My iPhone knows when I'm walking, when I'm biking, when I've shook it....

My iPhone knows when I'm walking, when I'm biking, when I've shook it.... But there's one event that it doesn't detect.

I want to be able to trigger an action when I set my phone down. That's got to be straightforward. It might have to pause for a second or two, but it's got to be straightforward.

And in fact, if it knows I have an Apple Watch, it can trigger it when it realizes I'm walking away from the phone.

The action that I want to associate with that event is also straightforward.

Either a customized beep, even if the phone is silenced. Or speaking a phrase. Which for me would probably be something like, "Please remember where the fuck you just put me!"

My iPhone knows when I'm walking, when I'm biking, when I've shook it.... But there's one event that it doesn't detect.

I want to be able to trigger an action when I set my phone down. That's got to be straightforward. It might have to pause for a second or two, but it's got to be straightforward.

And in fact, if it knows I have an Apple Watch, it can trigger it when it realizes I'm walking away from the phone.

The action that I want to associate with that event is also straightforward.

Either a customized beep, even if the phone is silenced. Or speaking a phrase. Which for me would probably be something like, "Please remember where the fuck you just put me!"

My iPhone knows when I'm walking, when I'm biking, when I've shook it.... But there's one event that it doesn't detect.

I want to be able to trigger an action when I set my phone down. That's got to be straightforward. It might have to pause for a second or two, but it's got to be straightforward.

And in fact, if it knows I have an Apple Watch, it can trigger it when it realizes I'm walking away from the phone.

The action that I want to associate with that event is also straightforward.

Either a customized beep, even if the phone is silenced. Or speaking a phrase. Which for me would probably be something like, "Please remember where the fuck you just put me!"

@nazgul Just in case others might benefit from this too... I love that if you tap and hold that button, it will also activate the iPhone's flashlight. https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/watch/apdd15b14f82/26/watchos/26

@nazgul You know you can make your iPhone emit a pinging noise from your watch, yes?

@mykl If I made my phone beep every time I lost it. I would be getting divorced.
I try to save that as a last resort.

@mykl Mind you, if my phone said something every time I left it somewhere, I would also probably be getting divorced. So how about it vibrates my watch instead?