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Ha, last winter I lost my phone while snowboarding in the last 300-500m before mountain base. I noticed because I was listening to music with my airpods when I
by janus 3y ago
Ha, last winter I lost my phone while snowboarding in the last 300-500m before mountain base. I noticed because I was listening to music with my airpods when I got to the bottom the music had gone silent. Thankfully I had my Apple watch with me, so I immediately got off the board and start running uphill while incessantly spamming the "ping my phone" button. At some point I saw in the watch screen it briefly connected and then immediately disconnected again. I realized somebody had probably grabbed it and skied by me. I went back running to the chairlift while still spamming the button and finally found the person who had grabbed it, a few seconds before he got into the chairlift. I felt that day that the watch investment had been worth it hah.
- olyjohn 3y agoLost my FRS radio up on the mountain once. I started calling it from my friends radio... "Hello, I'm a lost radio, please find me" and someone called me back and met up with me to return the radio.
- amatecha 3y agohahaha, that's great! I can imagine hiking along and hearing this scratchy voice emanating from "nowhere", tracking it down and finding this lonely radio on the ground, pleading for help to be brought back to its owner! :)
- lxgr 3y agoMy friend was able to retrieve his phone that had just been pickpocketed out of his backpack that way! "Hey, did you just grab my phone" can take some courage to say to a stranger; "Hey, I can hear my phone ringing in your bag when I press this button!" was much more convincing.
- pestatije 3y agocan you not power-off an iphone without unlocking?
- lxgr 3y agoYou 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).
- oldbbsnickname 3y agoThat 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.
- klinquist 3y agobut turning it off requires your password/PIN.
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- wincy 3y agoYeah but turning on airplane mode does disable find my
- lxgr 3y agoIt doesn’t, as far as I know (or rather, it might turn off the ability to ping the phone, but passive Bluetooth/Find my cloud location should still work). And even if it does, turning on Airplane mode is not possible anymore for a locked phone.
- oldbbsnickname 3y agoDisassemble and remove the battery. I can do this in about 1-2 minutes, others more skilled can do it in <30 seconds.
- InSteady 3y agoThis reads like an ad.
- subarctic 3y agoWas he stealing it? I found a phone on the slopes last year, but I gave it to the liftee - figured I'd let them figure out how to get it back to the owner.