If you only locked your system you should be able to regain access to your stuff. If the computer has been wiped by the thief, find my mac may not work for it, and it will likely continue to show offline. If a location is displayed on the map, its found your computer. So i was playing around with the find my iphone app and remotely locked my macbook. The find my app combines find my iphone and find my friends into a single, easytouse app on mac, ipad, and iphone. How to wipe your macbook before selling or giving it away. Activation lock still present after erase all content and. Some features are not available in all countries or regions. Be sure you have an uptodate backup of your important files and data. Once you set it up on your mac, then you can locate your mac from very easily.
Nov 06, 2012 so i was playing around with the find my iphone app and remotely locked my macbook. Nov 21, 2019 using find my mac to lock or wipe your mac. Im starting by doing a full backup and, just to make it interesting, putting the phone in airplane mode. In spite of its name, the find my iphone app and find my iphone feature in icloud can. How to find a stolen mac and protect data from thieves. Find my mac does as it says on the tin, it finds your mac.
After macos installation is complete, the mac restarts to a welcome screen and asks you to choose a country or region. What happens when you erase an iphone with the find my iphone. Protect your mac, iphone and ipad against theft with hiddenapp for individuals and families. As you can see, it offers three wiping options for your needs, erase filefolers and wipe drive and wipe unused space, you seleect the one based on your actual needs step 2 select the file type you need to wipe. How to find and view iphone backup files on mac updated. If it happens to get lost or stolen, you will know exactly where it is, and precise location information like this can help you or the proper authorities recover your. Our resident mac help guru, peter cohen, previously told us about the other storage category on mac computers and what it catalogs. Click erase to begin wiping everything on your mac. The macbook shut down and restarted but i was never prompted to enter the passcode that i set when locking it via my iphone. With the help of this program, you are allows to erase data including contact, message, call history, calendar, email, note, reminder, itunes. Your mac will erase and lock itself when it is next online.
Hidden antitheft protection for your mac, iphone and ipad. After you follow the steps to verify your identity, youll see the passcode that you need to unlock your mac. Currently you can access the find my mac service from an iphone or ipad using find my iphone soon to be known as find my, and a mac or pc by visiting the. Find my can help you locate your devices and your friends and family. How to track a lost computer with find my mac macworld.
Dec 30, 2019 if you read not my text but apples, it says that to start the process of removing activation lock, you click on the button labelled erase mac. Erase all the data on your missing device remotely. How to remove your device from find my iphone wikihow. If you have already set up find my iphone, then do the following to erase your device. Now, simply select the books that you want to delete. The new find my app combines find my iphone and find my friends into a single, easytouse app on ios, ipados, and now macos.
To remove all of your content and settings from storage, erase iphone. Remove your lost or stolen device from your list of trusted devices. We also boast an active community focused on purchasing decisions and technical aspects of the iphone, ipod, ipad, and mac platforms. Jun 25, 2018 much of it has been divided out through other categories so its easier to find and remove. Activation lock still present after erase all content and settings. You should see your old mac as offline in the list of devices. Wipe the disk entirely in another system, no recovery hd, nothing. Oct 27, 2016 my iphone was stolen and i have a lot of personal and sensitive information on my phone.
Find my mac is the best way to find and protect your lost or stolen mac. As you can see, it offers three wiping options for your needs, erase filefolers and wipe drive and wipe unused space, you seleect the one based on your actual needs. It should be used as a last resort because erasing the. To track your device, you can either sign into the icloud website or use the find my iphone app for iphone or ipad. Locked macbook with find my iphone macrumors forums. How to remotely erase your iphone, ipad, macbook or any. Umate pro comes with an option that allows users choose the exact files they want to delete or erase. If you dont see this option, youll have to click erase iphone ipad mac first, and then follow the onscreen instructions to delete the data remotely. Apples find my iphone feature is a useful tool for tracking down lost or stolen devices and ensuring your personal information is protected. I notice when i plug in my phone to my computer and look at whats on this iphone it says that i have a book on there one that was a free download from something or other, but i dont have ibooks installed on my phone. How to track, disable, and wipe a lost iphone, ipad, or mac.
