Re: Clown Show

Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> 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.

Should be clearly named ie iPhone or iPad or MacBook etc, the MacBook is
asleep and I’ve not opened it for a while so it tends not to show up,
though using a map is t going to help one in finding it in house, unless
it’s a truly massive building!

And yes airplane mode would cobble it!

 
I think it was a week before he found his phone in a completely separate
part of the property.
 
 

Roger Merriman