Mac User Guide
- Welcome
- What’s new in macOS Tahoe
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- Intro to Apple Intelligence
- Translate messages and calls
- Create original images with Image Playground
- Create your own emoji with Genmoji
- Use Apple Intelligence with Siri
- Find the right words with Writing Tools
- Summarize notifications and reduce interruptions
- Use ChatGPT with Apple Intelligence
- Apple Intelligence and privacy
- Block access to Apple Intelligence features
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- Intro to Continuity
- Use AirDrop to send items to nearby devices
- Hand off tasks between devices
- Control your iPhone from your Mac
- Copy and paste between devices
- Stream video and audio with AirPlay
- Make and receive calls and text messages on your Mac
- Use your iPhone internet connection with your Mac
- Share your Wi-Fi password with another device
- Use iPhone as a webcam
- Insert sketches, photos, and scans from iPhone or iPad
- Unlock your Mac with Apple Watch
- Use your iPad as a second display
- Use one keyboard and mouse to control Mac and iPad
- Sync music, books, and more between devices
- Resources for your Mac
- Resources for your Apple devices
- Copyright and trademarks
Set up the Find My app to locate a missing Mac, device, or item
You can use the Find My app to locate and protect lost Apple devices and find items attached to an AirTag. Before your Mac, devices, or items go missing, make sure you set up Find My Mac in iCloud settings. You can locate and protect your Mac, devices, or items using the Find My app on another Mac, iPhone, or iPad, and on iCloud.com.
For more information about the Find My app on a Mac, see the Find My User Guide.
Set up Find My Mac
Go to the System Settings app
on your Mac.Click your name at the top of the sidebar.
If you don’t see your name, click “Sign in,” enter your Apple Account email address or phone number, then enter your password.
Click iCloud, click See All, click Find My Mac, then click Turn On.
If asked to allow Find My Mac to use the location of your Mac, click Allow.
Enter the name and password of an administrator of your Mac, then click Allow.
Location Services must be on to use Find My Mac. To turn it on, click Privacy & Security
in the sidebar (you may need to scroll down), then click Location Services. Turn on Location Services, enter the name and password of an administrator of your Mac, then click Unlock.If you set up your Mac with multiple user accounts, Find My Mac can only be used by one user at a time. Turning it on for one user will turn it off for any other user that had it turned on.