My niece has an I phone that she uses with wifi but 0 phone service. She can't find it. I have an android but my mother has an I phone.... can we locate it or last location? I phone 11.
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Original Title: How can my mother use her I phone to find another I phone device with 0 service
iPhone 11
The only way to track an iPhone requires that Find My was enabled before the phone was lost and it is connected to a network. If Find My was not enabled, the phone cannot be tracked electronically, even if it is connected to a network. The network doesn't have to be cellular, but it must be on Wifi and connected to a Wifi network.
See this for more information --> Find your lost iPhone or iPad - Apple Support
Well, it's obvious that you won't be able to locate the phone using any kind of online Internet connection.....unless....the phone is connected to a Wi-Fi network with a good Internet connection.
We assume that Find My was enabled on the phone.....before.....it was lost.
If the phone is missing around home, the phone would likely be connected to the Wi-Fi unless the battery has run down or the phone was powered off.
If the phone was lost or stolen outside of the home, then there would be about a zero chance that the phone could connect to a Wi-Fi network on its own.
Use a browser on any device and enter www.icloud.com/find and enter the Apple ID and Password of the iPhone.
If the phone has a good Internet connection where it is located, it will appear on the Find My map.
I you see an "Offline" message, the phone is not connected to the Internet where it is located. About all that you can do is keep trying a few times each day to see if the status of the phone might have changed.
If "No Device Found" appears, Find My was probably not enabled on the phone, so any efforts to locate the phone will not be successful.
And the location will be updated if another iPhone comes within bluetooth range, even without cellular/wifi connection. Correct?
But, even if your phone is turned off, Bluetooth will continue to operate for the next few days. If there are any other iPhones in the area, they will pick up the Bluetooth signal to help report on the location of your phone when you use Find My to try to locate the phone.
Usage of Bluetooth for Find My & Location… - Apple Community
Good catch. Temporary brain memory loss, assuming that Find My Network was enabled on the iPhone.
I've found the Bluetooth method to be really "iffy" even when I test with the "lost" phone in the same room with another iPhone.
Locating an iPhone with 0 service using another iPhone
