IPhone – Find the iPhone: how to identify each device

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A friend of mine got her iPhone stolen. When entering iCloud to activate the "Find my iPhone" feature, I see that her account has 3 phones associated with it. The 3 phones are named:

  • Iphone
  • Iphone
  • (Name)'s Iphone.

How can I know which is her current one? Her previous models are a iPhone 4S, an iPhone 5 and an iPhone 6. I don't see any place to check each phone's model.

Best Answer

If you load the image of your device in "Find My iPhone" in a new tab, you are able to get the model identifier ID from the URL. As an example, here's the URL for an iPad that I lost quite a while ago:

https://statici.icloud.com/fmipmobile/deviceImages-9.0/iPad/iPad2,1/locked-nolocation_ipad.png

I wasn't sure whether this was an iPad 1 or 2, but the URL clearly shows that it's an iPad 2 (iPad2,1).

See this list of all Mac model identifiers, and this one for mobile devices.

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