With the Find My app, you can find the location of a missing device, have it play a sound - great if it’s at home and you can’t locate it - or in a worst-case scenario, you can mark the device as lost and erase it.

And one of your AirPods may have gone missing. You may have forgotten where you put your iPad last night. Your iPhone may have slipped between the cushions of your sofa, or you may have left it at work. We all sometimes need to find our devices: our iPhones, iPads, Macs, Apple Watches, and even our AirPods. You can mark them as lost, and even erase them remotely, protecting your data. You can find your lost iPhone, see where your keys are, if they’ve got an AirTag on them, and find that friend you’re supposed to meet in a busy shopping mall.įind My is not only for finding items, but also for protecting your Apple devices. I spent seven years writing breaking news for CNET as one of the site’s East Coast reporters. I've also written two books for Wiley & Sons- Windows 8: Five Minutes at a Time and Teach Yourself Visually LinkedIn.Software & Apps How to Use the Find My App to Locate Friends, Apple Devices, and AirTagsĪpple’s Find My app is a versatile tool for finding your friends, keeping track of your Apple devices, and locating lost items that you’ve protected with AirTags. Beyond PCMag, I've written news stories and tutorials for a variety of other websites and publications, including CNET, ZDNet, TechRepublic, Macworld, Popular Science, Time, Fortune, US News & World Report, and AARP Magazine. I've been working for PCMag since early 2016 writing tutorials, how-to pieces, and other articles on consumer technology. How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication.

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