1 – Write your contact information, as much or as little as you want to make public, on a small strip of paper. Here is a suggestion for everyone, that works on all devices. I find the debate about how to put your contact information into a phone electronically, and how to limit that information to exactly what you want to share, to be a bit funny. I hope the owner thinks to go there and ask if anyone turned it in. I couldn’t charge the phone I found as I don’t have an apple phone charger, so I just gave the phone to the cop at my local neighborhood police station. This good samaritan tip is not found in the super huge Siri commands list available from Siri itself, but was discovered on Twitter by Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter too if you haven’t done so already. Some users also use an identifier message as their locked screen wallpaper, which is a great lower-tech tip too, but not practical for everyone. This Siri trick also assumes the found iPhone has not been placed into Lost Mode, which typically shows a message and a users contact information if it was used properly. If for some reason this trick doesn’t work to find the iPhone owner, maybe the iPhone doesn’t have Siri enabled for the lock screen, or the battery is toast, you can always try and take a found iPhone to an Apple Store as well – I don’t think it’s an official policy, but I’ve heard a good number of reports of handing lost iPhones over to the Apple Store and having them contacting the owner to help get the device returned.

“Whose phone is this” and “Who owns this iPhone” works to immediately show the contact card and contact information, but, quite strangely, “Whose iPhone is this” will not work, and instead tries to direct you to, a bit weird and seemingly an oversight that is probably due to be fixed. Using that exact language is important or it won’t work.

Siri is a good citizen, and you should be too!

You’ll see a list of the iPhone owners name, what they go by, their phone numbers, email address, and address, providing you with more than enough information to be able to help identify the rightful owner and help to return the device to them as soon as possible. (Yes, Siri hears “whose” and writes out “who’s”, that’s Siri, not me!) Summon Siri by holding the Home button and ask exactly: “Whose phone is this?” or you can ask “Who owns this iPhone?” But you do have to phrase the question carefully. When you find someones lost iPhone, if it’s a fairly new model, you can almost always find the owner and the owners contact information simply by asking Siri.

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