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While Apple offers Find My Friends for voluntary and informal location tracking, Find My iPhone doesn’t tie into that directly. Possibly a visit to an Apple Store or authorized repair center if you ever forget the password or you have a system failure.

Setting a firmware password avoids it, but adds a step and There’s a weakness in Find My Mac that’s worth pointing out: a clever thief can erase NVRAM (the replacement for PRAM) with the standard Command-Option-P-R startup sequence, and thenīypass Find My Mac. If you have FileVault enabled, it just has to shred the encryption key for that partition.) (In macOS, the machine reboots into the Recovery partition to wipe the main drive. For something with private information that you don’t want to get into someone else’s hands, hit Erase and the files go boom. Choosing this and tapping through the warning prompts wipes the remote device.

Lost Mode tracks a device as a trail you can view with Find My iPhone, while Lock shows only the current or last location.

The Lock version is an either/or: once you lock the device, you can’t erase it.

With Lost Mode, you can still choose to erase the device remotely.

Lost Mode can be disabled either on the device or via Find My iPhone, while Lock can only be disabled on the device.

Lost Mode requires an iOS device running iOS 6 or later, while the Lock feature works with all Macs and iOS 5 and earlier. 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. 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.