It is quite often for many of us to leave our phones somewhere and then to forget about it.If you had left your phone outside, ie either in a coffee shop or in any other public place, the only way to find out your iPhone is by using Find My iPhone. But what if you left your phone somewhere in your house and forgot where? You may try searching your house twice or thrice. If your phone is somewhere in your house but out of sight and untraceable, how long are you going to search for it. Marco Polo is an excellent iOS app worth $0.99 which can help you in such situations. This app helps you to find your iPhone by shouting marco out loud. This app then replies with a polo. You can easily follow the polo sound to find your phone. This iOS app doesn't need an internet connection or any network connection to work.
Another important thing to know about this app is that this app should run in the background so that it can always listen for you shouting Marco at it and because of the restrictions from iOS platform, this app will add a red bar at the top of your screen to indicate that it is running. This will reduce your battery.
After installing this app, open the app and grant it permission to use the phone mic. When the permission is granted the app starts listening for your marco call. When you minimize the app and return to your home screen, the red bar can be seen on top of your screen. If you ever want to turn off this app, then switch off the listening slider on the app home screen.
You can select the sound which shout back polo at you by tapping the more button on the top left. This opens a side drawer where you can select your desired voice. Moreover you can adjust the volume of the voice here as well as enable/disable push notifications too. If you keeps your iPhone on silent mode, then the Volume Boost option can be useful to you. It turns the volume up full when answering your call even if your phone is on vibrate so that you can hear it.
But you cant expect a reply from your iPhone by shouting marco from one corner of your house if you had left your phone in another corner of your house. It will be pretty easy to find your phone by shouting marco while moving around your house. Moreover you have to shout marco a little bit louder for the app to hear.
Download Marco Polo From The App Store
Another important thing to know about this app is that this app should run in the background so that it can always listen for you shouting Marco at it and because of the restrictions from iOS platform, this app will add a red bar at the top of your screen to indicate that it is running. This will reduce your battery.
You can select the sound which shout back polo at you by tapping the more button on the top left. This opens a side drawer where you can select your desired voice. Moreover you can adjust the volume of the voice here as well as enable/disable push notifications too. If you keeps your iPhone on silent mode, then the Volume Boost option can be useful to you. It turns the volume up full when answering your call even if your phone is on vibrate so that you can hear it.
But you cant expect a reply from your iPhone by shouting marco from one corner of your house if you had left your phone in another corner of your house. It will be pretty easy to find your phone by shouting marco while moving around your house. Moreover you have to shout marco a little bit louder for the app to hear.
Download Marco Polo From The App Store
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