iOS "parked car location"

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Of COURSE that’s correct. Mindless error on my part.

Actually, probably the best solution IS keeping an AirTag in the car itself; I can’t imagine why I didn’t think of that. However, I’m uncertain why “two is better than one” applies here.

And, there are some other small things I should “tag” as well; For example, I’ve not been able to find the heart rate monitor I took off my forearm after a bike ride a week or so ago. I KNOW it’s somewhere in my house; USUALLY, if I can reconstruct what I did immediately after putting something aside I can find it again, but as I get older I find that often that only works in reverse order; i.e., once the AirTag tells me WHERE something is I can remember how it got there :face_exhaling:

I still think, however, that the “Parked Car” bit in Apple Maps could be coded better so that it remembers WHICH car I’m talking about, and if that were the case I wouldn’t have to spend $25 for an AirTag to get a correct pointer (or $50 if there really IS something to the “two is better than one” philosophy.

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Not intending to beat a dead horse here, but the limitations of what should be more fully realized tech reared their head again yesterday. My spouse called me from relatively compact downtown Bozeman to tell me that new shoes and senior citizen status combined to make her unable to find our car and inflicted blisters on her feet. I told her that the discussion here meant I was unlikely to be able to help her, because SHE was the last person to whom the car had bonded in Apple Maps, but I pulled out my iPhone to verify that. Apple maps precisely located “my” car (probably my sedan sitting in my garage 10 feet away rather than her SUV near one of downtown Bozeman’s touristy shops) as actually parked in Copenhagen (where I’ve never been, on another CONTINENT).

Seems this bit of iOS needs some work.