On Mon Mar 10 19:49:02 2025 Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 3/10/2025 5:39 PM, Roger Merriman wrote:
Apple have a find my device app/website and devices can notify if you leave them behind. Does show broadly where they are, my desktop and iPhone and iPad can if one wanted to make it beeb and so on.
My wife and I visited a friend who was terribly frustrated, trying to
find his iPhone. He was trying to use his Apple tablet to show the
phone's location, but having lots of trouble.
I'm not an Apple guy. I'm more tech savvy than him, but I wasn't making
sense of things either. We phoned Apple tech support, they gave
instructions, and he used the tablet to wander around the property
outdoors, concentrating on the last spot he remembered using it. He
showed me the tablet's display, continuously telling him "It's right
around here somewhere!"
Turned out that the tablet was showing him the tablet's own location.
And it turned out he habitually kept his phone in "airplane" mode when
not using it, meaning no info goes in or out.
I think it was a week before he found his phone in a completely separate
part of the property.
It had fallen out of my pocket driving up to the restaraunt I suppose it lodged between the seat and the center consel. Somehow, the ring tone had reset itself to a vibrate only setting and it finally shook itself free from the vibration and fell into
the rear seat footwell. As a final search I looked into the rear seat and there it was.
The idea that you have to HAVE your lost phone to find it, is something I never expected. I'm still getting emails from that site to pay them. I might just do that since it's only a buck. But that they would offer such a "service" is pretty crazy. I did
go to their site voluntarily.
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