Happy New Year Ronni, Over the three days that the battery lasted, I had tried, a number of times, each of the steps recommended by you and as recommended in the other links. Each and every time the location was identifed as being the location where the phone was less than a minute ago.
A colleague has just sent me a reply in which he recounts how a phone which was broadcasting its location as being in an address in Pier Street was actually in a court room some distance away from that address and was recovered because the incessant ringing of the phone annoyed the judge enough for him to tell one of the ushers to answer the phone. Sadly, my phone wasn’t answered by any one, annoyed or otherwise. C’est la vie During the hunt I learnt a valuable lesson, and that is to buy a case which incorporates a magnet in the catch. I made the msitake of leaving my wife’s iphone on the roof of my car while I drove off to a different location to see if my phone was hidden somewhere in my car. It wasn’t, but I was rather surprised (and relieved) to find my wife’s phoone sitting on the car roof when I got home after I’d driven up and down a number of hills and gone around a number of corners :)) Cheers, Michael. > On 31 Dec 2017, at 8:51 pm, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > After more than 24 has passed since the last location was sent to Apple (if > Send Last Location is turned on). It does look like someone has picked the > iPhone up from the neighbour’s front lawn. > > Sometimes when an iOS device goes missing, Find My iPhone helps to locate and > recover the device. Ideally, the battery on the lost iPhone has enough juice > for iCloud to track the location live. > In some cases, the lost device has a dead battery or is simply turned off. So > does Find My iPhone still work? Live tracking will not work, but Find My > iPhone may still be able to lead you to your missing phone by showing you its > last known location. > > Instead of a green circle on a map identifying the iPhone's current location, > the last known location of the iOS device will be displayed by a grey circle. > Clicking the grey circle, then clicking the information icon (i) will provide > more details, including the last time the device was seen at this location. > Unless the lost device is plugged in to charge, the current location cannot > be found. > > https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT204233 > <https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT204233> > https://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/iphone/how-find-lost-iphone-ipad-even-if-battery-has-died-3612189/ > > <https://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/iphone/how-find-lost-iphone-ipad-even-if-battery-has-died-3612189/> > I’ve got to get back to New Years Eve celebrations now 🍾🥂 > > > Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB > > > On 31 Dec 2017, at 8:32 pm, Michael Hawkins <michael.hawk...@mjhawkins.com.au > <mailto:michael.hawk...@mjhawkins.com.au>> wrote: > >> Hello Ronni, >> >> I had taken each of the steps suggested by you Ronni. The problem is that >> the iPhone is not where it says it is. >> I’m wondering if there is a hack which enables who ever hacks the phone to >> make it appear it is somewhere other than where “Find my iPhone” says it is. >> >> I’ve gone back to an iPhone 4 pending the recovery of the newer model which >> I had had for 2 days. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Michael >> >>> On 31 Dec 2017, at 3:59 pm, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com >>> <mailto:ro...@mac.com>> wrote: >>> >>> Hello Michael, >>> >>> My comments in Situ below. >>> >>>> On 31 Dec 2017, at 3:16 pm, Michael Hawkins >>>> <michael.hawk...@mjhawkins.com.au >>>> <mailto:michael.hawk...@mjhawkins.com.au>> wrote: >>>> >>>> I recently lost an iPhone, and used Find my iPhone to try and find it. >>> >>> If your device goes missing, put it in Lost Mode to lock it immediately and >>> start tracking its location. Find My iPhone will show you where it’s been >>> over the last 24 hours. >>>> >>>> According to the spot on the map, the iPhone was in the middle of the >>>> closely mown lawn in the neighbour’s front yard across the street. We >>>> couldn’t find the iPhone nor could we hear any sound from it, nor could we >>>> hear it ring when we rang it. >>> >>> Sounds like the iPhone has ‘silent’ mode turned on, if no sound is heard. >>>> >>>> I used f”ind my iPhone” on three different devices over the next three >>>> days, from a variety of locations up to 20 km away from the neighbour’s >>>> place. The result was identical on each of them, the location my missing >>>> phone less than “1 minute ago” as being in the middle of the front lawn. >>>> >>>> The battery has now gone flat, but just in case someone recharges the >>>> battery and turns the phone on, I’d like to know what to do if, yet again, >>>> the iPhone is reported as being in the middle of the yard. Or what I could >>>> have done. >>> >>> Use the Find My iPhone app or sign in to iCloud.com <http://icloud.com/> to >>> view your device’s location on a map. Your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch will >>> also mark its location when its battery is critically low, to help you find >>> it even if it runs out of power. >>> >>> Activation Lock is designed to prevent anyone from using or selling your >>> device. The moment you turn on Find My iPhone, your Apple ID and password >>> will be required before anyone can turn off Find My iPhone, erase your >>> device, or reactivate it. >>>> >>>> Each device I used was using the latest iOS. >>>> >>>> Happy New Year >>>> >>>> Michael >>> >>> Happy New year >>> Cheers, >>> Ronni >>> >>> Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml >>> <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml>> >>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml >>> <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml>> >>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug >>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml >> <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml>> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml >> <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml>> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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