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I dropped my phone somewhere out in a 5 acre sage field and have spent all day looking for it. I have the locations turned off. Is there any hope?


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So you don’t have find my iPhone activated???? That’s your possible hope if you activated it and left location on for that. Otherwise I don’t know what to tell you. Good luck. Hope you find it.


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Can you not take another cell phone and call yourself? You may be able to hear it ring.


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Originally Posted by mw2015
So you don’t have find my iPhone activated???? That’s your possible hope if you activated it and left location on for that. Otherwise I don’t know what to tell you. Good luck. Hope you find it.
I have the locations turned off under the privacy part. I don’t think I have find my phone off. Can I use wife’s phone to locate it with that?


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Can you not take another cell phone and call yourself? You may be able to hear it ring.
I tried that all day. Had the volume turned way down on phone.


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So you don’t have find my iPhone activated???? That’s your possible hope if you activated it and left location on for that. Otherwise I don’t know what to tell you. Good luck. Hope you find it.
I have the locations turned off under the privacy part. I don’t think I have find my phone off. Can I use wife’s phone to locate it with that?

I would try because if you have find my iPhone there is a chance location is turned on for that app on your iPhone. I have location turned off in privacy but several apps are still on individually including Find my iPhone. Try it.


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Wait till dark then call it. You should see it light up

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Maybe get a small drone up at dusk to help spot light. Or maybe if sunny a reflection off phone.

Another option is to get several friends to slowly walk the field and sweep the whole area.


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How tall is the sage? Last ditch effort would be to mow the field and hope the phone survives the blades.


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I see it in my wife’s find phone app in the field but I walked it for hours today. It’s not detailed enough to arrow it down or show my present location and walk to it. There is a option to play a sound but I don’t know if it will be low volume or not.


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go to: icloud.com/find and sign-in to see last known location.

If you have someone with a thermal drone it might detect the small amount of heat from the battery or sitting in sun.

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Run the tracker in onX to see where you’ve walked to make sure you cover it all.

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The sound will play at full volume, or at least mine did when I lost it bush hogging. Get as close as possible and then play the sound. I logged into my I cloud and was able to get within a few yards of it before I activated the sound


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Go buy a new phone and you'll find the list phone the next time you're in the field

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Originally Posted by Double Creek2
The sound will play at full volume, or at least mine did when I lost it bush hogging. Get as close as possible and then play the sound. I logged into my I cloud and was able to get within a few yards of it before I activated the sound
Yep. Loud no matter what you got it set on.


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My phone screen does not always work right, usually a lot of misspelled words....

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Is it paired to an Apple Watch. You can make it make sounds that way.


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Originally Posted by countryjwh
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The sound will play at full volume, or at least mine did when I lost it bush hogging. Get as close as possible and then play the sound. I logged into my I cloud and was able to get within a few yards of it before I activated the sound
Yep. Loud no matter what you got it set on.
I figured that out and got wife to set it off when I got out in field. Found it👍🏻Good feature cause I had the volume turned all the way down.Thanks for help.


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So. How close you get previously. Prior to it ringing.


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What sound did you play?

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