Feature Request: find my phone

[erkutoyus]

I often wander around the house to find my phone, especially when I’m about to leave. I usually use my Apple Watch to ring the phone. Since the new Pebble app came out, I’ve been using my trusty old Pebble 2. But I’m missing the ‘Find my phone’ feature. I know there are a bunch of ‘Find my phone’ apps in the Pebble mobile store, but they all require an extra companion app on the phone to actually ring the phone. I wonder why they didn’t just add this function straight into the Pebble mobile app so we wouldn’t need an extra app to ring the phone. I tried to search online to see if anyone else had mentioned this, but I couldn’t find anything. I hope you guys like the idea and add it in future releases. Thanks a bunch!

[saltedlolly]

Yes, this is an incredibly useful feature that I used all the time on my Apple watch. A built in feature to ring the phone would be so useful.

[asyba]

@erkutoyus did you find "companion app" that do this for iOS? or only Android?.

@saltedlolly for iOS is not possible apple is very restrictive, you cannot make an app to start playing sound or something if the iphone is locked and the app is not open.

I think the only thing that can be done is to trigger a notification, so for example pebble you click a button and makes the core app to send a notification itself.
and if you have your phone not silence and with volume you could here it.

[asyba]

A developer is trying to working on a app check here.

https://apps.rebble.io/en_US/application/695da4c3fbfdde0009f99799

https://discord.com/channels/221364737269694464/1458253070289862676

[erkutoyus]

You guys are amazing, thank you!

However, it seems like doesn't ring my iphone. My settings are ios 26.2 with background app refresh is enabled, phone is not on silent, notifications for pebble app all enabled. Pebble app 1.0.6.9 (Dec 26th) maybe pebble app needs to be updated as well. But there is no new update on appstore