Phone finder?

Dean Hoffman snipped-for-privacy@windstream.net wrote

Yes, or you can just ring the smartphone from the landline etc.

Ring it from the landline.

And need more than a landline too.

I think he wants to get rid of the landline. Saving money, ya know. He uses a walker so asking the neighbors for help might not work very well.

Yes, within his house. He needs a walker to get around so turning the house upside down during a search would be pretty strenuous for the old guy.

Even this answer, the troll said:

Is there such a thing as a locator that

So, what's this unnamed alleged locating device to a smartphone that locates it by clapping that the troll implies exists?

Another way that does exist to locate it would be to have the smartphone set up to access mail and to then send an email to yourself. Mine issues a chime when a new email arrives. I think you can send texts via a computer too, so sending texts to the phone would make it chime too. Simplest, easiest is to ring it from another phone, if you have one. You can GPS locate it also from a computer, that could help determine if it's in the house, car, shed or you left it at the library.

I know someone who is often losing things. Sometimes the same thing several times a day.

With phones, you may have another phone you can call it from.

Here's a variety of locating devices:

There are several GPS or proximity devices out there that one can attach to an object (such as a set of keys/fob) which will alert if the carrying walks to far away and some that can be found through an app, though of course, the phone would be needed for that one.

Yeah, I have done that myself. In my case the landline is free with the broadband but I don’t use it for calls anymore.

Yeah, one of those clappers in the smartphone case is likely the best approach for him. In theory you can enable full time siri on a recent iphone and just ask siri something and hear where the response comes from but in practice at least with my iphone 6s it doesn’t recognise the command from very far away, certainly not in a house when you have the phone in the bedroom and are in the kitchen or main room etc. Dunno if any of the androids are much more sensitive, seems unlikely. Personally in his situation I'd try to get him to have the phone on a lanyard etc so if he has a fall he can call someone, but when my dad was in that situation, without the walker, I couldn’t get him to do that. He appeared to have decided that it was the proof that he had become that decrepit.

And were so f****ng stupid that you couldn’t even manage to work out that that was always bullshit.

Not very good for finding a phone left somewhere in the house tho.

Something like this should work and isnt expensive.

He didn't express a concern for price, only for a solution to his problem. What's expensive to you may not be to another and vice versa.

Whoops, nothing left. Wota surprise.

But we have since been told that he likely wont be able to call the smartphone from the landline because he appears to want to stop paying for the landline once he has a smartphone. That would make sense given that my smartphone plan gives me unlimited calls and texts and MMSs to any landline or cellphone in the country and

If he does want to avoid paying for a landline now, its not very likely that he would be too keen on paying for a smart watch just to find the smartphone.