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The phones are trackable via gps
by photonbeam 3y ago
The phones are trackable via gps
- Tempest1981 3y agoBoeing needs "Find My Door"
- jkestner 3y agoThey should make the whole plane out of AirTags
- adrianmonk 3y agoGood thing ships aren't losing doors. As far as I know, Apple doesn't offer SeaTags.
- resolutebat 3y agoWell, at least it was the side that fell off, not the front. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM
- stephenr 3y agoI don't think it fell outside the environment either.
- atkbrah 3y agoWell at least one did in the 90s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_MS_Estonia#Official_investigation_and_report https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_MS_Estonia#Offi...
- grotorea 3y agoShips do lose containers regularly though. New market opportunity!
- photonbeam 3y agoHow do you misplace a container?
- grotorea 3y agoThey lose them to sea weather. It's a thing: https://www.npr.org/2021/04/01/983017153/cargo-overboard-intense-rolling-the-risks-of-fully-loaded-mega-container-ships https://www.npr.org/2021/04/01/983017153/cargo-overboard-int...
- martin-adams 3y agoAnd the sucked out phones can do the reporting
- bmitc 3y agoAnd the Air Force needs "Find My F-35". Lol.
- dredmorbius 3y agoApparently not a factor in this case, though true.
- taylortbb 3y agoThe post says the phone was in airplane mode, and was found by chance as someone walked past it.
- bombcar 3y agoTechnically it had been in airplane mode, but now it was in sideoftheroad mode.
- kijin 3y agoMaybe a phone could automatically disable airplane mode if it detects a sudden loss of altitude?
- grotorea 3y agoAutomatically switches to last words recorder mode.
- bombcar 3y agoReminds me of the skydiver who dropped his camera and you can watch it spin and eventually land in a pigpond where a pig investigates it. It’s on YouTube.
- hypothesis 3y agohttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QrxPuk0JefA https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QrxPuk0JefA, if anything else is curious. Have to admit, amazing plot and production, all in a minute!
- Arrath 3y agoI love that video
- klausa 3y agoFind My works in airplane mode.
- oldgradstudent 3y agoNot in airplane mode, though.
- gnicholas 3y agoI actually wondered about this. My iPhone can be located even when turned off, so long as I haven't deactivated that functionality at shutdown (has to be done each time). Is an iPhone in airplane mode really less trackable than an iPhone that is turned off?
- kaba0 3y agoFind My is bluetooth-based, which is fine to use on airplanes as well.
- gnicholas 3y agoI feel like the BT behavior varies when I activate airplane mode. If I am currently connected to my BT headphones, they stay connected. If I am not, then activating airplane mode appears to turn off BT (pulling out my headphones and trying to connect doesn't work). But I would be surprised if the Find My functionality didn't work in airplane mode, given how Apple set it up to work even when turned off (you must manually set it not to be active, and you must put in your passcode each time).
- acchow 3y agoI imagine airplane mode turns off regular Bluetooth, but Bluetooth Low Energy meant for “Find My” is still allowed. The same behavior as turning off the phone.
- astrange 3y agoI think airplane mode has memory and just switches to the last settings you had in airplane mode. My WiFi and BT stay turned on.
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- ars 3y agoThe phone was in airplane mode, so not actually trackable.
- xcv123 3y agoAirplane mode allows bluetooth, so it is trackable through Find My.
- Beldin 3y agoI was rather surprised at this comment. A quick google later it seems that airplane mode turns off all radio communication (as I suspected), but apparently it is possible to turn Bluetooth or WiFi on while remaining in airplane mode. At least for some phones. Honestly did not consider that.
- teamspirit 3y agoI do this as soon as I’m home. Now both Android and iOS automatically keep bluetooth and wifi on when turning on airplane mode, provided the user does it the first time. I do it because cell reception is quite poor at my house so calls are better off staying on wifi - also battery life is improved.
- ghaff 3y agoI fly regularly with an iPhone and use United’s WiFi entertainment on a regular basis. Also I often switch on airplane mode when I don’t want an international plan to activate and use WiFi all the time.
- rsynnott 3y agoAirplane mode on iOS does _not_ by default turn off wifi and bluetooth, just the cellular radio. At least in Europe; it's possible that this is driven by regional regulations. Though I think pretty much everywhere allows use of the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands in the air now.
- jeffbee 3y agoThe reason being that "airplane mode" is there to save the terrestrial mobile network. It has nothing to do with the airplane, and there's no reason to turn off wifi or bluetooth on an airplane.