The situation is as follows. We’re at home and we lost our iPhone, maybe it’s in the kitchen, maybe it’s in a closet. We look to the Apple Watch for make noise on our phonebut… [insertar sonido de grillos] Nothing happens. What can we do about it?
What if I had left it here?!
The function of ping or the location of our iPhone from the Apple Watch to which we refer is the one that appears in the control center of our watch. The one that shows a small iPhone with waves on the sides. This is a function ideal for quickly locating our phone
One of the most common reasons why this function is not available is that our iPhone or Apple Watch have Bluetooth and Wi-Fi disabled, something that, in general, we should avoid. In this situation, we can do several things.
The easiest way will be to go to the app Find devices of our Apple Watch, select our iPhone from the list and touch the option play sound. do like that we will give the order to reproduce the sound via the internetso as long as our Apple Watch is connected to the network and our iPhone is not turned off or with mobile data disabled (in addition to Wi-Fi and Bluetooth), we can make it ring.
Another option, if at this time we cannot connect our Apple Watch to the Internet, is to use a Mac, iPad or iPhone, ours and someone else’s, to go to iCloud.com. After entering our credentials and entering the search application, we can make our iPhone play a sound. A resource, by the way, with which we can find lost AirPods.
The penultimate option, if none of this works, is to call us on our own phone to ring it. An option, however, which will not be available if we have activated airplane mode, for example. In this case, although it is a somewhat rudimentary process, the best we can do is shout “Hey Siri”
With this we can locate our iPhone even if it is completely disconnected from the network, since Hey Siri works locally in iOS 15 and, if it has an earlier version, it also detects the “Hey Siri” command to respond that it has no connection. With him it is necessary to avoid starting to open the drawers and to rummage in the cushions.