Have you had that sick feeling? You know the one that you get when you realize you can’t find your phone?

Ugh!

After I got home from work today I played with Baxter, made a sandwich, watched a little news, and began to do some homework.  Before settling into a project, I decided to make a call.  That’s when that sick feeling hit me.  I looked all around the house and could not find my phone.

Then, I remembered the Find My iPhone APP that I had downloaded.  I opened up my Mac and went to icloud.  Sure enough, the phone showed up with a green pin on google maps.   (As you can see in the picture, the map showed my iPhone in the parking lot at work).

I hopped in the van and headed straight back to town to look all over the parking lot and the surrounding area.  I enabled the loud alert ping to help me find it.   A co-worker and his sons stopped to help me search for the phone.  We looked all over, and found “nothin”.  After a while – I gave up.

Before leaving the campus,  I decided to run back into my office – and there was my iPhone on my desk.  Thank you, Lord!

I should have read Paul Hughes’ review on CNET Download.com.  Then, I would have known that the locator gives an “approximate” location of the iphone.  I should have started my search in the office rather than at the green pin in the parking lot.

All in all –   the App is helpful.  It got me in the general area.  And, I’ll sleep well tonight knowing my phone is not lost.

Have you ever been on a search for your phone?   How did it make you feel?