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How do you find an AirTag on the web
AirTags can only be tracked with Find My app, either on an iPhone/iPad or Mac - but not on the web.
Instructions from Apple for locating and AirTag:
Open the Find My app, then tap the Items tab.
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Can my son block me from finding him with my find my iphone app?
Yes - your son can block sharing of location in several ways.
The best you can do is enforce restrictions on the device to prevent changes to Find My Friend / Location settings, but if your son is ...
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Find my iPhone: Can everyone who i've shared my location with see each other's location?
Can everyone who i've shared my location with see each other's location?
No. Find my Friends would not automatically show everyones location to everyone.
Will the extra person be kept separate?
Yes....
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How are Apple devices maintaining persistent connections with Apple servers for things such as APN, FindMy network, etc
TCP/IP socket
The connection is likely a traditional network socket using TCP/IP. A keep-alive option can help maintain a quiet connection.
The interesting problem is how Apple choose to handle the ...
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How are Apple devices maintaining persistent connections with Apple servers for things such as APN, FindMy network, etc
Each device opens TCP v4 and/or v6 connection(s) over one or more of the following ports.
If you use a firewall or private Access Point Name for cellular data, your Apple devices must be able to ...
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Security risks of disabling "Find my iPhone"?
The security risk you endure is that you won't be able to trace the device location, and use the functionality in Find My iPhone for erasing the device, adding a message and giving off sound.
In ...
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Help police finding my iPhone
The police are not actively looking for your phone. You are. If they ever coincidentally come across a hoard of stolen phones they will check IMEI numbers. If one or more of the phones shows lock mode ...
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What should I do after my iPhone was stolen?
Sorry to hear that, but if you have your iPhone setup with iCloud then most likely you have Find my iPhone setup and by following these instructions you'll be able to place your phone in Lost Mode and ...
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Did Apple shut down the Activation Lock checker? Why?
Apple has closed this tool. It is no longer available without being an employee of Apple or being a member of Apple's Authorised Service Provider Program.
As for why, Apple hasn't publicly given a ...
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Can you wipe a MacBook pro's ssd if it doesn't have a firmware password?
Sorry, you're out of luck. If they boot into recovery mode, they can wipe the drive without going online. Even if they went online, your iCloud information is stored on the encrypted, unmounted drive ...
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Finding stolen AirPods
AirPods only note their location in Find My iPhone when they pair with your device. They have no built in location tracker and no way to communicate to the internet except through your paired iPhone ...
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My iPhone X was stolen. Will my iCloud be logged out if the person resets the iPhone using my phone's password?
Did you have two factor enabled? Does the thief have access to your recovery email?
Regardless there are things to do right away regardless so don't hesitate!
Refer to the Apple Support article:
If ...
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How do I locate spouse's misplaced iPhone 6S?
You cannot simply add a device to Find My iPhone - though Family Sharing will enable that automatically. Think of find my device like data backups, you need to set them up before you lose the item in ...
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Can a friend see how many times I have looked them up using Find My Friends
No.
When sharing location with friends using Find My Friends, the other person doesn’t know how many times their friends have looked them up. They don't get any notification or there isn't any log of ...
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4
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Which iPhones can be found when powered off?
iOS 15 introduced the Find My feature that works even when the device is turned off. The applicable models are: the iPhone 11 through iPhone 15.
Source: The Verge Guide to the iPhone
Find My ...
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I have activated 'Lost Mode' and 'Erase iPhone' but still the thief has access to my photos. How?
Question 1
Yes, the Find My iPhone service is working along with its various actions (e.g. Lost Mode, Erase iPhone, etc).
Question 2
This leaves us with how they accessed your data and what may ...
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Will my iPhone ring once Lost Mode is deactivated?
Normally if a device is in Lost Mode, you can just play a sound using Find My iPhone directly. Choose the Play Sound option which will play a sound on the device for 2 minutes at full volume ...
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Can Find My iPhone be linked to multiple devices?
Yes, you can have multiple devices linked to a single Apple ID each with Find My iPhone turned on, and they will be tracked individually. You can switch between showing different devices (or all ...
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How accurate is the location detection on the iPhone's Find My iPhone app
Location in phones is a combination of:
GPS (from Satellites)
Cell phone network triangulation
Often now uses Wifi assist.
Even though it might seem like Wifi should be more accurate, GPS is best. ...
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Does send last location work with location services off?
Location services need to be turned on in order for Send Last Location to work. If it's turned off, like you have it, no location will be tracked.
You can turn on Location Services in Settings > ...
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Will iOS upgrade require me to enter iCloud password?
Looks like this answers my question:
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/ios
Quote:
Apple ID
You'll be asked for your account name and password after updating.
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is there a notification on find my macbook?
Tested empirically...
No, not until I "Played a sound", which played & put up a dialog on the Mac, then I was sent an email, within 2 seconds, which of course arrived on both my iPhone & Mac ...
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Find my iPhone shows family members' devices
That’s due to Family Sharing, indicated by the “…’s Devices” header on each section. If you’re an adult member of Family Sharing, you see all the family devices on Find My iPhone.
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Can someone fool me with their location on 'Find my iPhone'?
the guy ... knows how to google things very well.
Which is not the same as being a competent software engineer, and that's what you will need to be to send false info to Apple's location services.
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Security risks of disabling "Find my iPhone"?
Find My iPhone Activation Lock was introduced in iOS 7 as a way of preventing stolen devices from being reused by later purchasers. But as far as security risks, Apple (let alone anyone else) cannot ...
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How does the Tech Support know my exact location given my location services is turned off?
There could be multiple sources that Apple has received your location from.
Even if you do not think about it, your IP addresses is actually transmitted to the web server (Apple's server) every time ...
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How do you find an AirTag on the web
You can't find it on the web using https://www.icloud.com/find.
It is only visible in the owner's iPhone via the Find My app. It works away from the owner's phone.
Basically, it updates its location ...
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Find my iPhone: how to identify each device?
If you load the image of your device in "Find My iPhone" in a new tab, you are able to get the model identifier ID from the URL. As an example, here's the URL for an iPad that I lost quite a while ago:...
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How accurate is the location detection on the iPhone's Find My iPhone app
iPhone fell off my belt riding a motorbike across an enormous field at a model airplane contest. Got a friend with a laptop with a hotspot, linked my iPad to it, and got the location of the phone with ...
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How do I change a device name from the iCloud web site?
You change the name on each device in: Settings > General > About > Name.
The web site only reports what the device calls itself and does not offer a push rename feature or relabel feature.
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