By Olena Kagui Updated 10/22/2022 The iPhone Find My app is a great tool to find a misplaced, lost, or even stolen iPhone. While it is most commonly used to locate your own devices, you can also find someone else’s iPhone using this feature. The Find
My app allows you to help a friend find their iPhone, since it now cleverly combines the Find My iPhone and Find My Friends functions that Apple released previously. Related: How to Find Your
iPhone Even If It’s Dead or Offline Whether you have the latest iOS 16 or an older software version, you can find a friend's iPhone (or find your own iPhone from someone else's iPhone) by following these simple steps. Once you master this move, sign up for our free Tip of the Day newsletter to find more ways to be your friends' iPhone
savior. Let's cover how to use Find My iPhone for a friend: While searching for your lost device, I don't recommend using the third option in that bottom menu—deleting everything from the iPhone with the Erase iPhone button—unless you're sure the phone is in danger and the private data is at risk of being stolen. To help make this decision, you can read up on what Lost Mode does, and see if it will do an adequate job of
protecting the compromised iPhone. Now that you know how to find someone else's lost iPhone, you'll be very popular with your more forgetful friends! Read about how accurate Find My iPhone really is next. Master your iPhone in one minute a day: Sign up here to get our FREE Tip
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Olena Kagui is a Feature Writer at iPhone Life who lives in Hawaii. With a BA in International Relations from Anglo American University, Olena traveled the world. She has lived in Ukraine, the Czech Republic, China, and the USA. Olena won an excellence award for a controversial article, got a grant to blog from a war-zone, and published a short fictional story. She hopes to publish a full-length novel and continue writing up a storm on her blog The Travel Bug Bite! When she’s not typing or flying, she is loving on animals, crafting bizarre creations, and devouring all-you-can-eat sushi.
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