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How would I find my phone if I didn't have a phone to find my phone with?

Suppose I lost my phone and I could use find my phone to find it. The problem is I don’t have my phone in order to find my phone with. I don’t have a computer I don’t have a laptop All I have is a phone. How on earth would I use find my phone to find my phone?

HubertManne ,

im pretty sure if I press my tile it will ring my phone

Kintarian OP ,

I looked that up. You can change the double press on the tile from SOS to ring my phone. That’s pretty cool.

Num10ck ,

get to a web browser and go to www.icloud.com and then findmyphone app.

andrewta ,

No computer though

hedgehog ,

Other people have computers - friends, family, etc… Libraries, hotel and apartment lobbies, community centers, etc., frequently have them available for free use.

burgersc12 ,

Don’t lose it and you won’t have this issue. So tape it to your thigh and you never forget your phone! :)

Kintarian OP ,

Good plan. I’m on board with this plan!

aramis87 ,

I used my PC to wake up my android phone; there a Google thing that will make it don't for five minutes even if it's on silent. The two times that wasn't easily accessible, I asked someone nearby to call my phone. Once I found it immediately; the other time, I found it later from the "missed call" beep.

faizalr ,
@faizalr@fedia.io avatar

Do you have a watch?

Kintarian OP ,

Nope

Nougat ,

My wife would say, “Did you look?”

LainTrain ,

Uhm. Like this from any other computer that you may have, someone else may have, a public library may have, etc.

www.google.com/android/find

In general it’s very strange to not have at least a company-issued work laptop or desktop at the office if you’re an office worker, but I’m sure you could find a friend with a computer you could borrow, or go the library and use theirs.

Maybe this is culture shock because I feel like on Lemmy the average computers owned by a user is easily ~13 not counting old phones/tablets that may be ‘broken’ but could still be made to work temporarily or in a limited enough capacity to work in this use case and ofc aforementioned corpo machines.

Kintarian OP ,

I’m retired and while I do have a laptop, the laptop’s only connection to the internet is through my phone. I’m generally way out in the woods somewhere. And the only connection I have is a cellular connection. I was mostly just curious what people would say.

can ,

If the phone isn’t dead a Tile or similar device would help ring it.

Kintarian OP ,

I will have to look that up. I don’t know much about tiles.

Hello_there ,

Give me your number and I will call you

Kintarian OP ,

666

Kolanaki , (edited )
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar
  1. Ask someone else with a phone.
  2. Use a library/work computer.

I’m pretty sure a phone store of your carrier could also help you. I’m 99% positive I’ve seen them advertising such support at my local TMO.

Kintarian OP ,

I bet your provider probably has some way to help you find your device.

AndrewZabar ,

Go to a library or a friend or wherever you can access a computer. Even buy a prepaid phone with the least data you can get so it’s cheap, and use that to locate your phone.

Just for the sake of saying it, in this age it’s rather rare to find someone who has only one Internet connected device whatsoever. If that’s the case really, and it’s your phone, then you really need to have extra precaution. Get a cheap backup phone like an Android you can get for like $10 even a really good one. I buy and sell these they’re very cheap these days if you don’t need the best. Don’t have to have a cellular plan on it just keep it at home and you can get it from wherever you keep it and go to anywhere there’s wifi.

Kintarian OP ,

That’s a good idea, just get a cheapo phone.

AndrewZabar ,

Yeah go on eBay and buy like a Samsung Galaxy one of the ones from a few years ago. Or an LG or a UMX or a ZTE or a Nokia. Any of those running a few Android versions back. You could get one that functions perfectly and other than being no competition to newer ones, they’re fully functional. Let me know if you decide you actually want to do this, I’ll hook you up with something cheap and reliable.

Sundial ,

Borrow someone’s computer? Use one at your local library?

Kintarian OP ,

I just thought of the library idea just before I clicked on this. I don’t know why I didn’t think of that before.

givesomefucks ,

You would just have to find it…

Like, if you didn’t have anything to use the app. You would just have to physically find it…

Same way you find anything else that doesn’t have an app

Kintarian OP ,

I figured as much. I was hoping there was a workaround like I could call Apple or something.

AndrewZabar ,

Call them with what?

Kintarian OP ,

My account information

AndrewZabar ,

lol no I meant how you gonna call them without a phone?

Kintarian OP ,

Oh, I see what you mean. I suppose I could borrow someone’s phone.

Nemo ,

But if you could do that, you could use FindMyPhone.

can ,

They can only find android users

j4k3 ,
@j4k3@lemmy.world avatar

You can’t call Apple if you don’t have a phone finding phone.

^I’ll^ ^have^ ^whatever^ ^the^ ^OP^ ^is^ ^smoking…thanks^

There are more advanced ways to find a radio based on its emissions, but I believe that kind of test equipment and tech is well outside the scope of this question.

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