By Rachel Needell
Find My—previously known as separate apps Find My iPhone and Find My Friends—is a staple Apple native app that allows you to find your friends and personal Apple devices by accessing GPS locations. You may have noticed the small "Live" tag underneath friends who are sharing their location with you. We'll cover everything you need to know about what it means when someone's location is live.
By Rhett Intriago
Having the Weather app on your Apple Watch allows you to easily check temperatures and get weather alerts without taking out your iPhone. If you experience your Apple Watch not loading weather forcasts properly, we'll cover possible solutions to help you resolve your Apple Watch weather not updating.
By Leanne Hays
If you haven't used Focus modes on your iPhone yet, it's a great way to prevent distractions from calls, texts, and apps. It's incredibly versatile and useful with features like location-based activation. Learn how to turn on a Focus for specific locations, so your device doesn't start buzzing and beeping just when you need it to be quiet.
By Leanne Hays
Do you wish you could get an iPad or iPhone calendar alert when it's time to leave for an event or appointment? Now you can! Here's how to turn on Time to Leave alerts in the Calendar app on your iPhone or iPad.
By Leanne Hays
By Erin MacPherson
Can you share location on Apple Watch without your iPhone? Yes! Your watch knows your location whether you have GPS and Cellular, or just GPS services, and with the Find People app that comes installed on your watch, you can send your location directly from your wrist. Below, we'll show you how to share location from Apple Watch instead of iPhone.
By Conner Carey
"Oh, great, where is my iPhone?" If you have a lost iPhone or iPad, the Find My app (formerly the Find My iPhone app) will help you locate your device whether you lost it at a friend’s house or at the bar (I did this once. Luckily, I was able to find my iPad when I returned.) But what if you need to use Find My iPhone in your house and can’t seem to find your device anywhere?
By Olena Kagui
Losing an iPhone or having it stolen can be an incredibly stressful experience. Not only is an iPhone expensive, but it also contains a lot of sensitive data. Plus, it is likely linked to your other Apple devices, which could put those devices at risk. We’ll teach you the steps to take once a phone is stolen and cannot be retrieved using the Find My app.
By Sarah Kingsbury
It used to be that you had to either always allow or never allow location tracking for apps, which interfered with things like tagging photos by location and also caused privacy concerns. Now there's a third option. We'll show you how to allow location tracking while using an app instead of either always or never allowing tracking.
By Amy Spitzfaden Both
Can you share your location from iPhone to Android? Apple doesn't allow it with any of its native apps, but other apps, such as WhatsApp and Google Maps, let you share your location with other users. If you want to keep an Android user up to date with your movements, here are the best apps to let you share your location from iPhone to Android.
By Conner Carey
You can find your lost AirPods the same way you find a lost iPhone: the Find My app. Whether you lose one on your morning run and need to figure out where you dropped it, or you simply can’t locate your AirPods in your messy house, here’s how to find your AirPods using your iPhone.
By Rhett Intriago
Apple’s Stolen Device Protection is a great new feature that protects your iPhone from potential thieves by preventing changes to the passcode when you’re away from home. However, some users have found that Stolen Device Protection incorrectly reports that they are away from home when they’re not. Let’s get to the bottom of why this seems to be happening.
By Rhett Intriago
Sharing your location is a handy way to let friends, family, or significant others know where you are at any given moment. The iPhone's Find My app makes this super easy. But what if you decide you don’t want your contacts to know where you are? Read on to find out how to stop sharing your location.
By Rhett Intriago
So you’re about to embark on a long road trip but Apple Maps is not working? We’ll help you get back on the road in no time at all. Below, you’ll find our best suggestions for fixing Apple Maps not working.
By Ashleigh Page
iPhone location based alerts not working? Maybe you've found that your Focus Mode is erroneously activating when you're near the set location, or is not activating even though you're at the location. In either case, we'll show you how to adjust the geofence boundaries for location alerts on your iPhone so that your location based Focus Modes will function smoothly.
By Conner Carey
Apple allows customers to turn Location Services on or off and customize Location Sharing on iPhone and iPad. You can allow more or less location information to be share with all apps, or choose your location settings app-by-app. We'll also go over how to share your location with members of your Family Sharing group, and turn off location sharing.
By Conner Carey
Many Apple Weather app users experience their iPhone Weather widget and app showing the wrong location. Here's how to customize your iPhone Weather app settings and change or set the default weather location on an iPhone or iPad.
By August Garry
Apple’s new AirTags can help you find those items you’re always misplacing: keys, purses, umbrellas, wallets, and more. The Apple tracking device uses the Find My network to show you the location of the item it's attached to. But before you can retrieve your lost item, you’ll need to learn how to set up and use your AirTag. Here’s how:
By Erin MacPherson
Your Apple Watch is your personal assistant, your personal trainer, and your most accessible gadget. One of the best ways to meet your daily exercise goals and stay motivated is to track your steps, which contributes to your overall count for calories expended. It's important, however, to ensure that your Apple Watch pedometer is working correctly, or you may be seeing inaccurate step tracking results. In this article we look at how to make sure your Apple Watch is able to accurately count your steps, and how to how to calibrate your Apple Watch step counter if it's inaccurate results.
By Conner Carey
You probably know how to do an image search on your iPhone, but did you know you could use Siri to search your photos by date and location? With this tip for doing a photo search on your iPhone, you can easily find pictures from special occasions and vacations, so long as you remember when and/or where they were taken.
