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Find My iPhone in iOS 8 Complete Guide.
Got a new iPhone? Please don’t forget to turn on the excellent feature ‘ Find my iPhone ’. You will say thanks to apple especially for this particular app if you ever discovered that your iPhone get lost. It could be leaved at work, in coffee shop, or someone has stolen it. But you wouldn’t have to worry during such wired time because this feature will allow you to track the handset to its current location. It also provides you the facility to make the device playing a sound so you can find the exact location, or even you can remotely wipe all data in case if you fear the handset has been stolen.
The ‘Find my iPhone’ service is free, and it is very easy to set up. This feature is also works on your iPad and Mac, so you can keep track of all your Apple devices anytime anywhere..
How to use Find My iPhone in iOS 8:
Turn on Find my iPhone in Settings
The feature ‘Find my iPhone’ uses your iCloud account to store and sync data, so you’ll must need an iCloud account to use the service. You just need to keep in mind that Find my iPhone uses your Apple ID to correlate devices with your account, so you’ll need to use the same one on all of them.
The turning on process of the feature Find my iPhone is very simple. Just follow the steps.
Step 1: Just go to the Settings -> iCloud->Find my iPhone.
Step 2: Then slide the virtual switch to the right until it goes green. This means that the feature has got activated.
But remember that when an iPhone is turned off, or its charge level gets below the warning, then this feature cannot work as there didn’t any signal being sent from the device. So this could be very unlucky for you if you’ve left your phone somewhere and the battery drains before you get realized that it’s gone. With Send Last Location you will at least know where it was when the power finally ran out.
Step 3: Beneath the Find my iPhone setting you’ll find another option named ‘Send Last Location’. It means that your iPhone will send location data to Apple just before each time it runs out of battery. Slide the switch across to enable this essential feature.
Read : How to Enable Send Last Location in iOS 8 on iphone
Step 4: One last thing to check is that either the Location Services have been enabled or not, as it allows your devices to be get tracked by the Find my iPhone feature.
Go to Settings>Privacy>Locations Services to make sure.
Using the feature via the iCloud website:
If you don’t have another Apple device, and you have failed to manage the other one then you don’t have to worry. You can get access to the feature Find my iPhone via the iCloud website.
Step 1: You just have to simply log in with your Apple ID, launch the Find my iPhone app and you’ll notice a map with the location of your gadget displayed.
Step 2: Then just click on the green dot and when the gadget name is shown click the information icon on the right.
Step 3: Now you’ll get the same three options – Play Sound, Lost Mode, and Erase iPhone or iPad – as it would be seen on the Find my iPhone app.
That’s it, i hope you like this Guide and if you feel its useful then don’ forget to share it with your Friends and family members on Facebook,Twitter and Google plus.
