“Do you have a tendency to lose your iPhone? I don’t mean like LOSE it, but more like the ‘leave it in the other room, or have it slide under the seat of your car or between the couch cushions’ type of losing it,” Chris Hauk writes for MacTrast. “Well, if you have an Apple Watch, you can use its handy iPhone pinging function to play Marco Polo with your iPhone until you find it.”
“You’ll want to make sure your iPhone and your Apple Watch are paired, because you can’t ping any iPhone except for the one the Apple Watch is paired with,” Hauk writes. “Tthis trick only works when the iPhone and the Apple Watch are connected, so they’ll have to be in close proximity of each other.”
“But, if you work your way through the whole house and never hear a ping,” Hauk writes, “you’ll probably want to place the iPhone in lost mode with Find My iPhone.”
The very easy method detailed in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: We’ve used it more than once and it worked like a charm every time!
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Slow day.
“Tthis trick only works when the iPhone and the Apple Watch are connected, so they’ll have to be in close proximity of each other.” [emphasis mine]
No, they just have to be connected via network. I do this all the time.
Says to “hold down the ping button” instead of tapping it to get a flashing screen on the phone. Doesn’t seem to work for me.
“You’re holding it wrong.”
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Hell! I came back to response hoping to read a solution. Still funny though. +1
I just tried it. No, it doesn’t flash the screen, it flashes the camera flash LED on the back of the phone if you press and hold. Otherwise, you just get the ping sound.
Seriously? A discovery? Slide up the Watch menu and it’s right in front of our faces.
I use this around the house all of the time. Wonderful feature, practically justifying alone the investment in an Apple Watch