How do people manage to keep track of their mobile phones

I only have a small house and my living space is open plan so it is always within reach.

I don't worry about missing calls though as I pick it up often just to a quick puzzle or check messages.

However, I rarely take it upstairs except at bedtime and don't panic if I hear it ring- there will be a record of who rang and if it is a unknown number I know its a cold call.

I don't see what the problem is really. Why do people feel the need to constantly have their phone on their person?

When I go out I pop it in my handbag like I would my glasses.
If I leave it behind it might annoy me but again, I know any messages and calls I missed can be recovered.

Having read this thread, I’m just looking at a lanyard. I keep my phone in my pocket or next to me on the seat. I like the idea of a lanyard for when I haven’t a pocket.

Ha! Forgot to say I do virtually all my shopping online these days, on my phone 😁

My mobile phone is by me all the time, for a variety of reasons.

We no longer have a landline phone.

I use it as an alarm clock.

I check the weather forecast on it before I get up.

We both have very elderly parents, who have recently moved into separate care homes, and there have been a lot of settling in issues to address.

I have minded children whose parents I need to be available for.

I do all our banking and pay our bills, and do my Dad's banking and pay his bills, on my phone.

We have our own family, most of whom live away, some are shift workers, but we keep in touch, and share photos, by WhatsApp, usually daily.

I listen to the radio through my phone.

I keep up with the chat on Gransnet on my phone 🙂

So, I just automatically take it round the house as I go from upstairs to downstairs 🤷🏼

Keep it somewhere visible and turn it up to LOUD!!

SueDonim

I find some of these posts utterly bizarre. I will not be made a slave to a little device It makes me feel like a dog on a lead. You posters who take it everywhere, do you really want to have a conversation with anyone whilst you are sitting on the loo? Just asking! dont need a umbilicalcord and so on.

Mobile phones are tools. You can do what you want with them. Answer a call or not (and maybe sitting on the loo is the only quiet time you have to make a call!). Look at social media (which we all are on GN) or not. Read adverts or ignore them. Read a book on your phone or not. Use sat nav to guide you to places or use a road atlas. I really don’t understand why people get so het up about what other people do, unless it impinges negatively on your life.

But still doesn't answer my question as to how to remember to carry the damn thing with me all the time.

I quite agree a mobile phone is a tool. But who carries a screwdriver everywhere or would remember to do so if they had to?

I find some of these posts utterly bizarre. “I will not be made a slave to a little device It makes me feel like a dog on a lead. You posters who take it everywhere, do you really want to have a conversation with anyone whilst you are sitting on the loo? Just asking! don't need a umbilical cord” and so on

Nothing new here Suedonim - Gransnet’s USP seems too often to be being judgemental

Agreed, SueDonim. I don’t understand the need to judge others for just doing things differently from oneself. Do people really think there is only one way to live?

I find some of these posts utterly bizarre. I will not be made a slave to a little device It makes me feel like a dog on a lead. You posters who take it everywhere, do you really want to have a conversation with anyone whilst you are sitting on the loo? Just asking! dont need a umbilicalcord and so on.

Mobile phones are tools. You can do what you want with them. Answer a call or not (and maybe sitting on the loo is the only quiet time you have to make a call!). Look at social media (which we all are on GN) or not. Read adverts or ignore them. Read a book on your phone or not. Use sat nav to guide you to places or use a road atlas. I really don’t understand why people get so het up about what other people do, unless it impinges negatively on your life.

I have a poor memory - always have. We have a purpose built little shelf by the front door for my phone and charging base. Anything I need to take with me when I leave the house is put visible ( not concealed in packaging) by the door - and if needed on the door mat so I ( or household members) cannot leave without at least moving the item out of the way. DH carries his phone ( in a holster) when awake on his belt.
The times I forget my phone are when it’s on charge elsewhere such as in the car or upstairs -(I don’t usually take mine to bed as DH does) I have not solved that one!

I don’t carry my phone around with me all the time whilst at home . I have an Apple Watch which rings when my phone rings . So I can talk on that if I’m upstairs and my phones downstairs. In fact that’s better for me as my phones often on silent . I have it on silent at night and forget to switch it over.

I forgot to say my phone has a case that covers the front ( opening like a book) so the key pad is is protected.

I will not be made a slave to a little device so I dont carry a phone around with me. There are several landline handsets dotted around my house and they have to suffice. If someone rings the smartphone and misses me I can email or text them.

I don’t think you need to carry it at all times though.
Have it nearby- ish, ie upstairs somewhere if you are spending any time there, nearby in the kitchen, again if you are there for more than a couple of minutes or in your sitting room or garden. Unless your house is massive, the hall table should be reasonably central so it could sit there. Turn the ringtone volume up if you think you might miss it (but remember to turn it down or off if you are at a friends house or eg in a cinema.)
I don’t see the problem!
And the bottom line is, callers can leave you a voicemail if you don’t hear them if it is important.

ViceVersa

Check out the Dora ones, as I suggested earlier in the thread.

I have looked at them a number of times over the years. I do not want a phone with reduced functionality. .

However my main need as exressedin my OP is how people remember to carry their phone with them all the time. It makes me feel like a dog on a lead.

Check out the Dora ones, as I suggested earlier in the thread.

V3ra

^I think the real problem is that mobile phones with their tiny touch screens and tiny electronic touch keyboards require me to do things I have great difficulty doing, numb fingertips and most of all my dyspraxia, which means I am truly cackhanded, do not fit well with mobile phones.^

M0nica have you tried using a foam-tipped stylus to tap the keys with?
I don't have your physical problems, but I often find I miss the appropriate key with my finger tips.

I di think of that, but I need a phone with SatNav, and I do use the internet as well on occasions. I do really want a fully functional smartphone, but easier to operate - and I need to remember to have it with me!

Oh, I see.

I find it easier than using fingers and find typing with fingers can cause numbness in fact.

Allira

Styluses are useful, I find.

I cannot hold a stylus between my fingertips because of the numbness.

dalrymple it’s not obligatory to answer it!

I HATE smartphones. I can't operate the blasted things. Total brain fog. Also mine (Motorola) is incredibly heavy. Arthritis in wrists makes carrying the wretched thing around even worse and unlikely to happen. So it is downstairs and I am up.

I go to bed and then fret that there might be a fire and I have no means to contact anyone. No, I do not remember to take the blasted thing with me. Anyway, reception is so atrocious, it is not worth it.

You posters who take it everywhere, do you really want to have a conversation with anyone whilst you are sitting on the loo? Just asking!

I've no smart phone, a dumb phone resides in the kitchen on an island, the other dumb phone is at my husband's office desk. The dumb phone takes messages, I can easily see the light blink. I call on a land line.

I only use a phone if I leave our property, no reception inside.

How about a nice pinny with a pocket in the front, like my mum used to wear😬

Styluses are useful, I find.

V3ra

^I think the real problem is that mobile phones with their tiny touch screens and tiny electronic touch keyboards require me to do things I have great difficulty doing, numb fingertips and most of all my dyspraxia, which means I am truly cackhanded, do not fit well with mobile phones.^

M0nica have you tried using a foam-tipped stylus to tap the keys with?
I don't have your physical problems, but I often find I miss the appropriate key with my finger tips.

The foam tipped styluses (styli) are good but they do tend to hit the wrong letters quite often.