My son has lost his tonight.
There isn’t a ‘find my phone app’ loaded, and we don’t have any Apple devices just my HTC and our PC.

The phone is on and ringing

there’s a thing called “plan b” by lookout for android – might do one for iphones ?

So you haven’t got the find my phone app. Do you have the find friends app installed?

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Do you need the find my phone app installed? or does that just allow you to find someone else’s phone?
From memory i think you just need to have ticked the “find my phone” button in the icloud settings, have you done this? If not sure try logging onto his icloud account from your pc and clicking the ‘find my phone’ icon from there.

I’ve no idea what that is?

Muppetwrangler is right

Go to http://www.icloud.com
Log in using your son’s iTunes login
There will be a “find my phone” option
As long as the phone had that feature enabled the magic of GPS will show you where the phone is (as long as it is on!)

use a web browser. type icloud.com as the address.

You should get a login screen.

Use your sons login details for his apple account, same details he uses to buy apps, music etc.

Once logged in you should see a number of icons. If ‘find my phone’ has been authorised on the phone then you will see a icon called ‘find my phone’ If you don’t see that it’s not authorised on the phone and someone smarter than me will have to suggest something else.

http://www.icloud.com
Log in with his apple / iTunes ID
Click find my phone
Disable it remotely etc

Cheers, trying now.

Any luck?

No joy.
He doesn’t have an i-tunes account.

The phone is still ringing.

Looks like he’ll have to do it the old way. He had it at college, went to training, then went training with his second club, then walked home.
He was up at first light.
Feel annoyed and sorry for him at the same time.

Really hope he finds it. Good luck.

He doesn’t need an “iTunes” account, just an apple id. You set this up when you first switch the phone on. It’s usually just your email address.

Big thanks.
Found in the grass in the grass in the park with the apple app.
Cheers

relief all round I expect!

Looks like he’ll have to do it the old way. He had it at college, went to training, then went training with his second club, then walked home.

WHere does the “grass in the park” come in ? – naughty young git ! 😉

Found in the grass in the grass in the park with the apple app.

That’s brilliant news. Say what you like about Apple but they are clever b*****s at times.

Say what you like about Apple but they are clever b*****s at times.

It’s a brilliant bit of technology isn’t it.

A mate lost his iPhone and found it again the same way.

The annoying bit was that he was then in Bristol, and the phone was in a Chalet in Meribel under a bed 😀

He got it back in the end though.

That’s brilliant news. Say what you like about Apple but they are clever b*****s at times.

You can also push apps to android from your account to add a find me app if you forgot one too. All quite clever really.

The joy of geolocation! 😀

Nice work – now remember how to do that and you’ll be able to track him to find out where he is really going when he “Goes round to a mate’s to study” 😀