Lost phone - find my phone app question

When using "find my phone" app, how close in proximity is the phone to the actual map location shown on screen ?

That can vary based on a number of factors. There is no single correct answer.

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I need someone to answer a few Find my Iphone App questions?

I lost my phone overseas...I got too drunk and lost it at some bar..I thought I was lucky because I had signed up for the find my iphone app on the ICloud. When I tried to locate my Iphone through the services, It couldn't find my Iphone because it was "OFFLINE" I assume it was because it was out of battery, making it impossible to find it now.
So I requested that my phone be put it in "lost mode", but since it's currently offline, it's Pending! I also added a contact number and a 50$ reward for the return of my phone, so the next time my phone is turned on and connects to the internet, it will lock and the stranger using my phone won't be able to get in to it and steal my info right?...But, seeing as my time is almost up being overseas, it seems very unlikely I'll be getting my phone back. So I might have to get a new phone!
My Question is, if I click on "Erase Iphone" now, it will erase all the data on my phone, And it won't be able to be tracked anymore, that's all fine and good. But the thing is, since my phone is currently off line, it's currently a pending action and won't erase the data unless it's turned on and connected to the internet again....SO, if I were to get a New Iphone, (I am eligible to uprgrade) it would be risky right? Because if I get a new Iphone and get all comfy with a new iphone, and someone turns on my old IPhone, the "Erase Iphone" request will commence and it will delete all the data on my old iphone as well as my NEW iphone right?
Cause I will be using the same Apple ID for my new Iphone! I can only assume that this is how it works....Apple isn't very clear on how stuff like that works.
PLEASE PLEASE HELP!

You don't need to worry. It won't delete anything from iCloud or your new phone, it will only erase the data on the lost phone, and that will only happen if it ever goes online again.

Finding My iphone app question?

Is there a way, within the Find My Iphone app to "Look Back" at a previous location sight rather than the current one that is being displayed.
For example at 10:30 it says my phone was at the corner of broadway and main st, yet i want to know where the phone was at 10 o'clock or sowhen I previously looked for it? Can anyone help or know if this is possible to do, please let me know how, thanks....
Phil

You can purchases apps from the app store that will periodically email you the devices location. They are not that useful for an iPod since for emailing the iPod has to be connected to the internet. They work well with phones since the phones have GPS and can send the email over cellular.

Find my iPhone app question

I thought my phone was stolen but I got it back, it has an erase command scheduled in the Find my phone app, can I prevent this from happening? the phone is currently offline and blacklisted

Possibly. Go to https://icloud.com/find and try removing it from your account. If this doesn't work you will have to restore the phone from your most recent backup.

Hi i hv iphone 5 i got frn my uncle from kuwait n now m using it in india...i dont hv bill n i forgot icloud password...in my phone find my phone is on..nd i dont know the password...can i update it to ios 8..pls guide me as m new used of iphone than

Hi all its anir again...pls guide me the updating process OTA in my iphone 5 ..as i forgot the password..and find my phone is on..n dont hv icloud password...can i update it to ios 8 widout icloud password. ...
N tes can i reset it..

without the password you have a brick not an iPhone.

MacBook and "Find my Mac" app Question???

I recently had my MacBook stolen. I have called the police. I want to try and detect where my stolen MacBook is. Are there anyways in which the thief can hide the MacBook from the "Find my Mac" app other than staying offline? Also, I have two user accounts on my MacBook (User 1 and User 2). Will the app "Find my Mac" still work even though the person is logged onto user 2? I have done nothing to the user 2 account. It's just a basic account for the family to use when they want to try out my MacBook. I believe there was no password on the user 2 account. Please shed some light on this issue. I want my MacBook back!!!

Hello Ipanamick,
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
For more information, take a look at:
OS X Mavericks: About Find My Mac
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14345?viewlocale=en_US
As long as your lost Mac is connected to a Wi-Fi network and not asleep, you can locate it on a map. You can play a sound on it, lock it, or erase it completely if it’s connected to the Internet via Wi-Fi or Ethernet.
Have a nice day,
Mario

HT201472 If a I put my lost iPhone into lost lost via find my phone app will it still lock it as it says offline

Basically I went to put my iPhone 4 into lost mode and it said offline (which means they signed out my apple id ) put I clicked lost mode and anyway will it still lock even if it is offline

The device will automaticly lock itself once its connected to the internet.

