First, install Track My Mac app on each MacBook you want to protect. In fact, it provides even more functionality (with paid version).Īt the minimum, you can track the devices from the MacKeeper account. From all other ways to track MacBook, the Mac Keeper is closest to Find My app from Apple. If you have Mac Keeper, then you are in luck. Let’s now explore MacBook tracking options in detail. Among them are Dropbox, Evernote, Gmail, Facebook, MS Office, and MacKeeper. Several applications run on the start, which can provide the IP and approximate location of the MacBook.

If the Find My Mac app was not enabled, then the only way to track the MacBook is by its IP address. In this case, they lack the ability to track the laptop online from the iCloud account, and the question if it is possible at all to find Mac without iCloud.

Also, a lot of users don’t think about the possibility of losing the MacBook until it’s too late. So, I can see how someone would not like to turn on Find My Mac app. The downside of this approach is that anyone with access to my iCloud account can track my location by checking where I used my devices last time.

Every time I buy a new Apple device, iPhone, or MacBook, I always register it and enable the “Find My” app.