Can Google Assistant Find my iPhone?
They might seem like an odd pair, but you can use Google Assistant to find your iPhone. You can even have Google Assistant find your phone for you if the phone is on silent mode. It manages this by temporarily bypassing silent mode to sound the alert so you can locate the misplaced phone. To find your iPhone with Google Assistant, you need to have the Google Home app on your iPhone. The phone also needs to be connected to Wi-Fi or mobile data. If you want Google Assistant to find your phone when it’s on silent or in do not disturb mode, you need to have critical alerts enabled.
How to Find Your Phone With Google Assistant
You can find your iPhone with Google Assistant, but only if you’ve set things up ahead of time. Then all you have to do is say, “Find my iPhone,” or “Where’s my iPhone” to your Google Assistant-enabled device. Here’s how to set it up so you can find your iPhone with Google Assistant:
How Can I Find My iPhone When It’s On Silent?
Under normal circumstances, your iPhone won’t make any noise when it’s on silent. The whole point of this setting is to prevent the phone from making noise in situations where you need it to remain silent. However, if you leave your iPhone on silent and misplace it, you can end up having a lot of difficulties finding it again. To find an iPhone when it’s on silent, you need to have critical alerts enabled in your iPhone settings. You also need to have something, like Google Assistant, capable of sending on-demand critical alerts to an iPhone. When you have critical alerts enabled on your iPhone and receive one, it temporarily bypasses silent mode. So when you ask Google Assistant to find your iPhone, it’s on silent, but you have critical alerts enabled, the phone will ring for roughly 25 seconds before going silent again. If you cannot find the phone within that time, ask Google Assistant to find your iPhone again, and it will ring for another 25 seconds.
