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Unable to add devices to "find my iPhone" app

After an update to IOS 13 the "find my iPhone" app only shows my iPhone. There is no option to add a device (that I can find). Before updating to the new IOS I had my aging parents iPhones listed on the app so that I could locate them if something should happen, but now they are missing. I confirmed that they have their "find my iPhone 'on'", they have IOS 13.1.3 and they are signed into their Apple ID.

iPhone XS, iOS 13

Posted on Nov 26, 2019 5:35 AM

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Posted on Nov 26, 2019 5:42 AM

On their devices, are they sharing their location?


Find My - Official Apple Support —> Find friends and share your location with Find My - Apple Support


They need to share their location with you from their devices.

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Dec 9, 2019 5:37 AM in response to Michael Black

Sorry for the delay Michael, my parents live in Tennessee so I don't have easy access to their phones and they are not very tech-savvy! Yes, sharing is on, but it still doesn't show up for some reason. I'm more concerned about the "find my iPhone" feature which I am not able to pull up anymore. It appears that I can only find my own iPhone from my own iPhone and that's it... doesn't make sense to me because if I lost my iPhone, I would use, say my wife's iPhone to find it or erase the memory.


I don't have the option on my iPhone (in the find my iPhone app) to even enter their apple ID like I used to... it only shows MY Apple ID and I can't change it. In the past, my mom misplaced her phone and we were able to easily find it using my iPhone because I just entered her Apple ID in the "find my iPhone" app and sign in and find it. Now, after the recent IOS update, I can't find a way to access it anymore.


Thank you.

Unable to add devices to "find my iPhone" app

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