Simply install this free app, open it, and sign in with the apple id you use for icloud. Download and install the program on your mac, then launch the program from desktop shortcut. Thats all about how to factory reset your mac and erase everthing. To turn on find my iphone on mac, follow the same steps, but check find my mac at the end, provide your password, and click allow. Tap the gray play sound button featuring the speaker to have your phone play a highpitched ping continuously for two minutes, or tap the gray erase iphone button followed by the erase iphone confirmation to completely wipe your device of all content. If asked, enter your passcode or apple id password.
And now it can help you find your devices even when theyre offline. In spite of its name, the find my iphone app and find my iphone feature in icloud can track ipads and macs as well as iphones. Im going through this now, just out of curiositylate night boredom, and will edit as things progress. Click erase this device, then do one of the following. All you need is your apple id, another computer or your iphone, and youll be able to locate your mac, lock it, or erase all of its data. How to turn off find my iphone for all models igeeksclub. Sign in to icloud to access your photos, videos, documents, notes, contacts, and more. How to wipe a mac remotely with icloud and get the data back. Remove mac from find my iphoneipadmac apple community. If you want to leave the mac in an outofbox state, dont continue with the setup of your system. Jan 30, 2012 use find my mac part of the free icloud service, find my mac is the os x version of the find my iphone ability that lets you quite literally pinpoint a mac precisely on a map. Annual fee for three devices is cheap for a layer of peace of mind beyond find my iphone.
Someone told me i need to erase my broken iphone before i send it back. What to do before you sell, give away, or trade in your mac. How to permanently wipe a mac clean to sell erase mac clean. After deleting everything on your mac, you can now reinstall macos. If macbook has been wiped, will find my iphone still. At the bottom of the screen you will see the my books button, tap it. Find my iphone and find my friends are still preinstalled and available on ios 9 and later. First, let us disable the find my iphone on our device itself. If you read not my text but apples, it says that to start the process of removing activation lock, you click on the button labelled erase mac. Erase all content and settings from iphone apple support. However, it turns out that its easy to disable find my mac, which could be bad news if your mac is stolen or good news if youre dealing with an old mac that wasnt properly reset.
On this my books screen, look at the top right hand corner of the screen for the select button and tap it. However, it turns out that its easy to disable find my mac, which could be bad news if your mac is stolen or good news if youre dealing with an old mac that wasnt properly reset the two main reasons to enable and use find my mac are to help. Step 1 download and install the wipe mac application, run it. You can also use it to remotely lock or erase your mac. As useful and convenient as find my mac is, it does come with a caveat. So, before anything happens and your mac goes missing you must set up find my mac on it. Choose your macs system drive, usually named macintosh hd, then click erase. I just did it for the macbook air i sold recently and it solved the issue.
Find my can help you locate a missing family members iphone, mac, ipad, or apple watch even if its offline and sleeping. Now, tap on the icloud section in the settings tab. If you set up find my mac before your mac was lost or stolen, you can use it to locate your mac on a map, or play a sound to help you find it. In the devices list, select the device you want to erase, then click the info button on the map. That copies the things youve purchased using the iphone or ipad back to the mac or pcugh. Since your mac doesnt have a gps chip or a permanent data connection, find my mac wont always locate your mac the way the similar feature can with an iphone. Permanently delete mac, ipad, ios device from find my iphone. You can still clean out old and unnecessary content from your mac with macos sierra and high sierra by using optimized storage. For example, erase iphone before you sell it or give it away. Sep 17, 2019 first, let us disable the find my iphone on our device itself. Select reinstall macos and follow the onscreen instructions to finish. Heres how to see the passcode that you used to lock your mac. How to delete all data from iphone permanently on mac.
