If you have an Apple Watch, there is a nifty trick of pressing and holding the "Locate Phone" button in the Control Center. Doing so also engages the phone's flashlight so you can find it at night.
How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?
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Re: How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?
#302My brother dropped his iPhone during a powder snow traversal down the back of the mountain to a hut. We found it accidentally during a hike in the summer, when the snow was gone. Always be prepared to lose everything.
I'm so paranoid about dropping my shit from a ski lift that I've taken to a chestpack, lanyards and karabiners. It makes me feel better.
Watch out for any of those dangly bits getting caught on the lift, I almost got dragged by my backpack strap a few years ago. IMO better to lose the gear.
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#303This reminds me of the kind of hack I came up with, almost 20 years back. I used to work in Bangalore, and now and then, we would have a power outage in the evening that lasts for a few hours. I was single and used to live alone. I did not want to go home from the office and find myself without power. So how do I find out there is power at home? During those days, there were no IOT devices so checking them is that's…
How long was the commute from office to home? Depending on this you still had risks of phone working while at the office, power out when back home, no?
10-15 mins walk. ~5 mins by motorbike
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#304Earlier quoted context omitted.
Try that with most retailers and the conversation ends at delivered. Your only option is to hit them with a summons and that's not a guarantee. So with due respect that reality doesn't exist. One reason I buy stuff from Amazon mostly is they are big enough to eat the issues and I put enough business through one service to be a customer worth keeping. Everyone else, not so much. I won't go into how shit Apple are on t…
Just do a chargeback then
I'm in the middle of a problem with an item either mid-delivered or not delivered, with unresponsive retailer.
I started a dispute with my credit card company, but yesterday they emailed to tell me that they had "concluded their investigation" and that the item had indeed been delivered.
No further information. Just "it was delivered, you owe the retailer".
Apple Card uses Goldman Sachs for the bank and the customer service. While Apple may be an experienced provider of retail services, this sort of thing is relatively new to Goldman Sachs.
I contacted customer service and they believe that a report regarding the investigation will be sent to me. They might even have a delivery address. The order was placed four months ago...
Good luck getting through a situation like this with good outcome. It depends on all the players involved.
Re: How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?
#305Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can; the thief just didn’t get to do that because they were busy getting away in a non-conspicuous way. But even turned off, “Find my” stays active these days (although you can no longer make it ring, I believe).
That option can be disabled by turning off "Find My network" such that the phone will be off and radio silent. With it on, it will continue to beacon until the battery reaches the final BMS low voltage point.
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#306Earlier quoted context omitted.
>The POD had a photo of the front door and the person. I recognised the front door as it was on a local estate. What more evidence do you need?
Ok I just read on a delivery company website that they have in fact started taking photos of the moment of delivery. Wow. That is incredible. Here I always opt for delivery at a pick up location and use my electronic ID to pick it up so I had never expected delivery drivers to take, and store, photos of people.
I had this happen with FedEx a couple weeks ago for the first time. We get a lot of packages so I was surprised.
The delivery person gave me the box then ran back to me as I was walking away. "I have to take a photo to prove I delivered it." He puts it down on the ground and photographs it. Not sure what a picture of a box on a nondescript driveway would prove, but I guess he had to do it.
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#307Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you go buy a bunch of lottery tickets afterwards? Cops doing their job when you give them the entire breadcrumb trail is incredibly rare. I have many stories from friends and that I’ve seen online of the cops refusing to do anything even when you can guide them directly to the location of your stolen property. I’ve personally experienced their lack of competency when they refused to follow up on stalking/harassme…
TBH having a few police officers drive to the place then spend that time probably costs more than the price of the device.
Police officers doing anything to protect individual safety or private property costs the government money.
Whether they're helping track down a smartphone or a private jet, the victim isn't expected to reimburse them.
The benefit to society of having police spend time and money to enforce the laws in theory, is that we get to feel some sense of security in our ability to continue owning things without having to fight off raiders, or walk down a street without getting assaulted/robbed.
Past a certain point of late-stage capitalism, there might be some resultant net negative effects to society, like when the masses are starving and the police are enforcing the property rights of the top 0.1% who are hoarding 90% of wealth/food/medicine. But in that scenario the top 0.1% are unlikely to be getting involved directly to track down a single laptop
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#308Earlier quoted context omitted.
They have leveraged their userbase into an (admittedly very useful) spy network
Have you read up on how Find My works? I don’t see how it’s a spy network when only the device owner can see where a device is. Lots of people imagine that every Apple user, or at least Apple themselves, can track devices. But it doesn’t work that way.
What should I read?
Re: How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?
#309Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you go buy a bunch of lottery tickets afterwards? Cops doing their job when you give them the entire breadcrumb trail is incredibly rare. I have many stories from friends and that I’ve seen online of the cops refusing to do anything even when you can guide them directly to the location of your stolen property. I’ve personally experienced their lack of competency when they refused to follow up on stalking/harassme…
Stolen property with an address and evidence will always get actioned. It's easy and rewarding for them. Online or telephone stuff won't. It is much more complex and requires system knowledge. It's that simple.
> It's that simple.
You clearly don't understand what you're talking about if you think it's simple.
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#310Earlier quoted context omitted.
can you not power-off an iphone without unlocking?
You can; the thief just didn’t get to do that because they were busy getting away in a non-conspicuous way. But even turned off, “Find my” stays active these days (although you can no longer make it ring, I believe).
Yeah but turning on airplane mode does disable find my