How To Find A Dead Iphone Without Find My Iphone

If you have a newer iPhone, a recent Find My app update lets you locate your phone even if it's powered off or has a dead battery.

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Apple makes it like shooting fish in a barrel

If you have a newer iPhone, I have great news. A recent Notice My app update lets you locate an iPhone even if it's powered off or has a expressionless bombardment.

Note: This works for the iPhone xi and newer, including all iPhone 11, 12 and 13 models running iOS xv.

Commencement, make certain Notice My is enabled and check your settings. Here'due south how:

• On your iPhone, open up Settings > [your name] > Find My. If you're asked to sign in, enter your Apple ID.

• Tap Find My iPhone, then slide the toggle next to Find My iPhone to the correct to enable it. (This should be enabled by default.)

• You can also turn on or off either of the following:

• Find My network: If your device is offline (not continued to Wi-Fi or cellular), Discover My tin can locate it using the Notice My network. On a supported iPhone with iOS 15 or later on, turning on the Find My network allows you to locate the device for upward to 24 hours after it's turned off.

• Ship Last Location: If your device'south battery charge level becomes critically low, its location is sent to Apple automatically.

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How to use Find My

Now that Find My is gear up up, you have a few options to utilize information technology should your phone become missing.

Accept an Apple Watch? You lot have a simple method. Swipe up on the screen. In one case your watch is open up, tap on the phone icon with sound waves. This tap will force your iPhone to emit a noise even if it's on silent.

If you take an iPad or MacBook, use the Notice My app. You can use it to rails your phone and emit sound, simply like with an Apple Watch. Come across total steps to track from a Mac here. Here's how to track your telephone from an iPad.

Don't worry if your iPhone is your simply Apple device. Yous can use your spider web browser.

• Log in to iCloud.com.

• Locate the Find iPhone feature.

• Once you've selected Find iPhone, sign in again.

• Click on All Devices to locate the phone you're looking for.

• Select the phone you've lost and select Play Sound.

You can also view your misplaced telephone on a map.

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What about Androids?

Detect My Device is automatically turned on when adding a Google account to any Android device. For it to work, y'all must:

• Be signed in to a Google Account

• Be connected to mobile data or Wi-Fi

• Have Location turned on

• Take Find My Device enabled

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Like with Detect My iPhone, y'all tin locate your Android phone using a few dissimilar methods. Here are some options:

From a browser, go to android.com/find to locate your device:

• Sign in to your Google Account.

• Click on the lost phone icon at the top of the screen.

• A notification will be sent to your phone.

• You'll come across on a map approximately where your telephone is located.

• Choose Play Sound to cause your phone to ring at max volume for five minutes so you can detect it.

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If you accept a 2nd Android device, like a tablet, download the Google Find My Device app and use it to locate your missing device.

• Download the Find My Device app and open up it.

• Choose Continue on your contour.

• Follow the same steps as listed above from your web browser.

Like an Apple Watch, you lot can use your Habiliment OS Watch for Android to locate your telephone in certain circumstances. To use your scout, your phone must be powered on and connected to your watch by Bluetooth:

• If you lot can't see your screen, wake up the sentinel.

• To run across your listing of apps, printing the Power button.

• Tap Find my phone.

• Your phone will band to notify you lot of its location.

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