone immediately begins trying to locate all the devices you have it enabled on. You’ll see onscreen messages as it works.
If you have more than one device set up for Find My iPhone, click All Devices at the top of the screen and select the device you’re looking for.
If it locates your device, Find My iPhone zooms in on the map and shows the location of the device using a green dot. When this happens, you can zoom in or out of the map, and view it in standard, satellite, and hybrid modes, like in Google Maps. When your device is found, a window appears in the right corner of your web browser. It lets you know how much battery your phone has and offers a few options.

Click Play Sound. This is the first option because sending a sound to the device is best when you think you’ve lost your device nearby and want help finding it. It can also be helpful if you think someone has your device but is denying it.
You can also click Lost Mode. This allows you to remotely lock the device’s screen and set a passcode (even if you hadn’t previously set up a passcode). This prevents a thief from using your device or accessing your personal data.
Once you click the Lost Mode button, enter the passcode you want to use. If you already have a passcode on the device, that code will be used. You can also enter a phone number where the person who has the device can reach you (this is optional; you may not want to share this information if it’s been stolen). You also have the option to write a message that is displayed on the device’s screen.

If you don’t think you’ll get the phone back, you can delete all data from the device. To do this, click the Erase button. You’ll see a warning (basically, don’t do this unless you’re absolutely sure you want to). Click the box that says you understand what you’re doing and click Erase. This will delete all the data on your phone, preventing the thief from accessing it.
If you get the device back later, you can restore your data from backup.
If you think your device is on the move, click the green dot representing your phone and then click the rounded arrow in the pop-up window. This updates the device’s location using the latest GPS data.

What to Do If Your iPhone Is Offline

Even if you have set up Find My iPhone, your device may not show up on the map. Reasons for why this may happen include that the device:

Is turned off or out of battery;
Isn’t connected to the Internet;
Has had its Location Services disabled.

If Find My iPhone isn’t working for whatever reason, you have a handful of options:

​Check the Notify Me When Found box. Find My iPhone will let you know when your device next connects to the Internet so you can find it.
The three options – Play Sound, Lost Mode, and Erase – are available. Use whichever you want and the next time the device is connected to the Internet, the option you picked will happen.
Choose Remove from Account if you’ve sold or given away the device and don’t want it to show up in Find My iPhone anymore.

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