Apple mobile phone location tracking

★ Posted on 03-16,2025

We all know that Apple mobile phones come with GPS positioning services. Together with map data, we can quickly locate our current location. So How does the iPhone track the location? The following is a detailed introduction:

Apple phone location tracking

How to track location on iPhone?

The first step is to open iCloud Positioning function in

1. First, please open the "Settings" application on the home screen of your iPhone, as shown in the picture.

iPhone location tracking

 2. Find the iCloud column in the settings list and click to enter, as shown in the figure.

iPhone location tracking

 3. You then need to use your own Apple ID to log in to the iCloud serviceIf you don’t have your own Apple ID account yet, you can go to Apple’s official website to register for free.

iPhone location tracking

 4. After logging in to the iCloud service with your Apple ID, please make sure that "Find My iPhone" in the function list is turned on.

iPhone location tracking

Second display to locate the Apple phone on the computer

After setting up the Apple iPhone, you can start trying to locate it. Open Apple's iCloud official website page in your computer browser: https://www.icloud.com and log in with your Apple ID account.

iPhone location tracking

Note: If the iCloud page cannot be opened, please use these browsersTo open:

Internet Explorer 9 or higher, Firefox 22 or higher, or Google Chrome 28 or higher. After successfully logging into the iCloud web version, please click the "Find My iPhone" icon on the page, as shown in the picture.

iPhone location tracking

If prompted to enter your Apple ID password, please enter it.

Then wait for system positioning, and you can see the location of the device on the map on the page. The green dot shown on the map is the location of your device.

iPhone location tracking

In this way, you can know exactly where your phone is currently. Of course, you can also play ringtones, turn on lost mode, or erase data on the iPhone.

How to track the location of an Apple phone? The above are the detailed introduction steps. Things to note: This location function needs to meet several conditions: 1. When the "Find My iPhone" function is turned on on the Apple iPhone , whether it is a mobile wireless network or a WiFi network; 2. The mobile phone must have power and be turned on.

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