"Find my iPhone" doesn't find itself.

Hello,
first of all I want to excuse for my English skills and any mistakes in this text - I'm from Germany and still learning
But let's get to my problem:
As the headline says, the "Find my iPhone"-App. doesn't find my devices. It doesn't even find itself:
As you can see in the top bar I'm connected to my Wi-Fi network and of course to the internet.
As an additional information I want to say that it worked in the past - but I cannot tell you when or why it stopped.
I hope you got some ideas how to fix it for me.
Sincerely,
Jörg

Of course I tried locating it per web.
But fortuitously I found the solution today after waking up: There was a little switch at Settings -> iCloud -> Find my iPhone turned off. Now that I turned it on it works !
But thanks for all your quick replys anyway !!
Have a nice week.
Jörg

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