This is handy. See it once whether your lost phone is in your bag, left at your mother's, back in the office, in the car parked on the street corner, in the restaurant or pub, the hotel gym locker, in the bag left behind in the boot of the car of the friend who gave you a lift home, on the bus, in the bus lost property office, or taken to another country.
If your spare phone is with your child or husband, you might be able to locate them, too. Those kids who get left behind on the locked bus - if Mum had a locator for a phone, she could check her child had reached school.
Stuck In A Shopping Centre
I remember being stuck in Brent Cross shopping centre, with my sleeping toddler in a buggy. The lifts stopped. Then the doors were shut. If my husband had had a locator, he could have found me and phoned me, and told security which lift at which end of the which building.
Airport
When you get into the taxi to the airport, you check your tickets and passport. Then your phone. What about the second phone, the one with the foreign phone numbers? Is it back home? Do you need to stop the taxi, open the door, pick it up from the kitchen or bedroom or study? You still have time to go back. but you don't want to waste time and inconvenience everybody. Is it with you? In the suitcase in the boot of the car? (Boot is what the British say. Americans call the boot the trunk.) Try ringing it, but it's off. Find my phone.
You can get help from your phone supplier (such as Apple) or account supplier (such as Google).
https://myaccount.google.com/find-your-phone?
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Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. I have many other tips on travel and destinations. Please share links to your favourite posts.
If your spare phone is with your child or husband, you might be able to locate them, too. Those kids who get left behind on the locked bus - if Mum had a locator for a phone, she could check her child had reached school.
Stuck In A Shopping Centre
I remember being stuck in Brent Cross shopping centre, with my sleeping toddler in a buggy. The lifts stopped. Then the doors were shut. If my husband had had a locator, he could have found me and phoned me, and told security which lift at which end of the which building.
Airport
When you get into the taxi to the airport, you check your tickets and passport. Then your phone. What about the second phone, the one with the foreign phone numbers? Is it back home? Do you need to stop the taxi, open the door, pick it up from the kitchen or bedroom or study? You still have time to go back. but you don't want to waste time and inconvenience everybody. Is it with you? In the suitcase in the boot of the car? (Boot is what the British say. Americans call the boot the trunk.) Try ringing it, but it's off. Find my phone.
You can get help from your phone supplier (such as Apple) or account supplier (such as Google).
https://myaccount.google.com/find-your-phone?
Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. I have many other tips on travel and destinations. Please share links to your favourite posts.
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