My Apple Watch Series 5 has been lost for a couple of days, it’s definitely dead and hasn’t been powered on since the “Lost Mode” is still pending. However it seems to be updating locations, I have looked high and low over and over but I still can not find it, the locations it’s updating is where I have been. Is it possible that the Watch App is doing this updating and not my Apple Watch?
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As super stressful as this is, I just wanted to share my experience, in hopes that it may help someone else. When accessing "Find My" app from my iPhone, similar to most of you, I was very confused as to why my "dead" Apple Watch seemed to always be in the same location as my iPhone; yet, it was nowhere to be found. Concerned that this iOS's feature/app could somehow be sending me incorrect information, I decided to compare, both:
Surprisingly, the data from my Mac, DID NOT correspond to the information that was obtained from my iOS Device. Upon immediate accessing the iCloud.com's "Find My" feature via my Mac, I was able to see the "LAST KNOWN LOCATION" before my Apple Watch went dead/offline. Something I was unable to do with my iOS device and after reading the previous responses I now understand why.
In conclusion, what I learned from this entire fiasco is that, once an iPhone is disabled or id dead:
1."Find My" app installed on the watch's paired device, (i.e. iPhone) will be of NO USE.
2.Determining the last known location, prior to the device being disabled, may be achieved by accessing the iCloud.com's "Find My" feature; using a device that is NOT PAIRED with the Apple Watch. At least, this was my saving grace.
3.The "PING or Playing Sound" feature located in "Find My" DID NOT work, while trying to locate my disabled apple watch. However, once the watch was REBOOTED, the feature DID work.
As mentioned previously, this is a horrible design flaw, one that I hope is fixed with the newest update. Being that we have come to expect so much more from apple, it's highly frustrating when mishaps like this occurs. Hope you guys can find this info somewhat helpful.
Wow. I'm speechless. This completely circumvents any utility FindMy may have. Why on earth wouldn't it just stick with the last know location?? If it did I might have a prayer of finding my **** watch. 😡
This is so frustrating I’ve been missing my watch for like six weeks thinking it’s somewhere in my car or my stuff. I have spent probably a total of 4 hours looking for it. After I lost it it was updating everywhere I was, so I didn’t think to look anywhere it could’ve been and now it’s been so long I don’t even know where I could’ve left it. I literally got the watch to make my life easier and help me find my phone when I misplaced. Glad I looked this up I wish I would’ve sooner I just would’ve never imagined they would have it set up like this. So annoying!
Man I wish I seen earlier today. My car was broken into 8-9 months ago and they tried to steal some stuff but failed. And I was serious that they stole my Apple Watch too, and ever since I updated my phone it kept saying the watch was in my car and it kept following me everywhere. So I just deep cleaned my car looking for it. So bright side my car is cleaned. Bad side. My watch is still stolen and there’s still broken glass in small places in my car.
Same!! My car is now clean too! Lol.. I found so many things I misplaced or forgot about EXCEPT my stupid watch! I did think it was weird that it located it at my local Target all of a sudden after a month of being missing… I’m thinking the store charged it up or something, the whole time Iphone just has a flawed locating feature… smh
This post could have saved my relationship lmao. My bf broke up with Bc I turned into a mad person looking for this watch lmao. Stupid flaw. I knocked on neighbor doors put signs on cars and literally flipped my car upside down. I feel so stupid now. I don’t even want it back lol. I hope who ever has is does great in life smh.
Ditto on this entire post! Horribly confusing "non-feature" I am also a member of the lost apple watch clean car club! I am posting because I desperately hope Apple fixes this bug before I misplace my next apple watch. This experience is kinda making me not want to replace the apple watch.
This is interesting. I was 100% sure the person who has the watch lived near by and just kept walking past our house and the watch connecting to my daughters phone 😂 also pairing with her phone outside the school gates. Been on the phone to the school asking them to check pupils bags too!! So much time has been wasted walking around and knocking on doors where it had flagged as being. When I spoke with Apple support they didn’t tell me this information. How frusturating!
Hello
Are you saying that the Apple Watch locations are updating to where the phone is and not the watch ?
is it possible for someone to have the watch and it connects when they walk by our house/when we pass their house for eg. Providing the phone is with us?
Our watch is in lost mode and still says pending but we also have updates or location changing to where we are. This doesn’t happen everywhere we go.
Thanks
Oh man I am so upset with Apple right now. I lost my watch four days ago at my neighbor's house and it showed the last known location updated two hours after I left. I had them search the entire house for my watch and then BOOM it shows up as being at my house! It was around 8:00pm the next evening and I tore everything out of every room I was in for the past days. Ripped out entire closets and it still keeps "updating" its location at random times over the next two days. I still kept at it because I thought it was really checking in! Even when pinging it was say "pending" then act like it was pinging it. Really Apple?
I have an apple phone and watch 4series and my watch is missing. When I use the "find my watch app" it finds it as coming up at work. However, I swear its somewhere in my house, not work. When I first pinged it yesterday I was no where near work, yet it's saying my watch is there. My phone was dead when I misplaced it.
Thanks for having "Find my" not work for my Series 7 45mm - its LONG gone because this feature didn't work properly. I can, without a doubt, guarantee I was within range with my phone but it still failed to ping or find it. Now its five days and the battery on the watch is long gone. I'm sure it was somewhere in their back yard but they have almost 3/4 acre of black mulch and I'm certain it was out there based off my steps and last heart rate that it reported back.
I just tested "Find My" with my wife's Apple watch and the sound doesn't play on hers either! It doesn't even light up the screen when she tries to ping it! Has anybody opened a case with Apple on this? I'm going full-out on this and seeing if they will replace my watch. Their product is defective in that the Find My app had me looking in all the wrong places for days. Now its gone and it could have been EASILY found if the ping function worked. Anybody else have a functioning watch-- try to remove it and place on a table. Use your Find My app and see if it actually finds or pings it!
My watch has been lost over a week ago BUT IT UPDATED yesterday in an area where I haven’t been. Does that mean whoever stole it charged it and turned it on and that’s why I got a notification of that location? After that it’s been saying it’s here with me, and like others here in the forum, I’ve been assuming it’s one of my apt neighbors that took it 😭 Which could still be a possibility in my case. 🤦♀️ 😢
I forgot to mention that the day it said it was in “X” location (which I never go on that side of the city) I had received a notification that it had been found and that the sound had been played. Then the next day it said it was back where I live. I guess it’s confusing. :/
Also to freaking note! On iCloud when it goes offline it only keeps its last location up for 24 HOURS!!! How does this help anyone find they’re missing watch?!? I have been tearing my car, house, every bag! I’m now 100% sure I someone lost it in Tennessee during a trip🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ So thanks Apple for nothing can’t confirm if it’s there bc I’ve been looking with me bc of the find my app.
Lost/stolen Apple Watch dead but still showing location
