Here Are All the Ways to Ping a Lost IPhone
If you’re reading this article, chances are you’ve lost your iPhone and were looking to Google for help. I feel your pain. You don’t know if you left it at a restaurant after dinner, it was stolen, or it’s hiding between the cushions of your sofa. To make matters worse, if your iPhone is disabled, you won’t even be able to call it to find it. However, there is a way to make it make noise no matter what settings are enabled: you just have to ping it.
What does it mean to “ping” an iPhone?
Depending on how familiar you are with the iPhone and Apple products, you may or may not be familiar with “ping”. This is not a failed attempt by Apple to turn iTunes into a social media platform (yes, that actually happened ). I’m talking about making your iPhone produce a high-pitched tone no matter where it is.
Ping is undoubtedly responsible for reuniting many iPhone owners with their $1,000 lifeline with the rest of the world. It’s the perfect tool for finding iPhones lost under car cushions and seats, or on movie theater floors. (Please wait until the movie ends to check your phone.)
Ping is the preferred method for locating a missing iPhone in your immediate area because it doesn’t matter whether the phone is on silent mode or not. Calling on an iPhone certainly works well if you have the volume turned up at full volume, but without a blaring ringtone, your phone calls will be in vain.
Plus, we don’t always have access to another phone to call in such emergencies. Unless you’re with a friend or don’t have the nerve to ask a stranger to use their phone, you won’t be able to call your phone without your phone . So, ping.
Apple allows members of the Apple ecosystem to easily ping their iPhones. In fact, he offers three different methods for doing this. Check out all three below and pick one up the next time your iPhone goes missing.
How to check iPhone using Find My
The Find My app is suitable for more than just iPhone connectivity. Since it tracks the location of many of your Apple products, you’ll probably be able to see the phone on a map as well. Once you go to Find My, you will be able to determine where the phone is without checking it at all. However, if you already know that your iPhone is in your home, but you just don’t know where exactly, this is where ping comes in handy.
If you have an Apple device connected to the same Apple ID as your iPhone, you can launch Find My there. Simply search for “Find My” on your Mac or iPad to open the app. If you don’t have your Apple device connected, you can log into icloud.com and select Find My from here. Either way, select your iPhone from the list and click ” Play Sound ” to ping it. At first, your iPhone will simply vibrate. However, after a few seconds it will start making a high-pitched sound. This sound will continue to play until your iPhone is found (or you stop the sound using Find My), so keep that in mind.
How to check iPhone using Apple Watch
If you have an Apple Watch, you can use it to ping your iPhone. Of course, it’s much faster to press a button on your watch than to reach for Find My, so if you have one of Apple’s wearables, I recommend you use that first.
The option to ping your iPhone is in the Apple Watch Control Center. To access it, press the side button on your watch. (If you’re using an older version of watchOS, swipe up on the watch face.) Either way, press the button with the image of an iPhone with sound waves. This will ping the iPhone, but only for a few seconds, unlike Find My’s endless ping.
However, this Apple Watch button has a hidden function. If you hold it down rather than tapping it, your iPhone’s LED will also blink. This way, if the speaker is a little muted, you can also rely on the flash to help you find your phone.
How to check iPhone using Siri
If you don’t have an Apple Watch, Siri is another quick way to find your lost iPhone (or anything else). Simply launch Siri on one of your connected Apple devices and ask it to find the device you’re looking for. For example, you can ask Siri on your Mac to check your iPhone or ask your iPad to check your Mac.