Say to your HomePod: “Hey Siri where’s my iPhone?”.

You might be thinking you could equally call your iPhone from another device – which is true, but assumes that you have the audio on and that you don’t have multiple other devices that will start ringing when your iPhone is called! You can use your Apple Watch or a HomePod to ping it, if you have either of those devices. But there’s a quicker way: if you think you have just misplaced your iPhone at home, in the office, or at any venue where you are currently residing, you can ‘ping’ your iPhone to get it to play a sound so you can locate it. My daughter’s first piece of advice, when I told her I was writing this article, is that if you have lost something tidy up because then you’ll find it. There are two places you might have left your iPhone. How to find a lost iPhone (even if it is offline or turned off) There is a section below that explains how to do this.

However, you might be able to use the information provided by Find My to help the police with their enquiries. (He claimed he lashed out in self defence after being stabbed by the mugger, pleaded guilty to culpable homicide, and was jailed for six years.) There was even a case of a man tracking down and killing the person who stole his son’s iPhone. There have been cases of people attempting to recover stolen iPhones using Find My iPhone and being hurt, or worse.

What you should never do is attempt to retrieve your iPhone if you think it has fallen into the wrong hands.

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