Looked for it several times on the path with no luck. Then I remembered my old iPhone was in the backpack. Did a Find my phone on the backup phone and it showed exactly where it had lost touch with the primary phone. This is all without cell or Wi-Fi service. Saved me a $1000.
Best to put your phone in DND, if you need directions have them in voice only.
I thought it looked fun, but no way to justify the price.
The cheapest Garmin watch is about 4x the price.
£40 is very reasonable :D
Were you able to access it right there without signal, or did you need to move to an area with coverage for it to sync?
Also, modern iPhones use tower-assisted GNSS (GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS, BeiDou, and NavIC) so the satellite isn't necessarily Navistar. With fewer or no towers, and positioned in an odd orientation on the ground, a good fix becomes much less likely, and the range can increase from <1m to 10's-100's of m.
Sure, how else would it work? But people usually don’t disassemble their phone before losing it on a train/in a taxi etc.
> modern iPhones use tower-assisted GNSS
Yes, but GP says they didn’t have cell coverage where they lost it, so that wouldn’t help.
Even if they hadn't had the local map, they can still get some useful signals from Find My (and they can still push Ring requests). However, in their case, their old phone still had the log of the last seen location. Again, no Internet required.