
If your hardware is lost or stolen, you can opt to lock it or put it in Lost Mode, or erase it. Apple blocks using for Find My iPhone from an iOS device, for no reason I can determine. Once active, you can locate a device from the The iCloud system preference pane enables Find My Mac. If not, check its box and enter your iCloud password when prompted. In macOS, open the iCloud system preference pane and make sure Find My Mac is checked at the bottom. You’ll find an option there as well to send the last location of an iPhone or iPad when the device’s battery is nearly dead. The Find My iPhone item will show On or Off next to it, and you can tap it to drill down into settings to enable it when it’s off. You can check whether it’s enabled in iOS by visiting Settings > iCloud. You can opt in iOS to let your phone or tablet send its last position before its battery poops out. But you may have skipped that step, or later turned the feature off to erase and restore a device. * The Find My network is an encrypted, anonymous network of hundreds of millions of Apple devices that can help you locate your device.Apple encourages enabling Find My iPhone in iOS and Find My Mac in macOS when you set them up or when performing a major upgrade, like moving from iOS 9 to 10. Then select Location Services, select the Enable Location Services checkbox, and make sure that the checkbox next to Find My is selected. Earlier versions of macOS: Go to System Preferences > Security & Privacy, then click the Privacy tab and, if the padlock in the lower left is locked, click it and enter the name and password of the administrator.Next to System Services, click Details and make sure Location Services is turned on for Find My. macOS Ventura: Go to System Settings > Privacy & Security > Location Services.If you want to be able to find your lost device on a map, make sure that Location Services is turned on: To make sure that you can find your Mac if it's ever lost or stolen, check that Find My Mac is On and Find My network is On.* In earlier versions of macOS, click Options to check that both are turned on.
Scroll down, click Find My, then click Turn On.In earlier versions of macOS, click Apple ID, then click iCloud. In earlier versions of macOS, choose Apple menu > System Preferences. Choose Apple menu > System Settings.
