How To Find Iphone Version In Settings

Apple's Find My app has been a very useful (and reassuring) feature, allowing yous to locate a misplaced (or stolen) phone so that you lot can retrieve it (or contact the government, if that's safer). With the expansion of Discover My to a diverseness of other objects, specially via Apple's AirTags, it's become even more useful.

And now that iOS 15 brings with it the capability to locate your phone even if the battery has run out or information technology'due south been turned off — if y'all've got the right phone — the utility of Find My has get even greater.

You volition exist able to locate a close-off phone if you lot have the following:

iPhone 11
iPhone 11 Pro / iPhone 11 Pro Max
iPhone 12 / iPhone 12 Mini
iPhone 12 Pro / iPhone 12 Pro Max
iPhone 13 / iPhone 13 Mini
iPhone xiii Pro / iPhone xiii Pro Max

You lot'll know that this feature is active if, when y'all shut your phone down, yous see the phrase "iPhone Findable After Power Off" nether the power-down toggle.

Actuate the Find My app

If yous're new to the iPhone or have never fix upwards the Notice My app even so, hither's how you get-go:

Become to your settings, tap on your proper noun, then on "Notice My."
Tap on "Detect My iPhone."
Toggle "Discover My iPhone" on. If you lot have upgraded to iOS fifteen, you lot tin also activate "Find My network," which volition allow you observe your phone even if it'due south offline. "Send Terminal Location" will send the location of your iPhone to your Apple account when the bombardment is about to die.

And that'due south it! After that, if you tin't find your iPhone, and then yous can track information technology either by using the Find My app on a Mac (or another iPhone, if you have one) or on any browser by going to iCloud.com/discover and signing in using your Apple ID.

If you're using the web version, and then y'all'll encounter a green dot that locates your iPhone. Select the dot and then the circled "i" (for information), and you'll be given the option of having your phone play a audio, erasing it, or putting it on "Lost Mode." In "Lost Mode," you tin enter a phone number where y'all can be reached and a message ("Please return this telephone asap!"). Afterwards that, the phone will be locked until you lot reenter its passcode.

*The Find My app lets you locate your telephone, transport a notification, or erase it. (Note: the map has been blurred for privacy reasons.)*

If you're using the Find My app, you'll become basically the same features (except in a more aesthetically pleasing form), forth with map directions on how to go to your phone.

And yes — if you're using iOS 15 on your iPhone, y'all volition be able to locate it even if it's run out of battery power or has been shut off.

Find My can locate a phone even if it's off — as long as it has iOS 15 installed. — *Discover My can locate a phone even if information technology'south off — as long as it has iOS 15 installed.*

(Note: you can besides apply the Discover My app to help with your own security — to share your location with individuals and transport recurring notifications of when you leave and arrive. You can observe directions for setting that upwardly in our commodity "How to apply iPhone's location tracking.")

Update September 29th, 2022, 3:30PM ET: Updated to add information on which iPhones tin be found afterwards power off.