FIND YOUR STOLEN MACBOOK USING FIND MY MAC

What would you do if your Macbook Pro gets stolen? You don’t have to worry. You can get back your MacBook Pro with the app Find My Mac. Yes, if you have Find My Mac enabled on your MacBook Pro you can easily trace it, lock it, and erase all its data.

What Is Find My Mac?

Let us see what is exactly this app and what does it do. Find My Mac is one of the more useful features of iCloud which allows you to find any Apple device that has gone missing, by simply logging into iCloud. Using Find My Mac, we can track a lost Mac, enables it to play a sound, lock a stolen Mac and erase the hard disk of it Mac.Find My Mac actually helps you in tracing a lost Mac from another device using the Find My iPhone web app on icloud.com or the Find My iPhone app on an iOS device. But for that you need to enable it first.

Here’s how to trace a lost or stolen MacBook.

How To Enable Find My Mac?

The first thing you need to do when you have a new MacBook is you need to set up Find My Mac and this must be done before your Mac is lost or stolen, otherwise, it’s useless. You’ll first need to make sure you Location Services are enabled:

• Go to the Apple menu button on the top left of your screen.
• Click System Preferences.
• Next click Security & Privacy.
• Choose the lock icon in the bottom left corner and type in the administrator’s password to make changes.
• Make sure the checkbox next to Enable Location Services is checked.

Now Enable Find My Mac:

• As usual go to the Apple menu button on the top left of your screen.
• Go for System Preferences.
• Select iCloud.
• Mark the checkbox next to Find My Mac to enable it, and click Next.
• Enable Allow.

Now when you sign into iCloud.com on another computer, you’ll be able to find and erase your lost or stolen Mac. You just have to sign in with the Apple ID that’s in use on your missing Mac.

How To Locate your Mac Using Find My Mac On The Web:

You can use any computer to track your lost or stolen Mac by signing into iCloud on the web.

• Firstly, visit https://www.icloud.com/
• Sign in to your iCloud Account using the Apple ID and Password associated with your Lost or Stolen Mac.
• Once you are logged-in, click on Find iPhone option.
• Enter your Apple ID Password, to sign-in to Find iPhone Service.
• Click All Devices at the top of the page.
• Choose the name of your Mac in the list of devices.

Your Mac will now show up on the map as a green dot, showing its exact location. If you are sure that it’s in your house, you can click Play Sound, and it’ll ring out.  The sound will alert you to found it.But if your Mac has been stolen and the chances of getting it back are very unlikely, then you should consider the following methods.

How to Lock Your Lost or Stolen Mac?

You can follow the steps below to Lock the data on your Mac using Find My Mac.

• Visit the link https://www.icloud.com/
• Use your iCloud Account and enter the Apple ID and Password associated with your Lost or Stolen Mac.
• Once you are logged-in, click on Find iPhone option.
• Enter your Apple ID Password, to sign-in to Find iPhone Service.
• Choose the All Devices option and then click on your Mac.
• In the next screen, click on the Lock option.
• Now, you will see a pop-up. Click on Lock to confirm that you do want to Lock your Device.

Once you Lock your Mac, you won’t be able to Erase the data on your Mac.

How to Erase Your Lost or Stolen Mac?

• Go to the link https://www.icloud.com/ and sign-in to your iCloud Account using the Apple ID and Password associated with your Lost or Stolen Mac.
• As you are logged-in, click on Find iPhone option.
• With your Apple ID Password, to sign-in to Find iPhone Service.
• Click on the All Devices option and then click on your Mac.
• Select Erase Mac option.
• When you will see a pop-up, click on Erase Mac to confirm that you do want to Erase the contents in your Mac.

This will Erase all the data and Settings on your Mac.