How To Locate Your Macbook Using Find My Mac Feature

Harin - Sep 13, 2019


How To Locate Your Macbook Using Find My Mac Feature

By syncing your Mac with your iCloud account and with Find My Mac enabled, you can easily locate your Mac with just a few steps.

If someone stole your iPhone or it has been lost, your first move would be using Find My iPhone feature of Apple.

But do you know that you can do the same with other Apple devices which include your Mac?

By syncing your Mac with your iCloud account and with Find My Mac enabled, you can easily locate your Mac with just a few steps.

1. Open your Mac’s System Preferences.

2. Click on iCloud.

Mac-iCloud
Click to open the iCloud menu.

3. Keep on scrolling the menu’s list until you see the Find My Mac feature.

Find-my-Mac
Scroll to find Find My Mac.

4. If the box on the left hasn’t been checked yet, click the box.

5. A pop-up will then ask you to give permission to Find My Mac to access the location of your computer. Click Allow.

Find-my-Mac-pop-up
Click "Allow."

6. Next to Find My Mac, a checkmark will appear.

How to find your Mac using iCloud

1. Visit http://www.icloud.com/

2. Next, sign in to iCloud using your Apple ID or your email address and password that are associated with your Mac. During the process, you may see a pop-up on your home screen which notifies the new sign-in and verification code. Type in the verification code and click the arrow.

sign-in-to-iCloud
Use your Apple ID and password to sign in.

3. Click Find iPhone after you are signed in.

Find-iPhone
Click Find iPhone.

4. Click My Devices.

5. In the dropdown menu, select the name of your Mac.

drop-down-menu
Find your device in the drop-down menu.

6. After you have selected your Mac, you can either choose to play a sound to help you locate your Mac, lock it so no one can access it or erase it from your iCloud.

Find-Mac
You can play a sound to locate the location of your Mac.

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