How to find a lost iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch or AirPodsĪs the Find My app features the Find My iPhone app as well as Find My Friends, you'll need to open the Find My app to track a lost Apple device, whether that's your AirPods or your Apple Watch.

How to set up Find My Friends and track an iPhone.

Open Messages > Tap on your chat with the friend you want to track > Tap on the circular icon above their name at the top of your display > Tap on Info > A map of their location will appear at the top. You can also track a friends location - who you share location data with - through Messages. Tap on this tab and you'll find the list of your friends and family that you have shared location data with. You'll see the two people that originally symbolised the Find My Friends app logo in the bottom left corner. Open the Find My app and you'll see four tabs at the bottom of your display.

How do I track my friends?Īny friends you already shared your location with, and vice versa, will still be available to track through the Find My app. Or you can ask Siri to find open it for you. If you can't find the Find My app, swipe left to right from your home screen and use the search bar at the top of your screen. It doesn't automatically take the place of the Find My Friends app on your home screen, which is why you might have been wondering where it got to. The Find My app has a grey background with a green circle and the blue location circle in the centre. Both are now within an app called 'Find My'. The Find My Friends app and the Find My iPhone app were combined in the release of iOS 13 in 2019. Here's what's happened and what Find My Friends has been replaced with. If you used the Find My Friends app and have updated your device, you will have noticed the orange icon with the two people side-by-side has vanished from your home screen.

(Pocket-lint) - Apple's software updates bring with them several new features but there is one change you may not have realised was going to happen until you couldn't find what you were looking for any longer: Find My Friends disappeared with iOS 13 in 2019.

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