



But Find My has evolved to do much more than that. Locating friends, family members, and your Apple devices using the Find My app is very useful. Do more with Find My Discover how to add accessories, receive notifications, and more Click on one of the dots on the map to locate a device. Go to (opens in new tab) in a web browser, sign in and authenticate. You can access Find My from any computer by logging into your iCloud account. That means the device can be tracked in the Find My app, alongside Apple devices. Perhaps most useful of all, Apple has opened up the Find My network to third-party devices so that developers whose devices are approved by the Find My network accessory programme, part of Made For iPhone (MFi), can connect their devices to the network. And Find My is now baked deep into iOS and macOS, allowing you to, for example, see friends’ locations in the Messages app, or manage location sharing in Contacts. Skip forward a decade and the Find My app is now on Mac, iOS and iPad OS and allows you to track any of those devices, as well as friends and family members, and the newest addition, AirTags. Subscribe to the digital edition today from only $1.16 per issue!Ī year later, Find My iPhone was joined by Find My Friends, which allowed you to share your location with friends or family members, either temporarily or permanently. If you'd like to stay up-to-date on all the latest news, tips, guides and more for all things iPhone, MacBook, iPads and more, check out the latest subscription deals (opens in new tab). For example, I could personally find my parents’ and in-laws’ phone numbers on these websites with a few quick searches.This article originally appeared in Mac|Life (opens in new tab) magazine. So you can’t find the person’s phone number on Facebook, where do you turn? Well, there’s still an online version of those heavy paper phone books! But, like the physical books, it only covers landlines. While Facebook allows easy reverse phone lookups by default, it’s much harder to find someone’s phone number if you don’t already know it. If you don’t see this information here, there’s no way to find it on Facebook without actually sending the person a message and asking them for it. RELATED: How to Reverse Look Up a Phone Number Under Contact Information, you’ll see their phone number if they’ve chosen to share that information with their Facebook friends. Just sign into Facebook, head to the person’s profile page, and click About > Contact and Basic Info. If you’re friends with someone on Facebook, you may be able to find their phone number there. There’s no good perfect way to find someone’s phone number online.
