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From: Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: Re: Clown Show
Date: 11 Mar 2025 10:12:36 GMT
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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