Does "Find my phone" need Push?

I just tried "Find my phone" and it works fine but it appears that it will only work if Push is turned on. I don't use Push to save battery life. Does anyone know for sure if Push is required?
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Ok, played with it a little bit more. I was able to figure out that if I went to Settings>Mail, Contacts, Calendars>Fetch New Data>Advanced and set my Contacts, Calendars to Manual and Mail to Fetch and then went back and set Fetch to Hourly in the previous menu and shut off Push I could still locate my phone. I'll have to keep checking to see if this really continues to work or not but maybe it will conserve battery life a little more.

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You can access iCloud.com on a computer to turn it off.
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2702

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Does find my phone have a history that shows where your phone has been like in the last 24-72 hours?

All you may infer is the device hasn't been turned on where it can connect to Wi-Fi.
The phone may be jailbroken if there is no lock passcode to prevent access. However, the phone can be completely erased and restored as new. In this case you will have no ability to locate it or prevent it from being jailbroken.
What To Do If Your iDevice Is Lost Or Stolen
If you activated Find My Phone before it was lost or stolen, you can track it only if Wi-Fi is enabled on the device. What you cannot do is track your device using a serial number or other identifying number. You cannot expect Apple or anyone else to find your device for you. You cannot recover your loss unless you insure your device for such loss. It is not covered by your warranty.
If your iPhone, iPod, iPod Touch, or iPad is lost or stolen what do you do? There are things you should have done in advance - before you lost it or it was stolen - and some things to do after the fact. Here are some suggestions:
This link, Re: Help! I misplaced / lost my iPhone 5 today morning in delta Chelsea hotel downtown an I am not able to track it. Please help!, has some good advice regarding your options when your iDevice is lost or stolen.
1. Reporting a lost or stolen Apple product
2. Find my lost iPod Touch
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4. What-To-Do-When-Iphone-Is-Stolen
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6. 6 Ways to Track and Recover Your Lost/Stolen iPhone
7. Find My iPhone
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Does find my phone work if you deleted the app?

Does find my phone work if you delete the app?

If you are asking if Find My iPad will work on your iPad if you delete the Find My iPhone app, the answer is yes. If you have Find My iPad turned on in Settings>iCloud, your iPad can be tracked. The Find My iPhone app is not to enable a device to be tracked, it's to allow you to track devices without having to go to icloud.com from your computer.

How does find my phone work

technically - not from the user side
So what is making it work

Welcome to the Apple Community.
Get her to log into her iCloud account on a computer at www.icloud.com where she can use the find my phone feature. If she has find my phone enabled, the phone will need to be on and connected to a network to be located.

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My it ouch is missing and find my phone can't locate it. Does this feature work if the battery is dead?

The FIndMyiPod feature quires that the iPod be on and wifi connected to the internet.
- If you previously turned on the FIndMyiPod feature and location service is on, and wifi is on and connected go to iCloud, sign in, and go to FindMyiPhone. It the iPod has been restored it will never show up.
- Report to police and change the passwords fro all accounts used on the iPod.
- Apple will not help
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My phone has been misplaced or stolen. Does find my iphone work off the SIM card. if the SIM card has been removed, will Find my Phone still work, provided the phone is on?

If the SIM card has been removed and the device has no active internet connection, then FMiP will not work, at least not immediately. If the device gets connected to wi-fi or to cellular data, then the FMiP will work again. That Activation Lock, however, doesn't require an internet connection.

How fast does find my phone track

How fast or often will i see where it is? Can i watch it move to follow it track?

There is no set time, apparently, because sometimes it can take hours for the data to appear. Find My Phone only saves locations for 24 hours then replaces them with the next 24 hours, etc.

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Hey all,
I have a problem with something that happened Monday. My fiancee was in the hospital sunday night but went to work monday anyways, and her sister picked her up from our house and dropped her off from work. So she didnt have a car all day. She works at a main campus but there is another smaller campus about 15 minutes drive away. We were texting all morning and then at 10:45am she stopped texting. No problem. After 45 minutes I got conerned because she was in the hospital a few hours before. I texted her "are you OK?". Nothing. I called her. Nothing. Another 30 minutes go by and being so concerned, I login to Find My Friends and she pops up as being at this smallar campus. Let me make it clear, she has nothing to do with this other campus and has no need to be there.
After a total of 2 hours of no responses, she texts me back and tells me she was in a meeting at her boses office (which is in the same biulding and floor as her own building). Confused, I login to Find My Friends again and now I see her at the shuttle stop at the smaller location. I watch it as she appears to have gotten onto the company shuttle that takes workers from the main campus to the smaller campus. So it appears FMF was 100% accurate as it was stationary at the smaller campus for 45 minutes, then jumped to the shuttle stop and then I watched the shuttle drive to the main campus through the city.
Now, the only saving grace is that her mom also has an iPhone. However, sometimes her mom would be logged into her Apple ID account (but never her iCloud account). Her mom updated her iPhone about 6 days ago to iOS 5. She created an iCloud account and verified it, but never setup the iCloud section in her settings and never installed Find my Friends on her iPhone. Her mom does work at this smaller campus. So, my question is could her moms deivce have replaced my fiancees device for Find My Friends? Even though she never setup the iCloud settings on her phone and Find My Friends was not installed??
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No, Find my friends would need to be installed, you change the device being followed from the find my friends settings. It could be either device being followed depending on the settings, not which was last logged in, you can choose any device to follow from any device, the chanes are then synced across all devices.

Does Find My Friends Require Push To Be On?

I know that Find My iPhone requires that Push be enabled on that device for it to be located. I tried turning it off because I actually don't want my emails pushed to my phone but then my phone/ipad showed as either location services disabled or device off line so I've had to keep push on for that. That's why I'm wondering if Find My Friends also requires that Push be on.

Find My Friends also requires that Push be on.
No.
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First, you should switch your CAP-LOCK OFF because it's rude and meant you're shouting.
Since IOS 7, there's this Activation Lock feature to stop thief re-using the iPhone. It cannot be bypass.
if you do not have the owner Apple ID & password to switch it off, you cannot use the iPhone.

HT201493 Does Find My Friends need an internet connection?

or will it work on just a telephone connection. I'm presuming that it needs to be able to access iCloud but can someone confirm that please, thanks

It will work with just a cellular signal too.

Does "Find my iPhone" need to be on all the time?

For it to track. Should I not "kill" the application in the multitask bar?

repo1234 wrote:
How so? If I'm on facebook, for example and I kill the app on the "Recently Used" bar, I have to logon again. If I just hit the home button, it runs in the background, and when I open FB again, it logs in.
It's not running in background. It is asleep. When you launch it again iOS wakes it up and it continues from where it was put to sleep by pressing the Home button. If you remove it from the quick-launch bar (got that name? It's quite descriptive) it is awakened by iOS long enough to shut down. So when you next launch it the app must start from the beginning.

TS4006 Why can't I get a list of previous locations dating back as far as my email notification on the find my phone app?

Why does find my phone only give me 24hrs to locate my iPod touch?

doreenfromlondon wrote:
I am getting really frustrated with this.
What "this" are you referring to?
doreenfromlondon wrote:
generally when I open settings, I just click on Wi Fi & it opens but nothing is happening
What "it" are you referring to? Since this thread is 3-years old, a little more explanation would be appropriate.

HT201365 How does find my iPhone work as far as finding it?

How does find my phone work if I can't find it?

it uses the location services to locate it. but the phone has to be on and connected to some sort of internet (cellular or wifi)

Does "Find my phone" need Push?

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