Everyone, who more or less, happens to waste time searching for the lost cell phone. It may have remained in the bag, in a backpack, in the car, under a blanket, under a shirt, it may have fallen behind a piece of furniture or had been placed who knows where in the house.
The best way to find your lost cell phone at home is to have it called by another phone to make it ring, which works unless the cell phone is out of range or if the ringtone is muted.
Depending on the type of phone there are various ways to find the lost mobile phone by making it ring, even if it has been set as silent or if it does not take the line, offline or in airplane mode .
First of all, without installing other applications, you can make your smartphone ring using the internal functions of Android phones and iPhones.
For all Android smartphones, you can activate the " Find my Android " function which allows you to make your phone ring even if it is silent.
On iPhone, a similar function is offered by iCloud by activating " find my iPhone " in the iPhone settings.
As learned, in the event of a lost iPhone, you can have the phone ring from icloud.com.
Speaking of Android smartphones, there are also other ways of ringing and ringing the lost phone even if silent via rather original apps.
The first is Wheres My Droid, which also works with an offline phone, without an internet connection. If you install this free application, you can make sure that when the phone receives a certain SMS, then the phone starts ringing and ringing. For example, you can send an SMS that says " ring immediately " to make it ring.
The same function can be activated in the Android Lost application, one of the best apps for finding stolen or lost mobile phones. This alarm allows you to control a phone using SMS or even from a website. Via SMS you can make the lost cell phone ring even if it is offline (by sending a text message with androidlost alarm 5 ), or even use emergency functions such as that to locate it or delete its memory if the cell phone has been stolen. This application is able to reactivate the sounds by sending an SMS with written androidlost sound on ).
If the phone was completely offline, so much so that it could not even receive SMS (as in Airplane mode), there are some applications that, if installed, are able to recognize a remote sound command, such as clapping.
Clap To find is an app that allows you to make your lost phone ring around the house by clapping your hands . Once installed, this application asks to record the sound of clapping. When you lose your phone, you can then clap three times and make your cell phone ring, even if you can't see it nearby.
A similar app with better reviews is Clap To Find My Phone, which after the calibration of recognition of the sound of the clapping of hands, can detect the phone and make it ring automatically or make it flash the flash or the screen to be able to see it at night noiseless.
Still other applications that work in making the phone ring when clapping are:
- clap phone finder
- Find phone by clapping
Another type of application, Whistle Phone Finder, free for Android phones, manages to make the phone ring by whistling .
In practice, if you never remember where the smartphone was placed, to find it easily at any time, you can whistle in the house or in a room and locate it on the fly thanks to a sound response, which works even if the phone it is in silent mode or if it does not take the line . Whistle Phone Finder can be installed on practically any Android device, free and without the need for root. The configuration of the application is quite simple. First of all, the whistle detection must be activated. Then you choose the detection sensitivity that is best kept low or medium if you don't want your cell phone to ring itself every time you hear a whistle on the street. Then enable the audio notification, otherwise you will not receive any answer sound, and choose the sound among those proposed or among the standard ones of the phone. Finally, enable the option to always keep the volume high so that the app can work even if the volumes are all turned down to minimum or silent. Also in this case the app, in order to work, requires that the mobile phone is still nearby, otherwise it will not be able to hear the whistle.
If you want to try an alternative app, you can install Whistle & Find, very similar, always based on the whistle.
