If you frequently lose your phone at your home or keep it in your purse or bag and forget about it, you don’t need to take out your laptop and go to iCloud.com. You can simply use the Apple Watch to find your phone. It won’t trigger several emails from iCloud stating your device is sent a noise. It is a much easier and simpler process.
However, to find your iPhone with your Apple Watch, it must be switched on and Bluetooth enabled. Also, you can only find the iPhone that is linked to your Watch.
Find your iPhone with your Apple Watch
As we mentioned before, it is a much simple process. Follow these few steps:
- Push the Digital Crown to reach the face of the Watch
- Swipe up and it’ll show if your iPhone is connected to your Watch or not.
- If it is, tap on Find iPhone in the left-hand bottom corner.
After doing this, your iPhone would ring within a few moments with a short submarine-style sound. You can click on this button repeatedly until your find your phone.
Pro tip: Oftentimes the sound is not enough to find your iPhone with Your Apple Watch. In this case, your push and hold the Find iPhone and your phone’s LED light will flash and it will make a chiming sound as well.
A voilá, you’ve found your phone.
Receive a Notification When You’ve Left a Device Behind
Sometimes you may leave your iPhone behind on the pub’s counter you’ve been to or your office by mistake. In these scenarios, you can receive a notification when you leave your iPhone behind. Also, you can set a few Trusted Locations where leaving your phone will not trigger a notification. Follow these steps to receive a notification:
- Go to the Find Devices app on your Apple Watch
- Choose the Device you want a notification for
- Under Notifications, click on Notify When Left Behind and turn it on
You can also add a Trusted Location by choosing a suggested location, or choose a New Location on the map manually and then click Done. After this, you can find your iPhone with your Apple Watch when you leave it behind.
Mark a Device as Lost
Sometimes your device might get stolen or you can lose it for good. In these cases, you can turn on the Lost Mode on your Apple Watch to lock your devices. To do this, follow these steps:
- On your Apple Watch, go to the Find Devices app
- Choose a device you want to lock
- Click Lost Mode and turn it on.
The following things happen when you turn on the Lost Mode:
- Your Apple ID email address will receive an email.
- The phone’s screen will show the message that the device is lost and the process to contact you.
- Apple Pay will be disabled. All the debit or credit cards, student ID cards, or Express Transit Card information will be removed from your phone.
- You’ll see your device’s current location on the map.
Receive a notification when you’ve left a device behind
- Open the Find Devices app on your Apple Watch.
- Tap the device you want to set up a notification for.
- Below Notifications, tap Notify When Left Behind, then turn on Notify When Left Behind.
Final Thoughts
We hope that we’ve helped you find your iPhone with your Apple Watch with this article. It is a simple process, but if you lose your phone for good or it is stolen you can easily mark your device as lost and it will lock up your phone saving all your important information.
To add your iPhone to your Apple Watch, sign in to your phone using your Apple ID. Then you have to turn on location sharing and lastly, you have to turn on Find my device. You can do it for your iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, or Mac.
This can happen when your iPhone and Apple Watch aren’t paired. You can fix this by making sure both the devices have Bluetooth and Wi-Fi enabled and are in the range of each other. Next, try to restart your iPhone and Apple Watch, and reset your iPhone’s network settings.
Sometimes you may leave your iPhone behind on the pub’s counter you’ve been to or your office by mistake. In these scenarios, you can receive a notification when you leave your iPhone behind. Follow these steps to receive a notification:
1. Go to the Find Devices app on your Apple Watch
2. Choose the Device you want a notification for
3. Under Notifications, click on Notify When Left Behind and turn it on
1. Go to the Find Devices app on your Apple Watch
2. Choose the Device you want a notification for
3. Under Notifications, click on Notify When Left Behind and turn it on
If you lose your iPhone, you can mark it as lost. Here’s how you do this:
1. On your Apple Watch, go to the Find Devices app
2. Choose a device you want to lock
3. Click Lost Mode and turn it on.
