This tutorial will guide you though the steps to set up and use the Find My iPad feature that’s included with your MobileMe
In addition to an email address, iDisk storage space, a web calendar and address book that’s easy to sync with iCal and Address Book, MobileMe includes a feature to recover your iPad. Here’s how you go about setting it up.
- Start out by tapping the Settings icon on your iPad’s dashboard. Select Mail, Contacts, Calendars and then select your MobileMe
- Toggle the Find My iPad switch to ON
- Tap the Allow button when asked for confirmation.
- Now tap the Done button in the upper-right corner.
- In your web browser, navigate to your me.com settings page (which is usually https://secure.me.com/account/). Select Find my iPhone from the left column. Note: don’t worry that it’s called “Find my iPhone” and not “Find my iPad”.
- If your iPad is online now – it’ll show up on a map displayed on the Find my iPhone page. If your laptop is lost or stolen, this is how you can determine (roughly) where it is.
- If you want to send a message to your iPad – so that whomever found (or stole) it reads it (they have to – it’s displayed no matter which app is or isn’t running on the iPad) – click the Display a Message… button.
- Enter the message you want to appear on your iPad in the space provided. You can also check the Play a sound for 2 minutes with this message box if you’d like your iPad to make a lot of noise at the same time – which can be very helpful if it’s in a lost and found box and you want someone to read the message you’re sending. Click the Send button to send the message.
- A confirmation message will appear confirming that the message has been sent, and that you’ll be notified by email once it has been displayed on the iPad.
- Whomever has your iPad will now get the message that you sent. The screenshot below is an example of what they’ll see.
- Another security measure you can take is to remotely lock your iPad. Click the Remote Lock… button to set a 4 digit passcode on your iPad.
- Enter the passcode (twice).
- And now your iPad will require whomever has it to enter the 4 digit passcode that you set in order to use it.
- One last step you can take is to completely wipe the iPad – remotely. Click the Remote Wipe… button and follow the steps provided. NOTE: as explained – this will completely wipe the contents of your iPad. This should be used as a last resort and only when you’re certain that it has been stolen. With that said, don’t hesitate too long to use this option – especially if your iPad contains sensitive information (access to your email, passwords, banking information etc).
- Now you know how to use the Find My iPad feature that comes included with your MobileMe subscription.
Hi my husband had his IPad stolen out of his 18 wheeler:( unfortunately he does not have his serial number or the Tracker on.Does anyone know how we can still track it?Please help me!
Hi Bea, if you did not install the “Find” feature, there is nothing you can do. Although you have your serial # recorded in your Apple account, it won’t help, other than to file a police report. Apple will let someone else register your iPad to their account, no questions asked.
i purchased a toshiba thrive and it has not been delivered. Can it be tracked if it was stolen.
I lost my i-pad, Can I find my I-pad by serial number? I haven’t made above step to cover my i-pad. Is there way to search for it? Thank in advance.
My iPad was stolen. I had the find my iPad app set up. It seems the thief turned the iPad off or the find my iPad feature off because all I get is the information for where it was last located and the time (which was in my house where the stole it from). Will I ever be able to track the iPad. I sent the email to the iPad and the play a loud sound.
Is it possible they got in before I put the 4 digit code in and turned off the find my iPad feature?
Donna, if it was wi-fi only then it won’t have Internet for the Find features to work.
Even if they do work, it is easy for anyone to wipe it and start using it as if brand new. Happened to me.