How to add a new phone to find my iphone

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Set up Find My iPhone

To allow Google Assistant to find your phone, you need to turn on notifications from the Google Home app and set up Voice Match. Then, when you need to find your phone, you can say “Find my iPhone” or “Where’s my iPhone?” to your speaker or display. To let Google Assistant find your phone even when it’s set to silent or Do not disturb, turn on Critical alerts. 

Note: If you don’t turn on notifications, Google Assistant can still call the number linked to your Google Account, but it shouldn't send a notification.

This feature is only available in the US and Canada for iOS.

What you need

• An iPhone connected to mobile data or Wi-Fi
• The Google Home app
  
• A speaker or display set up in the Google Home app

Turn on notifications and Critical alerts

1. Open the Google Home app
   
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2. Tap Settings
   
    
   
    Notifications.
3. If you have the option, tap Turn on Notifications
   
    Go to settings. This takes you to the Google Home screen in your iPhone’s Settings app. 
   • If you don’t have the option to turn on notifications, this may mean notifications are already turned on. 
4. Tap Notifications
   
    turn on Allow Notifications.
5. Go back to the Google Home app for the setting to take effect.
6. To turn on Critical alerts, from the home screen, tap Settings
   
   
    Notifications
   
    General notifications
   
    turn on Critical alerts.

Set up Voice Match

1. Open the Google Home app
   
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2. At the top right, tap your account.
3. Verify that the Google Account shown is the one linked to your speaker or display. To switch accounts, tap the triangle next to the Google Account, then tap another account or Add another account.
4. Tap Assistant settings 
   
    Voice match 
   
    Add a device.
5. Make sure that you check any devices you want to to use to Find My Phone for.
6. Tap Continue 
   
   I agree.
7. Follow the in-app steps.
8. To get your personal information, you must turn on Personal results. Tap I agree and proceed with the Voice Match setup.
9. To invite others to set up Voice match for tailored results, tap Invite 
   
   choose your communication method, and send the invite. To skip this step, tap No thanks.

Find your phone

Say "Hey Google, find my phone" or “find my iPhone” and Google Assistant should send a notification to your iPhone that makes it ring for about 25 seconds. To stop the ringing and dismiss the notification, tap the notification.

For those unfamiliar with the app, ‌Find My‌ replaces the ‌Find My‌ Friends and the ‌Find My‌ ‌iPhone‌ apps of old and brings their features together in a unified interface that allows you to find whatever it is you need.

By signing into ‌Find My‌ as a guest on a friend's device, you can use it to locate your lost device using the same functions that would be available to you if it was your own ‌iPhone‌ or ‌iPad‌. Here's how it works.

1. Launch the Find My app on your friend's iOS device.
2. Tap the Me tab, if it isn't already selected.
   
   
   
   
   
3. With your finger on the pill-shaped drag handle, bring the Me tab up over the map to reveal the additional options.
4. Tap Help a Friend at the bottom.
5. Once the iCloud.com page has loaded, sign into your iCloud account using your ‌Apple ID‌ and password.

After logging in, you'll be presented with a map and a list of all the devices that are signed into your ‌iCloud‌ account. You can also tap the arrow icon in the top-right corner of the screen to center the map on the currently selected device.

The options available to you will depend on the type of device you're trying to locate, but you should always have the option to play a sound to locate a nearby device as long as it's powered on and within range.

If it's a Mac, iOS device or Apple Watch you're trying to locate, you can put it into Lost Mode (this ensures your passcode is required on the device before anyone can turn off ‌Find My‌ ‌iPhone‌ or erase it) or remotely erase it.

If the selected device is out of range of network coverage or powered off, you can tap Notify When Found, and Apple will email you when the device is located. Any other options you choose in the device actions menu (Erase iPad, for example) will be performed the next time the device comes back online.

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