Posted 4 days ago

iPhone assistance for neighbour

Morning all, I'm an android man and have zero experience of iPhone or Apple, however got a elderly neighbour with mild dementia who's just got an iPhone, I appear to be his 'goto' guy for anything technical now as his family live away.

He drives to hospital regularly and finds it difficult to find his car in the car park, he is utterly convinced someone has told him there is an app/facility on iphone to speak to his phone when he parks his car then later speak to his phone to guide him back to his cars location.

I trawled and found he can drop pins on maps, but its not what he wants, he's adamant he can speak to his phone maybe Siri ?..

TIA.

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7th May

You can ask Siri to ‘find my car’ but I think that’ll only work when you’ve used Apple Maps to navigate and then when it disconnects from the car Bluetooth it’ll put it as the parked car location
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7th May
That's interesting, he has bluetooth in the car, I bet this is what he's seen.
7th May
Google Maps has a feature to save your parking location. But I have never encountered such a feature you can set with Siri. Best I can think of for that would be to leave an AirTag in the car and then navigate back to that location?
Author
7th May
Thats interesting, wonder if it has a voice activated function, he's pretty convinced.
7th May
I've got a Mio dashcam and it saves parking location.
23 h, 59 m ago
Another potential solution, but it depends on the age of his car, could be a phone app that links to his car. I have the phone app for my car that (among other things) lets me know where my car is.
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2 h, 12 m ago
It's a brand new Kia he has, which app is it ?
7th May
Harsh as it may seem, but really should he still be driving?
Author
7th May
He's fine, he;s just had his 70th and had his license reviewed and renewed for three years.