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Does your data have to be on in order to use the "find my iphone" ap?

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If I want to see if I can locate my iphone from an ipad, does the data have to be on my iphone?
 

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If I want to see if I can locate my iphone from an ipad, does the data have to be on my iphone?

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For Find My iPhone to work, it needs to be connected to the internet, since that is how it communicates with the Apple servers, which is where you are tracking the device from. If there is no data connection, you cannot track the device.
 

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