Hey friends. Any advice on this question I closed for clarification. I chose opinion based, but is also seemed to be asking why Apple and other vendors do something so it’s also broad and of made about Apple, seems off topic due to why Apple does x reasons.

Thanks for any help confirming or reopening this after an edit

Consider raising an issue at meta.stackexchange.com .

I have found that "notify me when found" is not a sticky setting in Find My / iCloud, for me. I'd like to ask if others have found it to not be a sticky setting too. Acceptable?

"Let’s bring an extra dose of patience..." LOL.

I use a mix of devices, some running older OSes, sometimes of necessity, so I DO NOT KNOW if this is something "apple is doing" or is happening because there's a bug specific to me , perhaps having to do with the mix of OSes I'm running, or something that widely experienced.

PS: Spevacus, this is the chat I was asking about; the other one is NOT.

He wrote, "I’ll ping people on chat in case I’m missing something." and that is the chat I asked to join. That's all on the record. What part of that do you not understand? Why are you insisting on making me wrong?

@MatthewElvey You are not wrong, and bringing the topic to chat will increase the number of people who can help in getting the question reopened. This usually takes a few hours though, AD users are sitting all over the globe.

Having said that: I made a rather heavy edit to the question to focus it on the actual technical issue you are facing.

Today I am Kieren McCarthy. I see it. What’s left of it. At least there’s a small chance what’s left I’ll attract a useful response.

I don’t understand why I can’t get an answer to:”I'd like to ask if others have found it to not be a sticky setting too. Acceptable?”

@MatthewElvey The main goal is to find actionable, fact-based and helpful answers which solve an actual problem. Based on experience, "Am I alone with this problem?" doesn't really support that because the only possible answers are "yes" or "no", neither of which solve the problem (and with at least one who is wrong).

That's why questions should actually ask for actionable answers. If it is a common problem, people will comment (or even answer) accordingly anyway

I spend more time doing IT than development, and in IT, figuring out if a problem is reproducible is the #1 go-to method for resolving an actual problem, hoping to zero in on it in a binary search kind of way. In development, trying to reproduce problems is far from the #1 go-to method for fixing bugs. AD is an IT area, and so I think questions that set to determine if problems are reproducible generally are and SHOULD be considered actionable, fact-based and helpful. IMO.

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"If you have a question about a practical problem you are trying to solve as a user of [...] then you're in the right place to ask your question!"

Figuring out whether others have the same problem is something Apple needs to do if they want to figure out whether they want to support you specifically or whether there is a broader issue

It doesn't help to solve your specific problem if you just know whether you are alone in this or not.

False.

My gut feeling (especially if this occurs on all your devices) is that you should take it up with Apple anyway, but let's see what kind of answers you'll get.

Just to clarify, this is patently false: It doesn't help to solve your specific problem if you just know whether you are alone in this or not.

You're claiming that is generally true; what happens with my issue is irrelevant to that claim.

Actually, I was interpreting your comment differently from the way you intended it, but reasonably. I take that back.

You would agree this right?: In general, knowing whether I'm the only one with a problem or not may well help solve it.

(So by "I take that back" I mean ignore the first 3 messages of mine in this string of messages from me)

So your gut feeling is that the problem is not widespread?

@MatthewElvey I would agree. It just doesn't make for a good question on this site. And an answer explaining what you can do to solve the problem has more value for future visitors with the same issue than if they just know that they ain't alone with the issue.

@MatthewElvey I honestly don't know. It seems to be sticky for me, but maybe that's the exception :-)

@klanomath Thanks, I missed the Internet Recovery Mode. :) So I deleted the answer.

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