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How to find your Apple Watch when you've misplaced it

How I ended up being a sonar bear

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I just misplaced my Apple Watch in my apartment. Walking around looking for it, and getting frustrated, I was thinking, “There ought to be a way to make it make some sound, then I can play Marco Polo with the watch”. But my Google-fu failed me: no obvious way to “ping my watch”. There’s functionality for pinging the phone from the watch though.

But there’s a way to make some noise: testing out the alert volume in the companion app on the phone.

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