fixed : set iPhone to be found even when off

Question :
People told us that we can no longer use Find My iPhone to retrace our iPhones when the iPhone is turned off…

Is that true ? and is there no way to prevent that ?

Answer :
Yes, it’s true.
By default, the Find My iPhone (Find My Device) option is always on on your iPhone. You just need an Apple/iCloud account active on your iPhone to be able to use it.
But it’s true that if you loose your iPhone and it (accidentally) gets turned off, or it gets willingly turned off by someone who found or stole it, you will no longer be able to trace it.

Here’s the simple extras that you can set to prevent this from happening :
– on your iPhone, open the Settings.app
– in the Settings page, scroll down and click on “Face ID & Passcode”
– when the “Enter Passcode” page opens, enter your iPhone unlock code
– on the Face ID & Passcode page, scroll down and make sure that “Stolen Device Protection” is ON
– then scroll down further, and in the ALLOW ACCESS WHEN LOCKED chapter, set the slider at “Control Center” to OFF
– then, click on “< Settings” (top left) to return to the main Settings page
– there, at the top, click on your own name
– on the Apple Account page that opens, click on “Find My”
– on the Find My page that opens, click on “Find My iPhone”
– on the Find My iPhone page that opens, make sure that all sliders (“Find My iPhone”. “Find My Network” amd “Send Last Location”) are all switched ON
– then click on “< Find My” top left to return to the Find My page
– then swipe up from the bottom of the screen to close the Settings.app

That’s it !

enjoy 😉

tip : Find My iPhone on iCloud and the officially unsupported iPhone 3G

Question :

MobileMe supports Find My iPhone on the iPhone 3G, but since iCloud is not supported on the iPhone 3G, what will happen to Find My iPhone on my iPhone 3G after switching to iCloud ?

Answer :

You cannot setup Find My iPhone on an iPhone 3G after you’ve switched from MobileMe to iCloud, but if you already had it working with MobileMe, it will keep on working after switching to iCloud (normally speaking)

Apple has posted the official info on this here :

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4876?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

It all boils down to this :

iOS-devices running iOS 4.1 or earlier are not visible in Find My iPhone on iCloud

iOS-devices running iOS 4 versions 4.2 and up should be visible in Find My iPhone on iCloud, but they’re not supported (and not recommended) by Apple

(note : iOS-devices running iOS 5 can run iCould natively, so they are fully supported)