Find My Mac turned on in multiple locations, but not working

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Find My Mac turned on in multiple locations, but not working

I noticed on my iPhone that my Macbook was listed in Find My Mac, but it showed it as off. I have gone through every troubleshooting step I found and nothing resolves it.

I am on a MacBook Pro using macOS Sequoia 15.5.

Here are the steps I have taken:

Gone to Privacy & Security and turned on Location Sharing, went to system services list and made sure Find My Mac was toggled on. In the location sharing list made sure Find My Mac was toggled on.
I have signed in and out of my Mac and iPhone iCloud accounts. Everytime I sign back into my Apple account on the Mac, it requires me to enter the password for Find My Mac, both my Apple password and my computer password. It all signs in successfully.
I had 2 other user accounts listed, and deleted those since Apple said it will only work on one account at a time. (I am the admin for this Mac and have rights to delete accounts.)
I have restarted numerous times after I have adjusted other settings.

When I go to my Apple account - iCloud - it shows Find My Mac as on. But if I look at Devices, and click on my computer name, it shows Find My Mac - off, and that seems to be what is preventing it from finding my Mac with my iPhone or if I open the Find My app on the Mac.

Here are the screenshots showing all the places where it has the Find My Mac status. The last one shows the only place it is listed as off.

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MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 15.5

Posted on Jun 6, 2025 9:21 AM

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Answer 1

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seamusberkeleyfineart

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25 points

Aug 10, 2025 2:15 PM in response to sandishowalter

This seemed to work on MBP M1 and Mac mini M1 running Sequoia 15.6:

Install Sequoia 15.6
Shut down device
Boot into Safe Mode
Turn off Find My in System Settings > Privacy & Security > Location Services
Turn off Location Services in System Settings > Privacy & Security
Turn off Find My Mac in System Settings > Apple Account > iCloud > Saved to iCloud > See All
Shut down device and wait a few minutes
Startup device normally
Reverse settings steps 4 through 6 above
Repeat steps 7 and 8
Wait up to 24 hours

These steps worked for both devices, which eventually showed up after as long as a 24 hour wait.

Does this actually work or is it something in iCloud services that just gets corrected by some method there? No idea.

Best news is that all devices are now showing up in Find My on all devices.

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Answer 2

nadya137

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8 points

Sep 24, 2025 8:29 AM in response to sandishowalter

Fixed !!

Steps:

Boot in safe mode.

Check if find my is now turned "on" and displaying correct location.

If it is, then try to restart in normal mode and see if issue is fixed.

If issue is not fixed after restarting then go to settings, general, login items and extensions.

Turn off all login items.

Restart then check if issue is still there, if issue is resolved, then 1 of the login items is creating the issue.

Now you need to go through each login item 1-by-1, restarting every time to find which application is creating the issue. When found, remove and re-install application or turn off the open on login for that application.

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Answer 3

lkrupp

Level 7

21,979 points

Jun 26, 2025 9:50 AM in response to sandishowalter

Same here and along with other posts about this I’m starting suspect a bug. See this discussion thread of what I have tried and what another has offered in a series of terminal commands.

Bat Call for suggestions Find My not enab… - Apple Community

Use the Feedback system to submit this to Apple. If enough users report it Apple might look into it.

Feedback - macOS - Apple

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