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TigressDem

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4. As someone who has tracked phones down within a large building for tech support....
Mon Dec 5, 2022, 12:48 PM
Dec 2022

those folks should have brought the guy with his app in closer proximity to pin point it. Even then, it's possible to be close but not exactly there.

I'd have the location for the lost phone and the phone location of the person looking for it. We played the game of "hot-cold" until we found it.

My husband and I have location sharing on Google Maps. I parked the car when I dropped him off at a doctor's appointment and used it to get to the place where he was, but I knew the floor and department I was looking for. Even when I turned it on "WALK" mode, it did not know where the sky ways were so it was trying to direct me to the street. I just kept walking toward the dot.

He was already in with the doctor. I waited a bit then used the bathroom. I came out and sat down against the wall. I was looking down at my phone for a bit, then looked up and he was sitting in the row in front of me and about 5 feet away. He checked my location dot on the phone and turned to see me. Oh, there you are.

It's an inexact feature. If one of us gets stranded, the other should be able to find us and the car, but it will require more than just the app.

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