Hey Bill ... Has your wife been spending up big at IKEA!! ;-)) Cheers, Ronni
On 6 Oct 2014, at 1:52 pm, Bill Parker <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
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