How do people manage to keep track of their mobile phones

I suspect this will not help, but I wear an Apple watch, and there is a button on it which will ring my phone when pressed.

I often use it to locate my phone when I've forgotten where I put it.

I just take mine with me from one room to another. Simple.

If you have Google speakers (or whatever your phone type needs) you can set them to make and receive calls through your phone. If you lose your phone it will ring your phone so you can find it.

You’ll have to pretend you’re a celeb MOnica and make sure it’s in your hands constantly!

I wear jeans or shorts all the time, it’s in my back pocket, on the rare dress days it’s in the front of my bra.

You could get a lanyard, and hang it round your neck without a pouch, which must be what is resetting it? I keep mine in the pocket of my jeans when I’m outside in the garden, and I don’t have that problem, although mine has a plastic case on it which protects the buttons from being pressed accidentally because they don’t stick out from the phone with the case on.

M0nica, what about a wall mounted phone hanger? Have a look, they sell them on Amazon.

ViceVersa

I just take mine with me from one room to another. Simple.

It's not simple if you have ADD, or have any other reason why you are likely to forget where you put it. If it were as easy as that, the OP wouldn't have posted.

Like ViceVersa, I simply carry my phone from room to room and then put it on some handy surface (table, shelf, worktop, dressing table, edge of bath etc) while I do whatever I went in that room to do.
If you've no pockets, it can be a nuisance if you have a lot of stuff to carry when you leave the room but, if all else fails, I find stuffing it in the waistband at the back of my trousers is fine for just getting from A to B in the house and garden.

I have a Radley Smart Watch that is set up to tell me when my mobile rings or I get a text. I’m sure other smart watches must do that too. I’m not sure what the range is but I find it useful if I’m in the kitchen or upstairs and my phone is in the sitting room.

I have it in a pocket on me or if no pocket then I take it from room to room placing it om whatever table chair arm etc going out it’s again either in a pocket or handbag I m rarely away from it

A friend has had a couple of quite bad falls recently, her DIL bought her a nice little cross body bag for the phone, so she would be able to call for help if she needed to.

Like everyone else here, it's pretty much with me at all times.

Mine lives in the back pocket of jeans most of the time. If no pockets I turn it to maximum volume and leave it in the hall. I can hear it from all the rooms in our bungalow, it would be different if we lived in a large house. Life would be easier if more of my clothes had pockets.

At home Vodafone is dreadful, only 1 mile from town no data connection at all, yet 2 week ago in Italy I got 5G almost everywhere, no logic at all.

Most of my trousers have pockets, so that’s where the phone goes.

What about a small lightweight ‘bum bag’ to wear around the house with your phone in? If you lock the screen it won’t do anything without you physically pressing the buttons, so it would be fine. There are also small ‘arm bags’ which runners wear on their upper arms to keep their phones in .

Crumbs! I could never remember to carry my phone round the house with me. I have the same problem as the OP ex that I can use the landline to track it down.
I carry my reading glasses round my neck. Couldn’t cope with mobile as well.
I do have an Apple Watch but couldn’t hold a conversation on it. It does alert me to a mixed call though.

So, what you have to do to keep up with "progress" is....

- remember to carry your phone from room to room with you (unless of course your hands are full)
- have pockets on all garments so that you can keep your phone with you at all times
-buy a bum bag or cross body bag so that you have your phone with you at all times
-buy speakers that will ring your phone if you can't find it
- buy an apple watch so you can press a button to find your phone if you have misplaced it

Wouldn't it be a great idea if someone came up with a way you could have two, three, four or even five handsets dotted around so that you were never far away from a phone. Oh...wait......

ViceVersa

I just take mine with me from one room to another. Simple.

But how do you remember to do so? I move around the house quite a lot, sometimes going to a room just to put something down then move on, but essentially how do you remember ?

M0nica

ViceVersa

I just take mine with me from one room to another. Simple.

But how do you remember to do so? I move around the house quite a lot, sometimes going to a room just to put something down then move on, but essentially how do you remember ?

For me, it's just automatic. I'm sitting in the living room on my laptop at the moment, for instance. If I get up to go to the kitchen or bedroom, I automatically pick it up and take it with me. I wouldn't take it into the bathroom, but other than that, where I go, it goes too. We no longer have a landline now either, so taking our mobiles with us has just become habit, I guess. I didn't mean to be flippant with my earlier comment, it's just what I do.

Doodledog

ViceVersa

I just take mine with me from one room to another. Simple.

It's not simple if you have ADD, or have any other reason why you are likely to forget where you put it. If it were as easy as that, the OP wouldn't have posted.

I have ADHD and dyspraxia. The second of those, plus cervical spondylosis, which is the medical term for wear and tear to my upper vertebrae which affects the nerves in my fingers, account for my erratic typing and poor proof reading - and also, quite separate, problems I have actually using a mobile phone.

Another alternative might suit you M0nica. Instead of to using a little bag slung around your neck which creates the problems you have described why not have a look at phone holsters. Their design not only makes sure the phone is safe and you know where it is, it is also unlikely to cause the problems you have experienced.

Most calls aren't urgent. The caller will leave a message for later.