Find My
Use Find My to locate your friends, family, and Apple devices—all in the same app.
![You can locate your friends or your devices by clicking the People or Devices tabs. A map of San Francisco with the locations of three friends: Virgil Scott, Stella Lee, and Nisha Kumar.](https://help.apple.com/assets/5C82DE24094622A5397E79C6/5D016BB6680CE25E3982B453/en_US/fe25717bfd618e1930a20f047dbf0c69.png)
Share locations with friends. In the People list, click Share My Location to tell friends and family where you are. You can share your location for an hour, a day, or indefinitely, and stop sharing whenever you like. You can also ask to follow a friend so you can see where they are on a map and get step-by-step directions to their location.
Set location alerts. Automatically send notifications to friends when you arrive at or leave a specific location. Set notifications when your friends leave and arrive, too. If your friends create notifications about your location, you can view them all in one place—click Me in the People list, then scroll to Notifications About You.
Secure a lost device. Use Find My to locate and protect a missing Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple Watch, or AirPods. Click a device in the Devices list to locate it on the map. Click to play a sound on the device to help you find it, mark the device as lost so others can’t access your personal information, and even erase the device remotely.
![A close up of the Info icon for John’s MacBook Pro.](https://help.apple.com/assets/5C82DE24094622A5397E79C6/5D016BB6680CE25E3982B453/en_US/18c2db6c31732630e3d5e919ba0f8eab.png)
Locate devices, even if they’re offline. Find My uses Bluetooth signals from other nearby Apple devices to locate your device when it’s not connected to a Wi-Fi or cellular network. These signals are anonymous and encrypted, and help find the location of your missing device without compromising privacy.
Find a family member’s device. You can use Find My to help locate a family member’s device, if you’re in a Family Sharing group and your family member is sharing their location with you.
Learn more. See the Find My User Guide.