I left my phone in Costco a couple of days ago

You sound like a complicated person.

Knock on all the doors of the apartment complex until you find the right one.

Make your locked screensaver a pic that includes a telephone number that can be called if it's lost then found.

If it is locked, they can't find numbers to track down the owner. Another option is to place a business/personal card inside the phone case/cover.

This doesn't help OP.

gurl do a remote wipe of that phone and move on, you sound like you have BPD

Same thing happened to me. Remote delete and get a new one. The person who took it will likely try to sell it. Unfortunately. Phones have become such a critical accessory, wish there was a better way to retrieve lost ones.

Oh dear, I wish you had friends..

Do you have a friend who could beat the thieves until they vomit blood?

Say goodbye to that phone, unfortunately.

OP here, my phone is on google fi service, so I can and did leave messages even with my phone being locked. Thanks for the humor and condolences. Sometimes you guys and gals are great. This was one of them.

WHY OH WHY do people put their ENTIRE LIVES ON A FUCKING CELL PHONE?!

Seriously, NO ONE is that busy they cannot write important info down. WHY is your "medical info on my cancer treatments" on your cell, you don't have any medical info on paper?

I have a cell but I only use it as a phone, you know what phones actually used to be about?! I could give shit if people think I'm not 'cool' or whatever, I would never put banking and other vital important info on a fucking phone.

Sorry OP, I don't feel sorry for you or anyone else who tells me "my LIFE is on my phone", well my answer, DO NOT PUT YOU LIFE ON FUCKING PHONE.

I still keep paper files of important numbers, banking etc info, emails and other vital info. As as well keeping all that duplicate info on my computer and on my two external HDs.

I have my phone set up so my google voice number shows on the lock screen. You should do that, OP. Next time, that is.

I just read a sad story in the NY Times about a woman whose mother suddenly died. All the important info the women needed to access was on the late mother's phone, which was locked, the Password she had did not work.

The woman finally got some Apple tech person to unlock the phone. I cannot imagine how anyone could think keeping all their important info on a cell phone is such a great idea. These days, are people actually this lazy and stupid?

[quote] I have a cell but I only use it as a phone, you know what phones actually used to be about?!

This is for r10.

Like I posted, R13, I could give a flying shit what anyone thinks. I don't follow the rest of the sheeple.

Common sense should tell anyone, they shouldn't keep all their important info in ONE place, let alone on a phone, which they can easily lose or get robbed for.

Don't be such an imbecile, use your fucking brain. Try it sometime!

It's amazing how much anger some of us have within us. r14 really needs some kindness shown to him/her. I'm the OP, and I didn't have any information but my call directory which I didn't know Google Fi had backed up for me regularly. I never banked and only rarely purchased a few thing from Amazon, Ebay and Chewy and these were all site password protected which I changed anyway.

Got my new phone two days ago, but held off erasing my old phone which Google locked immediately when I lost it. I like my new Pixel 3a much better than the X4.

Not only do people put their lives on their phone, they pay way more than they ever should for one. And then they put said valuable phone in their jeans back pocket and stroll around a big city rife with pickpockets!

Calm down r10, jesus.

All my medical test results and insurance info is online now. OP's are surely the same way. I haven't had paper used for medical records in years, except for a prescription after surgery that had to be hand written.

R10 is a deranged lunatic