A story of loss and recovery as I hear the bin lorry approach.
In brief: It seems that my Apple Watch confused the Find My app in locating a lost iPhone
I attach screenshot from Find My app.
In the first one, the iPhone is supposedly located down the street, together with my Apple Watch which I had on my wrist throughout. This is a GPS model not a GPS + Cellular model, and so depends on the iPhone, but this coincidence of supposed location led me to believe that location for the missing iPhone.
The second relocates the missing iPhone, but again oddly it has my Air Pods in that misleading location.
Longer version now follows.
I realised that my iPhone was running out of battery not long before I knew I had to leave the house to catch a bus that I was tracking on my local Bus app so I put it on charge by my seat while I went to put on shoes and make sure I had put the battery charger in my raincoat - Storm Flores had just passed over the UK ...
Returning to check that bus app again, I realised I needed to rush as that bus was arriving quicker than first supposed ...
My memory of what exactly had then happened had disappeared by the time I was on the bus noting that I had the charger but not the iPhone. I decided I must have left it behind indoors in my haste to catch that bus.
Returning home last night I confirmed that the phone was not still on charge and proceeded to search about the house. I then turned to the Find My app which declared that my iPhone was not in the house but [as per attached screenshot] down the street on the route by which I had rushed for the bus. Perhaps needlessly, I instructed the iPhone to play a sound, although noting that the battery was low, and searched about the house once more.
I then went outdoors and retraced my steps to the bus stop, past where the Find My app said I would find it, looking into gardens and under cars. But alas, no joy. It now being late at night, I put a note and that screenshot on the neighbourhood WhatsApp and decided to try to get some sleep.
Woke up in the early hours, probably still worrying, and went down to look at the Find My app again. This time it located my iPhone much closer to my house. I searched again, even opening the front door supposing some one had placed on the door step. But, again, no joy and I went back to try to get some sleep.
Waking again much later, and assisted by morning coffee I went through all that might have happened. I then recalled that when rushing to leave the house I had paused to pick up a bag of rubbish to pop it in the grey bin which was due to be emptied in the morning. That bin was now outside ...
Eureka! The iPhone was there at the bottom of the grey bin.
Of course I rebuke myself for my haste and carelessness: needing one hand to open the front door, I had picked up the trash/rubbish sack with the same hand I was holding my iPhone and, distracted in my rush to catch that bus, I had dropped both into the grey bin!
During the course of writing this sorry tale, the bin men have come by and emptied the contents of that grey bin, "sans iPhone", I'm pleased to report ...
In brief: It seems that my Apple Watch confused the Find My app in locating a lost iPhone
I attach screenshot from Find My app.
In the first one, the iPhone is supposedly located down the street, together with my Apple Watch which I had on my wrist throughout. This is a GPS model not a GPS + Cellular model, and so depends on the iPhone, but this coincidence of supposed location led me to believe that location for the missing iPhone.
The second relocates the missing iPhone, but again oddly it has my Air Pods in that misleading location.
Longer version now follows.
I realised that my iPhone was running out of battery not long before I knew I had to leave the house to catch a bus that I was tracking on my local Bus app so I put it on charge by my seat while I went to put on shoes and make sure I had put the battery charger in my raincoat - Storm Flores had just passed over the UK ...
Returning to check that bus app again, I realised I needed to rush as that bus was arriving quicker than first supposed ...
My memory of what exactly had then happened had disappeared by the time I was on the bus noting that I had the charger but not the iPhone. I decided I must have left it behind indoors in my haste to catch that bus.
Returning home last night I confirmed that the phone was not still on charge and proceeded to search about the house. I then turned to the Find My app which declared that my iPhone was not in the house but [as per attached screenshot] down the street on the route by which I had rushed for the bus. Perhaps needlessly, I instructed the iPhone to play a sound, although noting that the battery was low, and searched about the house once more.
I then went outdoors and retraced my steps to the bus stop, past where the Find My app said I would find it, looking into gardens and under cars. But alas, no joy. It now being late at night, I put a note and that screenshot on the neighbourhood WhatsApp and decided to try to get some sleep.
Woke up in the early hours, probably still worrying, and went down to look at the Find My app again. This time it located my iPhone much closer to my house. I searched again, even opening the front door supposing some one had placed on the door step. But, again, no joy and I went back to try to get some sleep.
Waking again much later, and assisted by morning coffee I went through all that might have happened. I then recalled that when rushing to leave the house I had paused to pick up a bag of rubbish to pop it in the grey bin which was due to be emptied in the morning. That bin was now outside ...
Eureka! The iPhone was there at the bottom of the grey bin.
Of course I rebuke myself for my haste and carelessness: needing one hand to open the front door, I had picked up the trash/rubbish sack with the same hand I was holding my iPhone and, distracted in my rush to catch that bus, I had dropped both into the grey bin!
During the course of writing this sorry tale, the bin men have come by and emptied the contents of that grey bin, "sans iPhone", I'm pleased to report ...
