If you accidentally lose your iPhone, you can use the built-in [Find My iPhone] function to locate the phone.
If the device has been upgraded to iOS 15 or later, it can track location even when it is turned off.
Next, the editor will teach you how to locate and retrieve your lost iPhone!
First of all, let's take a look at how to enable the location tracking function of Apple mobile phones :
Open [Settings], find [iCloud], and log in to the iCloud service with your own Apple ID. If you don't have your own Apple ID account, you can sign up for one for free.
After successfully logging into the iCloud service with your Apple ID, click [Find] and enable the [Find My iPhone] function.
After turning on the [Find My iPhone] function in the settings, when the iPhone is lost, we can find it by location:
Log in to Apple's iCloud official website on your computer, or borrow your family and friends' Apple phones to open the [Find] app, and log in to your Apple ID account to locate your lost iPhone.
[Find My iPhone] will search according to the location information of the mobile phone to find the specific location information of the iPhone. The green dot displayed on the map is the location of the device.
Additionally, you can choose to play a ringtone, turn on Lost Mode, or erase all data on your iPhone.
1. Play sound
When you are close to the lost location of iPhone positioning, you can click [Play Sound]. Even if the phone is set to silent, the "beep beep" alarm will play at maximum volume for two minutes.
2. Lost Mode
You can also [Mark Lost] your iPhone. After the device is set to [Lost Mode], related functions will be restricted. You can follow the prompts to enter the contact number and leave a message, so that the kind person who accidentally picked up the phone will return it to you through the contact information.
3. Erase iPhone
If your iPhone cannot be found temporarily, and you are afraid that others will crack the lock screen password of the phone and leak private data, you can choose to erase the iPhone.
Click [Erase this device], and all the data on the phone will be erased, which is equivalent to restoring the factory settings. The device needs to enter the original Apple ID and password to activate it.
