That's not special.

My fiance loses stuff all the time so she got a Tile (a locator gadget) for her keys and wallet. It has a phone mode too in the app, and it goes off when activated, even if it's on silent. The trick is you need another phone with the app too, of course, but that's easy enough for us to deal with.

if android, just google "where is my phone" and it will tell you where your phone is and give a button to force it to ring even if silent.

That's not autism. That's getting spam calls ten to twenty times a day.

This is the main reason I have a smart watch.

I don't have autism and I still do that.

i am happy to only have autism. if you get a chance to pick, choose autism

I figured out recently that you can set individual contacts to ignore silent mode, so they always ring. This is extreme power, so be careful who you choose.

I bought an Apple Watch for exercise and the best feature I didn’t know existed is a little button that I can press to audibly ping my phone, even when it’s on silent.

…I get more use out of that than the exercise features nowadays.

Ouch. Way too close to home.

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If the screen lights up, that's still sometimes enough to find it.

Ha ha I only ever put it on silent when I'm playing music on a Bluetooth speaker so that incoming alerts don't disrupt the music.

I literally never remember to turn it off silent.

Silence, plus DnD, plus everything muted. If my phone emits a sound without my request I have an immediate response to fight the phone back.

Not officially, but I’m diagnosed ADHD and for now, self-diagnosed autistic

I managed to finally save up enough money to put myself on a waitlist to get called to setup an appointment to start my autism assessment in several months from now, so…yay?

Trifecta actually. Adhd, autism and I am also trans :3

I plan to set my spouse's number to always audibly ring. Someday it will happen and then I'll never have to search again!

Off topic: Google's "find my phone" bypasses silent mode.

This is why Find My has been a godsend for me. It'll ring no matter how many layers of Do Not Disturb you put your phone under. It'll still ring (unless the battery has run out, of course).

You can trigger the ‘find phone’ function on your Apple Watch. The phone will make a sound and your watch shows a live view of how far away the phone is and a general direction.

just autism, but darn this situation happens too many times ;-;

Yes.

The Tile app (you can use without buying anything) can turn on the ringer and set full volume. My partner and I use it to find each other's phones. There are probably other apps that do that, too.