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

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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?

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LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Kintarian@lemmy.worldOP
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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.

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can@sh.itjust.works
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If the phone isn’t dead a Tile or similar device would help ring it.

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Kintarian@lemmy.worldOP
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I will have to look that up. I don’t know much about tiles.

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tpyo@lemmy.world
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So, anyone with an android can let you use theirs and the “find device” app in guest mode. Your info won’t be saved but that option is there for exactly your use case

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Kintarian@lemmy.worldOP
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Nice

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AndrewZabar@lemmy.world
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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.

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Kintarian@lemmy.worldOP
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That’s a good idea, just get a cheapo phone.

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AndrewZabar@lemmy.world
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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.

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Prison Mike@links.hackliberty.org
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If you use iCloud with a family plan you can use another family member’s phone to find your iPhone via Find My.

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givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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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

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

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j4k3@lemmy.world
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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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AndrewZabar@lemmy.world
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Call them with what?

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Kintarian@lemmy.worldOP
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My account information

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