What I need is the inverse of this -- my wife is forever losing her phone around the house, and I need a button on the wall that you can press to activate "find my phone" mode and play a beep on it.
EDIT: Thank you for all the suggestions!
I'm aware that this is possible from another iPhone or iWatch or iPad -- this is the current workflow. Use my phone or take the ipad away from the kids to play the beep. Is a button on the wall too much to ask for?
I've actually experimented with the iCloud API to try to get this functionality to work, but it's not a supported API so I run into the uncrossable chasm of "put your password in this python file and voila!".
A Tile in fact does that. The Tile has a button. Press and hold it, and the device that's tied to the tile will beep. You could mount it on the wall, if you wanted to.
I will pay you cash money for this functionality, if you can get it to use a delegatable OAuth2 token instead of requiring my iCloud password. I've looked into this, and because this particular use case is not supported in the iCloud public API, all that remain are horrifying hacks.
EDIT: Thank you for all the suggestions!
I'm aware that this is possible from another iPhone or iWatch or iPad -- this is the current workflow. Use my phone or take the ipad away from the kids to play the beep. Is a button on the wall too much to ask for?
I've actually experimented with the iCloud API to try to get this functionality to work, but it's not a supported API so I run into the uncrossable chasm of "put your password in this python file and voila!".