Find My Phone feature doesn't work (fw19.18)

Thom@s 6 months ago

Does the "Find My Phone feature - During an activity, use GPS to navigate to the point where a phone lost connection." work for you?

I've tried turning off phone BT during activity and nothing happened.

0 Thom@s 6 months ago

Tested on 955 Android (Running) - does not work.
965 IOS (Running) - not working.

0 Julian 6 months ago

Maybe clever enough to detect that the connection loss is due to BT off?

0 Thom@s 6 months ago in reply to Julian

It has been tried both moving about 200m away from the phone, turning off BT and restarting the phone. Nothing worked.

0 fxl.briere 6 months ago

Same here. Checked several posts and options but could not get it to work (and does not know how it looks like).

0 Thom@s 6 months ago in reply to fxl.briere

In the evening, I finally got it to work by turning off BT (I ran there and on the same route back turned it off), but the location of the cell phone loss differed from reality by over 1km! So not great. I couldn't actually find the lost mobile that way.

0 fxl.briere 5 months ago

Also managed to get it work during a base run by disabling the bluetooth on my phone.

This may not be the best way to test but it was very quickly detected and showed a precise spot on the map.

0 zabaki 5 months ago

Is it the same "find my phone" feature in the control panel, or is there some other path to test the new feature?

0 fxl.briere 5 months ago

This is briefly described in video Garmin Q2 2024 Software Update! youtu.be/9XbKQIR7dlY

0 mjuniper 5 months ago

Based on my testing, I suspect that the lost phone notifications don't activate until you have gone some minimum distance.

See: forums.garmin.com/.../1797165