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You can also try shouting, “ Hey, Siri! Set a timer for 10 seconds!” to create a more persistent homing beacon. For example, if your iPhone is in range and you listen carefully, you might hear a muffled, “ I’m right here” emerge from a kid’s sock drawer (sentient ninja iPhone, I’m telling you). In addition to sounding like crazy people calling our phone like it was a dog, the method sometimes works. We wander around the house yelling, “ Hey, Siri! Where are you?” So, instead, we’ve been using this trick to help us track down the missing phone.

Playing a sound through Find My iPhone is still the best way to find a missing phone, but ain’t no one got time to log in to iCloud to do that. It’s how many a frantic “Find Mommy’s phone!” game starts 5 minutes after we should’ve left for school.

I’m starting to believe that it moves under its own volition, leaping from beside her and then tucking and rolling beneath the couch before it can be abandoned in a dark, cold Dunkin Donuts parking lot again. But rest assured that I’m not the only one who can’t take care of an iPhone 4.Īnyway, while I’m happy to report that we’ve broken far fewer iPhones in recent history (thanks, Otterbox!), my wife’s iPhone still consistently disappears whenever she takes her eyes off of it for a second. You’re probably wondering: “Why do these highly irresponsible people even deserve to have iPhones?”Īnd I’ll tell you why… I don’t know why. Nevertheless, the phone still worked and continued to work until I dropped it into the bathtub several months later. Sometimes, finding her phone is easy, like the one time I just looked at her and said, “It’s in your hand.” Other times, it’s harder, like when we used iCloud Find My iPhone, and I found it in the Dunkin Donuts parking lot, face down, inches away from the tires of an SUV.