Find My not working on my new Mac Book Pro

Even a senior tech at Apple cannot figure out why the FindMy is not working for my new 2024 Mac Book Pro OS Sonoma 14.6.1. It's not a hardware problem because it works when you set up a new account. Any ideas would be appreciated. (Have done locations services and tried to activate "find my" in settings many times - it lets me "turn on" but then shows it as off. Spent hours with Apple tech trying to resolve to no avail.).

MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 14.6

Posted on Aug 10, 2024 10:36 AM

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Posted on Aug 20, 2024 06:14 PM

I had exactly the same problem. What fixed it for me was sigining out of iCloud, then signing back in.

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Aug 10, 2024 03:02 PM in response to Pied777

By far the easiest way to cause poor performance, instability, overheating and crashing is to install ANY third-party speeder-uppers, Cleaners, Optimizers, or Virus scanners, Bit Torrent, or a VPN that you installed yourself. They are relentless in scanning your files, non-stop, looking for virus-like patterns in Everything, or looking for files that have changed. When completed, they do it all again.


are you running anything like that?

Aug 10, 2024 03:12 PM in response to Pied777

Consider downloading and running this little "discovery" utility, Etrecheck. It changes NOTHING. Etrecheck was developed by senior contributor here, and uses system calls to collect often-needed information.


it contains little tests for speeds of devices, CPU utilization, memory usage, energy usage and a digest of recent problems, in one easy to use package. it does not even need to be Installed. Because less can be learned when your Mac is running great, best time to run is when your problems are actually occurring, if possible.


if you follow the directions faithfully, its report (pre-laundered of all personally-identifiable information) can be "Shared" to the System ClipBoard, then Pasted into an ‘Additional Text’ window in a reply on the forums.


Use Etrecheck pro for free:

http://Etrecheck.com


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