"The problem: not everyone uses the same phone operating system. In my house, I have an iPhone and my wife has an Android. This means when I inevitably leave my phone in a hotel couch, she can't really help me find it. Sure, she could call my phone number, but I usually have my ringer off and Do Not Disturb enabled. (I'm annoying like that.)"
"No, thanks to a simple app called RingIt by Belgian developer Gaétan Van Den Berge. This application, which is free for both Android and iOS, exists to make it easier for Android users to help iPhone users find their phone, and vice-versa. Just open the app, hit a button, and the other person's phone will ring-loudly-helping them to find their phone."
""The idea for RingIt actually came to me on vacation with my girlfriend," Van Den Berge tells me. "I kept misplacing my phone, often while it was on silent, and I'd repeatedly ask her, 'Do you know where my phone is?' I remember thinking how nice it would be if she could just make my phone ring loudly from her own device, even if mine was muted.""
Phones often get misplaced and built-in device-finding features are constrained by operating-system differences and settings like silent mode or Do Not Disturb. RingIt is a free app for Android and iOS that lets one user trigger a loud ring on another user's phone across platforms by opening the app and tapping a button. The app requires email verification and explicitly avoids collecting location or other personal data, storing only emails for verification. The design focuses solely on making muted or hidden devices ring loudly to simplify finding lost phones.
Read at WIRED
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