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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!".



Apple Watch has had this "make-my-phone-beep" feature from day one and it's been excellent.


If you so happen to have a Google Home you can also now ask the Google Assistant to find your iPhone too: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/04/14/google-assistant-locate...


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.


You can ask Siri to play a sound on your wife's phone if you have your own iPhone or a Mac nearby.


Yes, that is the functionality I use now, and what I want this button to activate. Except without the other phone/mac involved in the process.


Apple Watch can do this, as long as your wife would wear the watch.


Chipolo works both ways. Double tap and your iPhone rings.


Awesome! Not released yet, unfortunately, but this is exactly the thing!

If they can do it, maybe that means that Apple intends to open up the API, which means I can do my Raspberry PI button to get things working.


It is released, I tried it last week. (currently needs their app installed, not sure if it will work without soon)


If you're talking about an iPhone, it works exactly this way. You can use "Find My..." to play a lost sound on the missing device.


If you setup a HomePod or Find My iPhone correctly, you can trigger it from that or your iPhone.


raspberry pi and some script to click through the find my iphone website for you and hit the alarm after hitting your button.


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.




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