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On 3/10/2025 7:55 PM, Mark J cleary wrote:
> On 3/10/2025 6:49 PM, 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.
>>
>>
> My Garmin 945 I wear all the time if I say find my phone will keep 
> having my phone beep till I pick it up. Damn cool.
> 

Yeah, that's handy, my 745 has the same feature.

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