Guides
Short, practical walkthroughs for seeing your Mac’s lock state from your iPhone. Each guide takes one job — installing the free Mac helper, reading the widgets — and walks through it in order. Written for someone setting it up for the first time.
How to install the Lock Status Mac helper
Installing a Mac app that arrives as a DMG instead of from the App Store: the download, the first-open prompt, and what to do if macOS blocks it.
Read guide →Locked or asleep? What your Mac's status means
The difference between a locked Mac and a sleeping one — and how to read a status that might be minutes old.
Read guide →Does closing the lid lock your MacBook?
Shutting the lid sleeps a MacBook. Locking is a separate setting: where it lives, and what you can and can't confirm once you've walked away.
Read guide →See when your Mac was last used
What macOS records on its own, and how to read a lock and unlock history from your iPhone without mistaking a gap in it for a quiet afternoon.
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