The Find My iPhone service calls up a Google Map and plots the locations of each of your registered iOS and Mac OS X devices, allowing you to switch between the map, satellite and hybrid views and zoom in to accurately pinpoint each one. As it's possible to set iCloud to enable logins without a password, you'll have to supply your password again to keep your devices safe. If this isn't Find My Mac, click the application icon in the upper left-hand corner and pick 'Find My iPhone' from the menu. iCloud will open to display whichever module you used most recently. Point your browser at and log in using your Apple ID. Quit system preferences and switch to Safari. Click the check box beside 'Find My Mac' and confirm that you want to authorise it to lock or wipe your Mac remotely. Activate it through 'system preferences' and then 'iCloud'. Activate Find My MacĪs it could potentially give away your location to anyone who has your Apple ID credentials, and would also enable Apple to track your movements, Find My Mac is disabled by default.

Watch our video tutorial above, or read on to find out how to use Find My Mac.

While none of Apple's current laptops feature 3G, it's a relatively trivial matter to plot a user's position from their IP address, so, as long as whoever has your Mac is online, finding them should be easy. With MobileMe being retired in favour of iCloud, Apple has now rolled out a similar retrieval service for the Mac, Find My Mac. Sadly, it doesn't go so far as allowing you to disable it entirely, to prevent it being sold on. Should your iPhone be stolen, you can then send a message to its screen, or lock or wipe the handset and prevent anyone from getting hold of your sensitive data. So long as you have push email enabled on a MobileMe address, this service pings the handset, retrieving its location from the internal GPS chip and plotting it on a Google Map. Apple's Find My iPhone service has long been a feature of MobileMe.

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