How To Find An Iphone That Is Off

Apple's Discover My app has been a very useful (and reassuring) characteristic, assuasive y'all to locate a misplaced (or stolen) phone then that you lot can retrieve it (or contact the authorities, if that's safer). With the expansion of Observe My to a variety of other objects, particularly via Apple tree's AirTags, it's become even more than useful.

And now that iOS 15 brings with it the adequacy to locate your phone even if the battery has run out or it's been turned off — if you've got the correct phone — the utility of Find My has become fifty-fifty greater.

Yous will be able to locate a shut-off telephone if you have the following:

iPhone 11
iPhone 11 Pro / iPhone 11 Pro Max
iPhone 12 / iPhone 12 Mini
iPhone 12 Pro / iPhone 12 Pro Max
iPhone 13 / iPhone 13 Mini
iPhone xiii Pro / iPhone xiii Pro Max

You'll know that this feature is active if, when you close your phone down, you lot meet the phrase "iPhone Findable Later on Ability Off" under the ability-down toggle.

Activate the Find My app

If you're new to the iPhone or have never set upwardly the Find My app nevertheless, here'southward how yous start:

Go to your settings, tap on your name, and and then on "Detect My."
Tap on "Observe My iPhone."
Toggle "Find My iPhone" on. If you accept upgraded to iOS xv, you can as well activate "Find My network," which will let yous find your phone even if it's offline. "Send Concluding Location" will transport the location of your iPhone to your Apple account when the battery is virtually to die.

And that'southward information technology! After that, if you can't notice your iPhone, then you tin can track it either by using the Observe My app on a Mac (or another iPhone, if you take 1) or on any browser by going to iCloud.com/find and signing in using your Apple ID.

If yous're using the web version, so yous'll see a green dot that locates your iPhone. Select the dot and then the circled "i" (for information), and y'all'll be given the choice of having your phone play a sound, erasing information technology, or putting it on "Lost Mode." In "Lost Way," you tin can enter a telephone number where you can be reached and a bulletin ("Please render this phone asap!"). After that, the telephone will be locked until you reenter its passcode.

*The Find My app lets you locate your phone, ship a notification, or erase it. (Note: the map has been blurred for privacy reasons.)*

If you're using the Observe My app, you'll get basically the same features (except in a more than aesthetically pleasing class), along with map directions on how to get to your phone.

And yep — if you lot're using iOS 15 on your iPhone, you will be able to locate it even if information technology'due south run out of battery power or has been shut off.

Find My can locate a phone even if it's off — as long as it has iOS 15 installed. — *Find My tin locate a phone even if information technology's off — every bit long as it has iOS 15 installed.*

(Annotation: you can as well utilise the Find My app to help with your own security — to share your location with individuals and send recurring notifications of when you get out and go far. Y'all can find directions for setting that up in our article "How to utilise iPhone's location tracking.")

Update September 29th, 2021, three:30PM ET: Updated to add data on which iPhones can be found after ability off.