Q: How to turn off Find My Mac utility.
Find my Mac does as it says on the tin, it finds your Mac! It also provides options to lock and remote wipe the system—that's all I know of it. Here is my best-guess solution at having FMM disabled and preventing the person I purchased from being able to track or lock the system: Wipe the disk entirely in another system, no recovery HD, nothing. To help prevent macros that contain viruses from contaminating your system, by default Office for Mac displays a warning message whenever you try to open a document that contains a macro. Enable or disable macros in Office for Mac. This message appears regardless of whether the macro actually contains a virus. You can turn off the. Ensure your Mac and your smart or Apple TV are linked to one WiFi network. At the menu, on top of your Mac display, locate the AirPlay icon – a monitor with an arrow at the bottom. Select the TV you fancy your Mac to be mirrored on. A password will be visible on your TV screen. Type it on your Mac. To stop screen mirroring, disable.
The IS&T Service Center is unable to create a repair / order parts from GSX (Apple diagnostics and repair service page) if the Find My Mac feature is enabled.
Find my Mac is Apple’s security feature to protect the machine from being used and modified by a third party without the owner’s permission. If the machine is 2018 or later and has T2 security chip, unfortunately IS&T cannot order parts until Find My Mac is disabled on the device.
Answer
A user can disable the feature by logging into iCloud.
- Go to https://www.icloud.com/settings/.
- Type your Apple ID and password. An icon will appear.
- Click on the device and it will give you an option to remove it from find my Mac security server. Then select (X) right next to the device to remove it.
Further Information
- Related Vendor instructions are found at Apple.
- If the service was unable to be disabled remotely the user will need to visit Apple and unlock the device in person. This feature can always be turn back on after the repair is completed.
- Please let the IS&T Service Center know once this is complete, or visit to make the change at your convenience. Once completed the team will be able to place the part order.
Sierra 10.12.1
I've just spent a day trying to disable Find My Mac feature.
My Mac is mostly at home, so it's presence in the list distracts me from searching other devices.
In Settings-iCloud I tried to remove just one FMM checkbox and also tried removing the whole iCloud account with no luck:
'Please try again later.'
Enabling Find My Mac Will Disable It Forgot
Turn On Find My Mac
Moreover, when I tried to remove the whole iCloud account, my CPU raised to 100% by 'com.preferences.icloud.remoteservice' process, until I clicked Cancel.
The final solution was pretty simple - my computer account had empty password. When I had set one, disabling FMM worked in a minute.
Just wondering if this forum is the place for bug report?)
MacBook Air, macOS Sierra (10.12.1), null
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