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?
Take it to the nearest Apple Store please. Thank you!
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
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.
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
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 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.
That’s my phone! Give it back
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Ask Siri ‘Whose phone is this?’
I can’t ask Siri, it just says to enter passcode to use Siri.
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.
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.
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 😀
There’s no service on the phone / sim tho - the cellular bar is showing SOS , so it won’t call anyone
Back in my day, the answer was always a simple “call Home”
I guess you could try iTunes. Try connecting the phone to your computer via a cable and see if it gives you a prompt for the Apple ID this device is connected to. You could try writing an email to that ID.
Put your sim card in. Ask siri, “call my mom, dad, or spouse”. It may call their relatives and you get hold of them.
If find my iPhone is enabled, you can just leave it unlocked near another iPhone and it will be able to be tracked. https://www.macrumors.com/guide/find-my/ “When your lost device is offline but close to another device, it’s able to connect to that other device over Bluetooth and relay its location. That means that your devices are more trackable than ever, and there’s a better chance you can find a device that’s been lost.”
Ask siri “who’s phone is this?”
I tried this with my iPhone, and it only said this phone belongs to “first name”
Go to settings then siri then my information to change it.
just leave it being charged… hopefully the owner will put in lost mode and you will get message showing how to contact the owner.
Once I found an iPad in an airport, picked it up and called Apple to let them know I’d found it, gave them the serial number and said I’d like to return it. They said they couldn’t provide the iCloud contact, I asked them to send an email to the owner letting them know I’d like to return it, they said that wouldn’t be possible either. I would have liked to have solved it because from the case and the wallpaper it looked like it belonged to a child.
Same here, by the wallpaper I think it’s a child or teen on the Lock Screen. If it was my stuff lost I’d like to hope (know it wouldn’t but still) a Good Samaritan would try to reunite it and me. Again I know it wouldn’t happen but eternal optimist 🤣