The Find My app combines Find My iPhone and Find My Friends into a single app on iOS 13 or later, iPadOS, and macOS Catalina. If you need help finding it, use Search on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch or use Spotlight on your Mac.
If you have iOS 12 or earlier or macOS Mojave or earlier, set up and use Find My iPhone on your device. And learn how Find My iPhone works on iCloud.com.
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What you need
- Update your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to iOS 13 or later or iPadOS.
- Update your Apple Watch to the latest watchOS.
- Update your Mac to the latest macOS.
- Turn on Location Services and Find My [device].
Find a missing device
If you turn on Find My [device] before your device goes missing, you can use Find My to get it back, even if your device is hidden under a chair cushion, in another room, or somewhere across town. If Offline Finding is on, you can also find a device that's not connected to a network.
See it on the map
- Open the Find My app.
- Choose the Devices tab.
- Select the device to see its location on the map. If you belong to a Family Sharing group, you can see the devices in your group.
Play a sound
- Open the Find My app.
- Choose the Devices tab.
- Select your missing device, then choose Play Sound. If your device is offline, it won't play a sound until it connects to a network.
Get directions
- Open the Find My app.
- Choose the Devices tab.
- Select your missing device, then choose Directions to open its location in Maps.
If you don't have access to an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with Find My, you can locate a missing device from iCloud.com.
Mark your device as lost
Keep your information secure even if your device is missing. Use Mark As Lost to remotely lock your missing device with a passcode, display a custom message with your phone number on the Lock screen, and keep track of your device's location.
Mark As Lost can be used for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple Watch, and Mac.
Use Mark As Lost
- Open the Find My app and select the Devices tab.
- Choose your missing device.
- Scroll down to Mark As Lost and select Activate.
- Choose Continue, then enter your phone number if you want it to display on your missing device.
- Select Next. If you want, you can choose to enter a custom message asking the finder of your missing device to contact you.
- Select Activate.
Learn more about how to lock your Mac.
If you activate Mark As Lost
The missing device is remotely locked. If you have Apple Pay set up on the device, it is disabled. A confirmation email is sent to the primary email address associated with your Apple ID. When you recover your device, you will need to unlock it with your passcode.
Remotely erase a device
To prevent anyone else from accessing the data on your missing device, you can erase it remotely. When you erase your device, all of your information (including credit, debit, or prepaid cards for Apple Pay) is deleted from the device, and you won't be able to find it using Find My:
- Open the Find My app and tab the Devices tab.
- Select the device you want to remotely erase.
- Scroll down and choose Erase This Device.
- Select Erase This [device].
After you erase a device, you can't track it. If you remove the device from your account after you erase it, Activation Lock will be turned off. This allows another person to turn on and use your device.
Find a missing device from iCloud.com
When you log in to iCloud.com with the Apple ID that you used to sign in on the missing device, you can use Find My iPhone to locate the device, have it play a sound, mark it as lost, or erase it remotely.
If a friend's device is missing
You can help a friend find their device if it's missing and has Find My [device] turned on:
- Open the Find My app.
- Choose the Me tab.
- Select Help a Friend.
- Have your friend sign in to iCloud with the Apple ID they're signed in with on their missing device.
Migration Assistant copies all of your files to your new Mac so that you don't have to copy your files manually.
- If your files are currently on a Windows PC, follow the PC migration steps instead.
- If your new Mac is using OS X Mountain Lion v10.8 or earlier, follow the Mountain Lion migration steps instead.
Check software, settings and power
- Install all available Apple software updates on both Mac computers. Install any updates for your third-party apps as well.
- Make sure that your old Mac is using OS X Lion or later.
- Make sure that your old Mac has a computer name: Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Sharing and check the Computer Name field.
- Connect both computers to AC power.
Connect the computers to each other
- If both computers are using macOS Sierra or later, just make sure that they're near each other and have Wi-Fi turned on. If either is using OS X El Capitan or earlier, connect them to the same network using Wi-Fi or Ethernet.
- Or connect them using target disk mode and the appropriate cable or adapter. Then start up your old computer in target disk mode.
- Or connect your new Mac to a Time Machine backup of your old Mac.
Use Migration Assistant
On your new Mac:
- Open Migration Assistant, which is in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder.
- Click Continue.
- When asked how you want to transfer your information, select the option to transfer from a Mac, Time Machine backup or startup disk.
- Click Continue.
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On your old Mac:
If you started your old Mac in target disk mode or are migrating from a Time Machine backup, skip these four steps.
- Open Migration Assistant.
- Click Continue.
- When asked how you want to transfer your information, select the option to transfer to another Mac.
- Click Continue.
On your new Mac:
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- When asked to select a Mac, Time Machine backup or other startup disk, click the appropriate icon.
- Click Continue. You might see a security code.
On your old Mac:
If you started your old Mac in target disk mode or are migrating from a Time Machine backup, skip these two steps.
- If you see a security code, make sure that it's the same code as on your new Mac.
- Click Continue.
On your new Mac:
- You should see a list of backups organised by date and time. Choose the backup that you want to use.
- Click Continue.
Continuing on your new Mac:
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- Select the information to transfer.
- Click Continue to start the transfer. If you have a lot of content, the transfer might take several hours to finish.
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In the example above, John Appleseed is a macOS user account.If you transfer an account that has the same name as an account on your new Mac, you're asked to rename the old account or replace the one on your new Mac. If you rename, the old account appears as a separate user on your new Mac, with a separate home folder and login. If you replace, the old account overwrites the account on your new Mac, including everything in its home folder.
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After Migration Assistant has finished, log in to the migrated account on your new Mac to see its files. If you're not keeping your old Mac, learn what to do before you sell, give away or trade in your old Mac.