How to use Activation Lock on Apple Watch
Apple Watch Activation Lock along with Find My iPhone prevents someone from using your Watch if it’s lost or stolen. Here’s how to make sure it’s turned on.
Find My iPhone
‘Find My’ in iOS 13 and macOS Catalina makes it easier to find the people and devices that matter to you
“Find My” is the brand new app Apple introduced at WWDC 2019, a combination of its other Find My products that makes it easier than ever to find the people and devices that are important to you.
How to use Apple TV to find your iPhone, iPad or Mac
Watching a movie or playing a game on Apple TV and discover your iPhone is missing? You can use Apple TV with Find My iPhone to locate your device.
How to use Alexa and Amazon Echo to find your iPhone
If you have an Amazon smart speaker you can use it to find your iPhone. This is how you set it up so you can just say Alexa, find my phone.
PingWatch gives your iPhone a more audible Lost and found tone
When you misplace your iPhone at home, you can use your Apple Watch to help you find it. This new tweak changes the sound your iPhone emits when it’s lost.
Apple is testing a unified Find My Friends and Find My iPhone app, working on Tile-like tags
The new Marzipan app for iOS and macOS reportedly allows devices to be tracked even when not connected to Wi-Fi or to a cellular network.
The world of hacking iCloud-locked iPhones
Creative hackers and scammers are using fake receipts and invoices to to steal iCloud passwords from a phone’s original owner and bypass Activation Lock.
How to find iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac & Apple Watch with your HomePod
Provided you have turned on Apple’s useful Find My iPhone service for your devices, you can tell your HomePod to locate a misplaced device or play a sound to help you find it In this step-by-step tutorial, we show you how.
How to disable Find My iPhone remotely
Find out how to disable Find My iPhone remotely. This is perfect if you sold your iPhone or iPad and forgot to turn off Find My iPhone.
How to check if the phone you’re buying was stolen
If you’re buying an iPhone or a non-Apple smartphone it’s always a good idea to check if it was stolen, here’s how.
Download Panols free via Apple Store app to create stunning panoramas for Instagram
Apple is giving away Panols for a limited time, a $1.99 savings, but only through its official Apple Store app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Created by Juan Arreguin, Panols allows you to share the panoramic photos taken with your iPhone, as well as other photos stored in your photo library, with Instagram users everywhere. Taking advantage of Instagram’s profile grid, Panols showcases your panoramas to their full effect in the standard three-across display view.
You can edit the name, description and geolocation of all your photos and be assured that your original photo will remain intact as the app uses a copy for all edits.
How to check Activation Lock status via Apple’s support pages
UnlockBoot has discovered that potential buyers of a secondhand iOS device can still check Activation Lock status by IMEI through Apple’s Support website.