Currently you can access the find my mac service from an iphone or ipad using find my iphone soon to be known as find my, and a mac or pc by visiting the icloud website and logging on, well. Once the device is erased, click remove from account. The best way to restore your mac to factory settings is to erase your hard drive and reinstall macos. What happens when you erase an iphone with the find my. Find my device is the only way that you can track or locate a lost or missing device. How to erase your iphone, ipad, or ipod touch apple support. How to set up find my mac and locate, lock or erase your mac.
Navigate to the settings menu on your iphone or ipad. First did you do an icloud backup or create a local backup on a hard disk drive before you deleted your macbook pros drive. My mac book and iphone xr share an apple id and im sending my iphone back because of the broken screen and it wont turn on. May 12, 2018 if you are an iphone user, then find my mac is same as find my iphone. Click erase, confirm the action if prompted, and wait until. If you misplace your iphone, ipad, ipod touch, or mac, the find my iphone app will let you use any ios device to find it and protect your data. If you want to save your content and settings, back up iphone before erasing it. You can find, lock or erase youre lost or stolen mac with find my mac. Nov 14, 2018 click erase to begin wiping everything on your mac. Apr 08, 2019 choose your mac s system drive, usually named macintosh hd, then click erase. Oct 18, 2019 the best way to restore your mac to factory settings is to erase your hard drive and reinstall macos. Dec 17, 2019 find my mac is the best way to find and protect your lost or stolen mac. Now i need to enter a pin code to log in which i dont know.
Everything works fine on it but now its still showing as locked in the find my iphone app. Everything from my iphone is backed up onto my icloud account. Follow the onscreen instructions to complete the removal. Dec 12, 2019 if you set up find my mac before your mac was lost or stolen, you can use it to locate your mac on a map, or play a sound to help you find it. Locate the device youre interested in and select it. Here is my bestguess solution at having fmm disabled and preventing the person i purchased from being able to track or lock the system. If macbook has been wiped, will find my iphone still work. The 100gb of other storage i used to carry on my imac is whittled down to just 5gb. Regardless, the most important factors to remember about iclouds find my mac remote wipe are 1 it will erase all internal drives and 2 it will not erase locally attached external backup drives. Therefore, the steps to disable find my iphone are as follows.
No matter how advanced the data recovery tool is, it can never recover data deleted by umate pro. Once you locate your iphone or ios device, use one of find my iphones builtin functions to help recover the device. To wipe your mac, select your mac from the list of devices in find my iphone and click erase mac. Should a malicious party compromise your icloud account, they could remotely wipe your mac, as happened to wireds mat honan. Should a malicious party compromise your icloud account, they could remotely wipe your mac, as. Select the format option mac extended journaled or apfs. Click erase in the top area of the utility window if you dont see or cant select erase, click the volume name beneath the disk name.
And to cap it up, the app provides different options that fit according to the users preferences. How to find and remove files from other on your mac imore. Find my can locate airpods and play a sound if they are within bluetooth range of an ios device signed in to icloud. If find my device isnt enabled on your device before it goes missing, theres no other apple service that can find, track, or flag your device for you. If you are an iphone user, then find my mac is same as find my iphone. How to erase everything on mac imac, macbook proair. Find my mac is an icloudbased service that enables you to discover the location of a lost mac, lock it, or erase it remotely.
Nov 15, 2019 click erase in the top area of the utility window if you dont see or cant select erase, click the volume name beneath the disk name macintosh hd, then try again enter a name for the. If you have a mac or a pcugh in your life, make the backup via itunes. It also provides options to lock and remote wipe the systemthats all i know of it. To use find my, sign in to on another computer or open the find my app for iphone, ipad, or ipod touch. What to do if your iphone is lost or stolen macrumors. Jul 22, 2016 find my mac is an icloudbased service that enables you to discover the location of a lost mac, lock it, or erase it remotely. In short, youre seeing space taken up by plugins, documents, and caches stored by os x its worth noting that these files arent normally harmful or wasteful to your computers system. Jun 21, 2018 how to track a stolen macbook on your iphone. Steps on how to remotely erase your iphone, ipad, macbook or any apple device using i created this video with the youtube video editor.
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