How do you find a phone when lost in US?

Answer 1

That depends on the type of phone you have lost.

IF you lost a phone which is/was running an app with a locator beacon, you turn on your/a computer, open the parent app which has a program which allows your particular phone's unique signal to be followed to its location.

Unfortunately, if your phone's battery goes dead, your signal is lost and the phone remains where you lost it!

If you have any other type phone, you either cover the areas where you believe you may have lost the phone, calling the phone and listening for your unique ring tone sound.

Unfortunately, if your cell phone's battery goes dead before you find your phone, it may remain right where you lost it unless you accidentally find it by accident!

Potentially, if you are a millionaire, you could hire trained professionals to use tracking equipment to find your phone. (The tracking equipment (usually in the hands of the police) is SUPPOSED to be used to find a person who is in a life threatening situation using their unique cell phone signal to triangulate the phone's position using the closest cell towers as the base of the triangulation. It is technically illegal to use these devices to find ONLY a lost phone, but money makes many illegal things invisible!)