hey Siri barely works. Allegedly when the iPhone shuts itself off because of low battery, it’s still findable but really it’s not. Couldn’t find it, went to find my to ping it but it didn’t work. I found it, plugged it on and lo and behold I got the find me ping.
ChristopherMC1 wrote:
hey Siri barely works. Allegedly when the iPhone shuts itself off because of low battery, it’s still findable but really it’s not. Couldn’t find it, went to find my to ping it but it didn’t work. I found it, plugged it on and lo and behold I got the find me ping.
How would you expect a phone which has shut down due to the battery running out to make a sound? What you shouldn't be doing it let the battery deplete at all. When you permit a Lion Battery fully deplete, you are aging the battery faster. Apple recommends never letting the battery go befow 20%.
Allegedly when the iPhone shuts itself off because of low battery, it’s still findable but really it’s not.
Where are you seeing this information in an Apple Support document? Could you provide a link to the document?
Yes, the phone is still findable if it has been powered off, but this assumes that the battery still has some charge remaining. Can you think of any electronic device that will still operate when the battery has run down to nothing?
You would need to have “Send Last Location” turned “on” in Settings -> FindMy …
… AND your phone would need to have an active connection to the internet at the point when it’s battery dropped below “Critical Low” …
… AND you’d have to look in FindMy within a relatively short timeframe.
An iPhone that has nut run completely out of battery power is potentially findable via Find My Network with the power off. However, that requires another Apple device to come very close to the lost phone.
Also, I do not believe you can expect a powered-off phone to play a sound.
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