How to find items or people through your Apple Watch

With watchOS 8 oregon higher installed connected an Apple Watch, you tin present much easy find different Apple devices, items specified arsenic AirTags, and adjacent different people. The Find People app lets you look for different household members oregon friends. The Find Devices app helps you way down your iPhone, iPad, MacBook and different Apple devices that whitethorn beryllium mislaid oregon missing. And the Find Items app helps you find luggage, backpacks and different items that incorporate Apple AirTags. Here's however each 3 apps work.

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First, marque definite you're moving watchOS 8 oregon higher. From your iPhone, unfastened the Watch app oregon conscionable unfastened the Settings app straight connected your watch. Go to General and past Software Update. You'll beryllium told that your Apple Watch is up to day oregon asked to download the latest update.

How to find radical with an Apple Watch

To find the determination of a circumstantial person, unfastened the Find People app connected your Apple Watch. By default, the database shows anyone who is simply a subordinate of your Apple Family. For those who person granted you support to spot their location, their introduction reveals their existent metropolis and state. Tap the introduction for specified a person. Swipe down to spot a representation and circumstantial code of their whereabouts. Tap the Contact icon to call, substance oregon email that person. Tap the Directions icon for walking, driving, transit oregon cycling directions to that person's whereabouts. Tap the Notify Me enactment to person a notification if that idiosyncratic leaves their determination oregon arrives astatine your determination (Figure A).

Figure A

If you can't spot a person's determination and you privation to presumption it, unfastened their introduction and pat the fastener for Ask for Location. That idiosyncratic receives a notification connected an iPhone and Apple Watch asking for support for you to travel their location. That idiosyncratic taps OK successful effect to the notification. You tin past spot their location, interaction them and get directions to find them (Figure B).

Figure B

Next, anyone tin stock their determination with different interaction extracurricular of household members. To bash this, the idiosyncratic would pat their ain introduction successful the Find People app. Make definite the power for Share My Location is enabled. Go backmost to the main surface and pat the introduction for Share My Location. Tap the microphone icon to dictate the sanction of the idiosyncratic with whom to stock a location. Tap the Contacts icon to prime a circumstantial interaction with whom to stock the determination via substance oregon email. Tap the dialpad icon to manually benignant a telephone fig oregon email code (Figure C).

Figure C

How to find devices connected an Apple Watch

To find the determination of different Apple device, specified arsenic an iPhone, iPad, MacBook oregon AirPods, you archetypal would request to guarantee that you've enabled the Find My enactment for that device. If the instrumentality past goes missing, unfastened the Find Devices app connected your Apple Watch. Tap the introduction for the instrumentality you privation to find. The determination appears via a representation and an address. Swipe down the screen. Tap the bid for Play Sound and the instrumentality emits a pinging noise. Tap the Directions bid to presumption turn-by-turn directions.

If the instrumentality can't beryllium located, pat the bid nether Notifications for Notify When Found. The bid for Notify When Left Behind sends you a notification if you go separated from this device. If you can't way down the device, pat the bid for Lost Mode to fastener it truthful that nary 1 other tin usage it. Lock Mode besides allows you to permission a connection and interaction accusation for whomever finds the instrumentality (Figure D).

Figure D

You tin besides find a instrumentality registered to different idiosyncratic successful your Apple Family. To bash this, support swiping down the surface for Find My Devices until you spot devices for each idiosyncratic successful your family. Tap a circumstantial instrumentality to spot its location, play a sound, presumption directions oregon activate Lost Mode (Figure E).

Figure E

How to find items connected an Apple Watch

Finally, you tin way down immoderate items that incorporate an Apple AirTag. If you've already acceptable up an AirTag, unfastened the Find Items app connected your Apple Watch. Tap the introduction for the AirTag you privation to locate. The surface shows the determination connected a representation and an address. Turn connected the commands for Notify When Found oregon Notify When Left Behind, if desired (Figure F).

Figure F

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