I use android, so I am not familiar with the iphone, but I have a question about the location feature.
My daughter was downtown last night after going to a ballgame. They (two guys, two gals) were walking to the light rail station, when a jitney asked if they wanted a ride somewhere. They got a ride to my house (idiots). I have no idea why they would take a jitney, we have Uber and Lyft and good light rail. Anyway...
I have a driveway sensor that records vehicles arriving/leaving. So, she arrived here at 22:56. Then the jitney left at 23:00. She left in her car at 23:05 to take her friends home, and then returned at 23:38. No other vehicles entered or left after that until I went for the paper this morning.
She was in the house and realized she didn't have her phone. So, she started texting her friends, using the find my ipad app, etc. That was around 12:10. Of course the battery was low, so it may have shut off.
This morning when she checked the find my iphone app on her ipad, it showed a last known position outside the house with a time tag of 12:08 AM. The position is right where they jitney dropped them off. But, of course when inside the house the position could be off some.
We have looked everywhere inside and outside. My question is about the position and time tag. Does that mean it was definitely here at 12:08 AM? Or could it have sent the last good position at 12:08 when someone found it and shut it off? I would think that the time tag/position are correlated, but we have looked in and around the house for 6 hours now and have not found it, so she thinks maybe the jitney driver could have found it in this car and shut it off. We are about 12 miles from the city, so an hour later I am sure he would have been back in the city.
She called and asked Verizon, of course the person didn't have any idea about this.
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Literally minutes after I posted that she found it in the grass, in a place where we bot looked multiple times. Doesn't help that it was a black case.
So the position was accurate, and the time tag was probably when it shut down
I swear by "Find my iphone"
A few years ago my wife wanted to walk a section of the Appalacian trail. Two days in, near the top of a local summit, she put down her back pack on a rock and trekked the 500' up to the peak. When she returned she saw a bear making off with her pack (which was filled with Gorp and other bear delicacies! Totally without her stuff, and with darkness less than an hour away, she called me. I pulled up Find My iPhone, and, using my laptop with Google earth, directed her to a little used side trail to a local ski area, to which I drove, directing her through the woods, following "the little blue dot" all the way. The trail I spotted on google earth was on no maps--ski resort workers used it to "relax" with a smoke (don't ask!).
I met her in the dark after directing her down the various ski trails to my car.
Unbelievable technology.
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I just used the app to play a sound on mine, so I could find it in the kitchen 3 feet from where I stood.
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Here's an app you can share with friends, you can find your, or anyone's phone for that matter, whether it's a smart phone, or not.
All you need is the phone number. Share this with friends. 🙂
Well this is just another reason to buy i"something" 😀
Or if you have an android phone, in my case $100 phone that does almost everything a $600+ iPhone or Samsung does. Use "Where's My Droid" or other apps.
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That doesn't work for me with either my android or SWMBO's iphone, but I can locate her iphone w/ the apple app.
