Where would you put an iPhone to keep it safe?

[MommytoA]

Been looking for my DDs phone for the last few hours and it's no where to be found. We know it must be in the house. It's turned off, find my phone isn't locating it. We have looked in all the places we would normally put it to keep it safe ie kitchen cupboards, bedroom side tables etc. Any ideas? Where would you put something to keep it safe? This must be the safest place ever as we can't blooming find it now 🙈

Under my pillow

Secret hiding places for burner phones include behind kitchen kick boards and bath panelling, and on top of tall units/wardrobes.

Between sofa cushions? Where was it last used?

Look in the car

Kitchen cupboards? Bedside drawer?

My phone has a black case and if I put it down on top of something black such as on top of the black printer, on top of a black hoodie etc. it becomes invisible to the human eye. Could it be in plain sight on top of something of the same colour?

I love these threads. Some good suggestions (and questions).
How about:
In a shoe or walking boot (fave in our house)
In the car door pocket
Any pocket
yy to ironing pile
Inside pocket of backpack

Mine was lost like this. I KNEW it was in the house. After many hours of looking I decided to implement a 'fingertip search' .. literally starting at the front door (where I definitely remember having it. ) luckily for me it was down the back of the radiator 30 cm from the front door.

In the fridge?

How old is she? (Is it yours and she's a toddler or is it hers and she can't find it?)

Niche, but if you have a Fiat 500 it will be on the floor under the front seat. Slippy iPhones seem to be perfectly designed to slide off the back of Fiat seats through the gap between the back and the base.
Otherwise, mine is usually between sofa cushions or under a book.

This is so true! 😂

Hence the well-used phrase in our house - "did you look with your eyes?".

It partly depends on DD's age....my DD rarely loses her phone as it's always in her hand but on the rare occasion it's usually found under a cushion, wrapped up in her duvet or behind the bed and the wall. Other places...in the car (under / between the seats), car pockets, bathroom etc

I'm perimenopausal so my phone can be found in all sorts of weird and wonderful places such as the salad drawer or where the squash lives. I have a tendency of putting the wrong thing away so will put my phone in the cupboard and leave the squash on the side for example. 🙄

DH and DD failed to find a pair of purple trousers folded on a table last week! They even moved the table....

If its a lost phone, look down the sides/backs of things like bed, sofa, drawers etc.

Safe place for confiscated... work bag, car, drawers in your bedroom/office/kitchen (where ever you were when you confiscated it!)

side of bed, in the bed, under pillows, slipped between bed and headboard? Back of the sofa?

Places I have found lost things:

• in the freezer (leant in to chest freezer and it fell out of the pocket)
• down the side or back of the sofa cushions
• down the back of the mattress (snuck between the mattress and headboard and was resting upright on the tiny ledge of the divan base that was showing)
• in a bag for life on the back of a kitchen cupboard door

If it was deliberately put somewhere "safe", then under the bed, in a box on a shelf, or a little used drawer somewhere. Or could it be in the car?

I've misplaced so many things I've put somewhere "safe" I make sure to tell someone where I've put it. Weirdly, since I started telling people, I've never forgotten. There's something about saying it out loud that makes it stick in my brain!

On "Find my iphone" does it show you where it was last seen, to confirm it's definitely in the house?

Thank you all for your suggestions! Phone is still missing. I even dreamt we had found it last night 🙄

@NutOwl 🤣 this may be something I will have to do after DP states he's had a 'thorough' look.

DD will be 7 next week. This is my old iPhone plus so she uses it like you would an IPad. When her time is up using it we put it in the kitchen cupboard but we've found her with it on a few occasions in her room. DP decided to put it somewhere else and now we can't find it.

DD is adamant she hasn't got it but it wouldn't be the first time she's had us looking for something and knows where it is 🙈

I've searched the garden this morning as I thought it may have got wedged down the cushions on the garden furniture, even looked underneath it and then searched the shed. This is the last time I remember seeing her with the phone which was a couple of weeks ago now.

Looks like another evening of searching for it.

We've only properly lost a phone once. It had fallen down the gap beside the car seat and because it was black with a black cover wasn't easy to spot. We lose a lot of things in our sofa as well and a phone would fit in there.

Have you checked on top of the kitchen cupboards if there is a space between the top & the ceiling?

Just thinking my other half would get as far as the usual spot, the kitchen cupboard, then decide to find a better spot but probably not actually venture much further to do so 😂

Is Siri switched on? Can you loudly go "Okay Siri" in each room, waiting for Siri to speak up?

My ds lost his for months, we eventually found it between the mattress and the bedframe in his room at his dads. He insisted he had been through everything in that room. We think it was an attempt at getting an upgrade. Just a thought.... check down the backs of furniture and if there are younger siblings, in thir toy box

We had this with the kids that lived next door to us. We found a phone in our garden, still switched on and working (not the brightest sparks!). Knocked on next door to return it and the Mum called the son over who "hadn't got a clue how that got there".

It was a horrible old phone, so we suspected he wanted a new one and figured the best way was to "lose" the old one.

Mum was a total walkover though so probably bought him a new one anyway.

The phone has just been found by myself hidden between the pages of a book in the top drawer of the beside table!

Where apparently DP had already 'looked' yesterday. With his eyes closed it would appear 🙈

Thank you so much for all your wonderful suggestions!

Easy-peasy….

It's in the airing cupboard, five towels down.

Daughter left it on the mug shelf in the kitchen.
Dad moved it to the windowsill when he was unloading the dishwasher.

Mum put it on the newelpost so it could be taken upstairs.

Son knocked it off newelpost as he went upstairs, but caught it and chucked it on pile of folded towel on the fourth stair up.

Mum put eight more ironed towels on the pile, whilst distracted by nearly tripping over discarded Converse Sneaker on the bottom step.

Dad took pile of towels upstairs, but only as far as the landing.

Mum put pile of towels in the airing cupboard whilst yelling over her shoulder, “Would another eight steps have killed you?”

The phone will be discovered by daughter when she uses five perfectly clean towels after her shower, despite having eight used-once towels on the floor of her room.

…happens all the time.