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  1. Chuckeee

    Best use of AirTags based on personal experience

    Based on your own personal experience, what have you found to be the best use of your AirTags? For me: 1st Locating a lost checked bag on an airline flight (Happened only once but ended up being really important) 2nd Finding my misplaced keys
  2. s1oplus

    iPhone 8/Plus Iphone lost and destroyed.

    In 2022 my beat up iphone was left in a delta A321. Locked the phone and all but it has no battery and no wifi. Meaning i cant track it. If someone boots it up will it be locked or no?
  3. JippaLippa

    Universal [Find My] is it possible to have an other person's iPhone find my location send to you when you open find my? (with consent of course)

    Hello. We're an iPhone household, at least me, my sister, her husband and my mother. I don't use location for nearly any app, but I have find my available and a mac at home to check its location, should I lose it. Today my mother almost lost her iPhone 14 and I started thinking of a solution...
  4. Alvin777

    How Do I Erase & Mount This Synthesized Drive?

    Hello, I have a Fusion Drive and run macOS Monterey. When I did a surface test on Windows BootCamp which was a mistake, I lost the SSD part of the Fusion Drive and I fresh installed macOS, I'm only running macOS on the Fusion Drive's 2TB hardisk. This was almost a year ago. I'm still trying to...
  5. D

    iPhone XR Lost iPhone location mixed with replacement device

    My sister in law had her iPhone XR stolen a few days ago. We put the phone in lost mode and reported it to the police straight away and after a day she got an older iPhone SE and restored her iCloud backUp to it. What is strange is that for the past 14 hours the iPhone has been reported as...
  6. defalt45

    iOS 7.x iPhone 4s passcode lost, need to recover photos

    Hello I have found my old iPhone 4s, which I had several years ago. I have plenty of photos, text messages... etc that I'd love to get back, unfortunately I can't remember its passcode. Does anyone know a way to get them ? I tried all the youtube tutorials and only ended up locking the iPhone...
  7. T

    The lost space, partition gone.

    Hey lads, I've been dual booting Linux for a while now, which I partitioned myself using diskutil commands. So the process for me to setup Linux took a while but everything worked out perfectly, util now. So I was interested in doing a fresh install of MacOS and dedicate the entire drive for...
  8. A

    Help! Lost my preview app

    Hi guys, I think I have accidentally deleted my Preview.app on my MacBook pro while I was cleaning it. I am freaking out cause I could not find it anywhere in my computer or online. Could somebody please send me Preview.app because I don’t have the installation disc(second-hand MacBook) Thank...
  9. A

    iPad Pro Locate Apple Pencil 2

    I have a cat whom is great, but she likes to play with pencils. Until the other day I had no problem with it, and actually was amused when I would step on a pencil that had been batted under a rug. You can guess where this is going. I left my Apple pencil on my desk and when I came back a short...
  10. T

    G-Tech loses hundreds (thousands) of RMA Drives?

    Anyone else run into this? I bought a G-Technology G-DRIVE with Thunderbolt 3 / USB-C 6TB drive 3 months ago. One day it had dismounted and shut down. No signs of life. I called G-Tech and they gave me an RMA and told me that I'd get a replacement 3-5 days after they received my faulty...
  11. F

    iMac late 2013, Fusion Drive lost partition after BootCamp fail

    Hey everyone, so, I had to use my iMac for a project and I had to install Windows on it to run some software. Fired up bootcamp, downloaded all I had to, but once it restarted everything got stuck (I let it run for about 4 hours). So I had to reboot it, and that's what probably caused the...
  12. musicist.saurav

    How to recover unsaved lost photos! Need Help.

    Hi all, I am using iPhone 6 plus. My iPhone's touchscreen was not working properly. So, service centre replaced it with a new set. Recently I took some photos on that set. To transfer them to my computer I connected it using the USB cable. iTune opened. It asked me whether I want to use my...
  13. M

    iPod touch I lost my ipod 4th, can people access my photos, notes, etc?

    Recently I lost my good old ipod 4th touch screen I bought back in 2010. I'm concerned mostly because I had some bank information saved in my notes, some pictures of myself. My ipod had a passcode. So last time I checked my ipod looked like this As you can see, next to the slide to unlock...
  14. J

    Help - Lost my iPhone 6 in the Philippines

    I recently moved to Philippines, and stupidly, I left my iPhone 6 in the back of a taxi. Does anyone know if an iPhone 6 armed with Touch ID and a pin, is still susceptible to being unlocked. I have valuable information on it. Or does anyone know how likely someone is able to hack into it...
  15. lukasmmm

    How could it be possible with my stolen iPhone?

    Hi, I had a bad day and it happened so that my iPhone 5S with ios 9.3.1 slipped out of my pocket somewhere in the city. When I found out that I'm missing my device (max 10 minutes since last seen in my palm) it was already turned off which means no use of "Find my iPhone" app. My device had...
  16. R

    Find my daughters lost iPhone.....

    I got a facetime call from my 16 year old daughters ipad yesterday. She was having a panic attack. She said that she had lost her phone, someone had stolen it from the Tescos she had visited. Rather than immediately calling the poiice and insurance company, I tried logging into her icloud...
  17. electronicsguy

    Remotely turn ON location services for your own device

    Hello, I just learnt this trick and thought of sharing with others. If you turn off location services on your phone, you cannot track it right (duh!). However, you can still goto www.icloud.com, into find my iphone and then in the list of devices tied to your account, put that phone in...
  18. yukunerk

    Lost/Stolen Ipad

    I had a lapse in memory at the local grocery store and left my iPad at the cashiers station when I walked out. Realized about an hour or 2 later and when back. It was gone. This happened thursday at around 5:30-6pm. I went back and looked around, couldn't find it, asked the store manager and...
  19. cjh123

    Data recovery Help!!!

    Hi guys!! So I dragged a file unknowingly into my trash as it was under a ton of pictures on my desktop. Cleared my trash. Realized that file was gone. I have two essays due this week that were in there, one of them due in 6 hours (its 2:30am my time). I have tried using Disk Drill Pro and M3...
  20. M

    iPhone 6 Help needed

    Hello All, I want to keep things short and sweet here and here is my issue : I have an iPhone that is lost/found and at the moment the owner is untraceable, so i'm left with a device that is locked (it asks for a pin when i turn on) so i'm not sure on what can be done, can i jailbreak it but...