Lost My iPhone Heres How to Find It

If you've lost your iPhone, it can be terrifying. But Apple has built-in tools that can help you track down a missing device, and some of them even wipe the data off of it remotely.

Find My Your iPhone

If your lost iPhone is connected to the internet, you can check its location on a map and use Apple's built-in Find My app to play a sound, lock it remotely or erase it. If it's offline, you can also activate Lost Mode, which locks the device and displays a message on screen with a phone number that can be reached by anyone who finds it.





Get Help a Friend

The Help a Friend feature in the Find My app lets you log into your friend's iPhone browser with your Apple ID, bypassing the two-factor authentication that requires an iOS device to sign into iCloud. However, if you log into the Help a Friend feature more than once, it triggers additional iCloud security, so you'll need to log out of that browser before signing in with your own iCloud account.

Ping Your iPhone

When you have an Apple Watch or a lost iPhone with the cellular connection turned on, you can ping it to find it. Swipe up from the bottom of the screen on your Apple Watch to open Control Center, then scroll down until you find the "Ping iPhone" button. lone worker alarm Tap it once to make your iPhone do a ping and flash.