TS3376 2 iPhones, 1 iTunes account, Find my IPhone app question.

My wife and I both have iPhones and use the same iTunes account. Consequently, this app only locates my phone and not hers. Is there a way to make it see both phones?

Does iTunes reconize your bf phone as diff from yours ? Should be his name.. Does he have his own apple ID?
He should have.. If those are both yes, then iTunes should reconize and seperate the two iPhone's. Also what operating system do u have? if it's windows u can use windows contacts and let your bf use yahoo so there is no confusion . Also it sounds like your contacts are in his iPhone back up and the same with yours....
Let me know if my babbling helps u lol ...

What are the options if one iPad was stolen last week and Apple created a bug which the burglar can turn off "Find My Phone"?

Last week, my gf was stolen and lost her iPad. I thought that everything was lost because "Find My Phone" didn't manage to track the iPad location so the police could do something.
Today, I ended up reading this article (http://9to5mac.com/2014/04/03/ios-7-bug-allows-anyone-to-disable-find-my-iphone- and-bypass-activation-lock-without-a-password/) which tells me that the iOS 7.1 presents a bug where someone can deactivate the "Find My Phone" function without the password.
What are the options here so I can rehave the stolen iPad, which Apple helped the burglar to keep it or even sell it?
Appreciate your cooperation

Apple didn't "help the burgler" do anything. Did she have a passcode on the device? If so, the thief would not have been able to access any of the functions needed to disable Find My Phone. Also, if the device doesn't show up in iCloud's Find My Phone, it may be that it is simply turned off, or not connected to a network.

Iphone 5s Lost/Stolen - Questions about Find my Phone on ios7

OK, I have done something very stupid but I need some advice anyway, will likely not ever get my phone back but I'm curious as to how it works.
1) I bought an unlocked iPhone 5s for travel.
2) I installed "find my phone" before leaving Canada
3) I came to China to live for 6 months and I inserted a China Unicom SIM card.
4) I purchased a cell phone plan that has basically no data
5) I then went into my settings and turned off Cellular Data for all apps (this was the stupid thing that I did without thinking).
Therefore, find my phone is off in Cellular Data. Last night my phone was lost and/or stolen. I immediately tried to use "find my phone." As soon as it said my device was offline I realized what I had done and how stupid it was. I did still set the lock and send it a messages so if for some reason it comes online it will be locked, but....here are my questions:
1) Will "find my phone" work over Wifi automatically if Cellular Data is off?
2) If my phone IS in the hands of a thief, is this even helpful? Could a thief just pop out my SIM card, insert their SIM card, somehow bypass my fingerprint/passcode (I know there are hacks for that) and then just turn off / disable Find My Phone? Because if they put in their SIM card and use 3G, but haven't started using Wifi yet, then "find my phone" won't be activated yet, correct?
3) So is my only hope to leave a thief with a worthless brick that they take the phone somewhere and try to use it on Wifi to set it up? IF they insert a new SIM and manage to hack my passcode, BUT they fail to deactivate "find my phone" and then they join a wireless network, would my phone immediately lock

Use Find My iPhone to track iPhone only if the following conditions are met:
1. Find My iPhone is ON and activated.
2. iPhone has Internet connection.
3. iPhone is not switched OFF.
To track
https://www.icloud.com/#find
Lost or Stolen
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5668

HT201472 can you guys please help me find my ipod because i lost it a week ago and i cant find it i've been trying really hard to find it but i cant cause i didn't set up find my phone before i lost it so my question is can you help me someway here my

