My father found an iPhone while out walking his dogs. it’s case and screen protector looked like it saw better days. I finally got it charged, took the screen protector off because I couldn’t take it looking that way 🤣 and it has an sos in the top right corner. It doesn’t have any lost mode information on it but I’ve seen alerts come up for medication and games.
Since my trying to figure out how to find the owner gotten me into this iPhone unavailable, is there anything else I can try to reunite the phone and owner or should I call it a day and dispose of it?
Can you plug it into a Mac at home or take it to an Apple Store? The serial numbers will be attached to the owner.
Apple store won’t do anything with it.
Whenever I find a stray iPhone (which I’ve found a few), I just ask Siri to call mom. Let someone know I found the phone and I’m leaving it at this or that lost and found. So far I haven’t come across one that didn’t have mom saved in their contacts
Sometimes people have their Siri set up to not activate at first without a passcode. Seems to be the case with this one.
That’s my phone! Give it back
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Hold the lock button and when siri pops up say call mom, dad, husband, or wife. One of those will almost always work.
That’s if Siri is enabled. I keep Siri disabled. I don’t care for something that’s always listening. Outside of Frasier that is 😀
Back in my day, the answer was always a simple “call Home”
Ask Siri ‘Whose phone is this?’
I can’t ask Siri, it just says to enter passcode to use Siri.
Send it to buyback they will give you a few bucks for it
Not if it’s attached to an iCloud account.
If you have an Apple Store close by, you can take it to them.
Apple employee here: don’t do that, we are not allowed to do anything about lost phones.
Take it to the nearest police station.
Police don’t want to handle something like this and won’t care for it
It’s like the game of hot potato. No no don’t take it to the police station they won’t do anything.
Take it to the nearest recycling bin
He’s just reciting Apples policy. If you mention a lost phone they gotta say take it to the police. If someone says they lose their phone you gotta tell them to call the police.
When I found a phone , I restarted it and saw the service provider. So I just bought it to them. I’m sure they figured it out from there.
Yeah they brought it home
Can you press and hold volume up and side button where they have any emergency contacts set up?
Just takes me to the slide to power off and emergency call.
If it comes up SOS, they’ve already written it off
Not true. That’s apples emergency calling service that uses satellites when the phone has no signal. Looks like the sim has been deactivated.
Its not the satellite thing. It’s just within range of any cell tower. By law they have to let you make emergency calls even without a sim or plan. This shows up as SOS on iOS.
Check medical id by pressing volume up and power button
Ugh. I lost my iPhone 12pro someone pickpocketed in Vegas and it was last seen in LA. I wish this was mine ):
Or wait for someone to call you and answer them enquiring about the owner
If there’s an Apple Store nearby just give it to them. They may be able to locate the owner. At the very least I believe they have software to get into the device.
If there’s no improvement in the situation and it’s just been a paperweight for some time you could possibly sell it for parts, as a last resort. That’s if the owner has become impossible to find.