Ronni, The icloud route worked perfectly - very accurate. I guess I am so used to clicking on app icons - so I assumed that would do the trick. I found the phone at IKEA!
Bill On 6 Oct 2014, at 13:18, Ronni Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6 Oct 2014, at 11:33 am, Bill Parker <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Not sure how this is supposed to work. I have registered the app at iTunes >> via iCloud. It is switched on at my iPhone (4). I was under the impression >> that if I hit the Find on my mAcBook it would send me the GPS location of >> the phone, and cause the phone to make a noise. >> >> It does neither! >> >> Bill > > Hi Bill, > > The Find My iPhone App is for iOS devices (your iPhone & iPhone). > On your Mac in System Preferences > iCloud check you have 'Find My Mac' > selected. > > The first way to find your device is to use a Web browser. To do so, > <https://www.icloud.com> > sign in to the iCloud Web site and go to the Find My iPhone application. > > If you have only one device, the entire window shows a map on which iCloud > tries to locate that device. > If you have more than one device, a My Devices list appears in a box, select > a device to view location data. (If you have multiple Find My iPhone enabled > devices, when you open the Find My iPhone Web application, iCloud attempts to > locate all those devices. > > In the Devices list, a dot appears beside each device name to indicate its > status: gray means “trying to connect,” red means “location unknown,” and > green means “location determined recently.”) > > Assuming the selected device is turned on and online, the map shows its > current location (if it’s not turned on and online but has been recently, the > map should show the last known location, along with how recently its location > was determined). > > Just as in the Maps app on the device, the location becomes increasingly > specific as Find My iPhone zeroes in on its location using a combination of > cell tower triangulation, Wi-Fi network identification, and GPS, depending on > which of these are available. > > 1. Click on the Device you want (iPhone, iPad) > 2. Then click 'Play Sound. > > <http://help.apple.com/icloud/#/mm6b1aa045> > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014) > 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz > 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM > 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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