can you guys please help me find my iPod because i lost it a week ago and i cant find it I've been trying really hard to find it but i cant cause i didn't set up find my phone before i lost it so my question is can you help me someway or somehow because my iPod i love it i would always take pictures with my friends and i have all my memories in it so i don't know where it is for all i know it could be on the street getting ready to get ran over because the last time i ever saw it was on last Sunday when i went to my cousins house when we were leaving i grabbed something to eat then i sat at the table then i left but i swear i had it in my pocket when i left but i didn't so i asked my cousin if he could look for it and he said sure so he started looking for it but didn't find anything and so i lost it sense and i asked my dad if i could get a new one and he said in a couple of years but i want that iPod back it has all my memories in it it's really special to me and i'm really desperate so please help me someway somehow anyway just help me please i don't know what else to do but beg for someone to help me because I've tried looking for it in my car in my room in my coats and nothing i tried looking for it on the website find my iPhone/iPod/iPad and it didn't help so please help me i beg of you if you are reading this and don't care you really are heartless because a little 12 year old girl can't find the most precious thing she got from her father 1 year ago and if you are reading this and you have a heart please help me find it if you do want to help me find it****
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You are not addressing Apple here. We are all just users like yourself
lost/stolen
No app on the iOS device is required.
- If you previously turned on FIndMyiPod/iPhone/iPad on the iOS device in Settings>iCloud and wifi is on and connected or cellular data is on and connected for, on a computer browser go to iCloud: Find My iPhone, sign in and go to FIndMyiPhone. If the iPod has been restored it will never show up or continue to show off-line.
- You can also wipe/erase the iOS device and have the device play a sound via iCloud.
iCloud: Erase your device
iCloud: Use Lost Mode
- If not shown, then you will have to use the old fashioned way, like if you lost a wallet or purse.
- Change the passwords for all accounts used on the device and report to police and carrier if iPhone or cellular iPad
- There is no way to prevent someone from restoring the erase (it erases it) using it unless you had iOS 7 or later on the device. With iOS 7 or later, one has to enter the Apple ID and password to restore the device.
- Apple will do nothing without a court order
Reporting a lost or stolen Apple product
- iOS: How to find the serial number, IMEI, MEID, CDN, and ICCID number

Ask your question.I installed the app" Find my phone for my Ipad. But I also installed that app on my Iphone. but the Iphone app still just shows where my Ipad is located and not the phone, how can I get then both to show location?

I installed the App" find my Iphone on my Ipad.. its working well.
But I also need to be able to track my Iphone if lost... I also have the app on my Iphone but when I click on it to find my phone it is showing me where my Ipad is... how can I get it to show my Iphone also? the chances of me losing my Ipad are less then my Iphone.But I need to be able to trac both.

How was your wife using the Find My iPhone app from a Samsung phone? But, that question aside, your wife should educate herself on how GPS works, especially on a cell phone. GPS signals can be interfered with by trees, buildings, clouds. Off by several miles would be unusual, though.
If your wife is tracking your cell phone and not believing what you tell her, you may want to consider counseling as there are some very serious issues that go way beyond the technology.
Best of luck.

I have lost my phone and want to use the find my iphone app to delete all the info on my phone. How can i do this on another persons iphone? do i need to log out of their icloud account and then sign in under mine?

I have lost my iphone 4s and want to use find my iphone app on my boyfriends iphone 3s to delete the info on my now lost phone. Do i need to log out of his icloud inorder to log into mine to do this on his phone?

You need to use the Find My iPhone app (in the itunes store - free). When invoking it on a device, you enter the ID password of the account the lost device is connected to. You can also use a computer's browser and log into icloud.com.

HT4061 I lost my I-Phone and do not have an I-Cloud account .. Is there anyway I can use "find my phone" app to help me locate it ?

I lost my I-phone 5 and do not have an I-cloud account .... Is there any other way I can use the "find my phone" app to help me locate it?
Or anyother way to locate it?

No.
No.
Sorry.
Change your passwords, alert your carrier.

I have the find my iphone app and I lost my phone and want to use it but how?

I have the find my iphone app and currently lost my phone and I am at work and would like to use the app now, but how?

brandt_2009 wrote:
I think I still have like 4.2.2 features, but I know I downloaded it to my phone I'm at work but now I don't know how to make the app work from my work computer. Is the iCloud account like the apple or iTunes account?
iCloud is Apple's new online service, replacing mobileme - http://www.apple.com/icloud/. The web account page is https://www.icloud.com/
Find my iPhone is a feature of iCloud - http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/find-my.html
And again, the downloadable app has nothing to do with making your iPhone discoverable by find my iphone. The app is used by a device to find another device which has had the trackable feature enabled in its iCloud account settings. Simply having the app on a device does NOT make that device trackable. In order to be able to find a device, you need to have an iCloud account on that device, and you need to enable the find-my-iPhone setting under that account - nothing to do with the app at all.

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