Geoshwin
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You didn't mention it in your post, but I'm assuming you are using the official Geocaching-R app? It would be helpful in forum posts to mention which app when saying "my phone app".
Anyway, I'm not sure if iPhone works the same way, but here is an option that works in the Android app:
Search -> GC Code -> enter code for Disabled cacheThis will bring up the cache listing, with no indication that it's actually disabled, and you can then Navigate to it and open it up in the Map view.I'm not sure if this is intended app behavior, but might be a functional workaround until the app is updated to accommodate the display of Disabled caches - if that ever happens.
Currently when I search for the disabled cache, the new app says the coords are invalid (because they're not active). Grrr!
That happens when you enter the GC Code? When I enter "GC47QXR" into the GC Code search box, then it will pull up your 'Climb Aboard...' cache on my Android. Maybe the iPhone and Android apps function differently.
Hmmm ... that produced "no results found." But the Pocket Query suggestion worked. Thanks!
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As a Premium Member you can make a PQ and select "That I own" as the criteria. This will return all of your caches (disabled or active) as long as they are not archived.
Ooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh! Thanks!
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You didn't mention it in your post, but I'm assuming you are using the official Geocaching-R app? It would be helpful in forum posts to mention which app when saying "my phone app".
Anyway, I'm not sure if iPhone works the same way, but here is an option that works in the Android app:
Search -> GC Code -> enter code for Disabled cacheThis will bring up the cache listing, with no indication that it's actually disabled, and you can then Navigate to it and open it up in the Map view.I'm not sure if this is intended app behavior, but might be a functional workaround until the app is updated to accommodate the display of Disabled caches - if that ever happens.
Currently when I search for the disabled cache, the new app says the coords are invalid (because they're not active). Grrr!
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Or you could use a GPS and keep your caches saved on it. Or you could just navigate using the co-ords like you would finding a mystery cache.
I do use a GPS when I hide new caches. I like the phone app (the original) for generally getting close to a cache. I know many cachers cringe to read that!
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Use a different app, one that lets you save your caches offline.
Seriously.
EDIT TO ADD: I hear that Cachly is good, and that Geosphere is good, too, except it's not updated as often, if that's important.
I'll try these two - thanks.
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I like to hide caches (500+) more than find them. But it requires a lot of maintenance. Let's say I disable a handful caches waiting maintenance. When I go to replace them, they don't show up in a GC search on my iPhone because they are disabled, and I can't always remember exactly where they wee originally hidden if there is no obvious landmark. I used to be able to go to GC.com, click Hide a Cache, and the list of my disabled caches would come up. I'd select the one I was looking for, Enable it, then it would show up on my iPhone so I could find the correct spot. The new app doesn't allow for that. The only solution I've found so far involves enabling all my caches from my PC, then going out and finding them on my phone app.
Any suggestions for on the fly, iPhone ability to enable and find caches locations?
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Is there a way to view my disabled caches with this app?
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Unfortunately, I was leading 4 groups of high schoolers in Santa Barbara, CA. Each team leader's phone app crashed about 15 minutes into our outing. Bummer!
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Just passing along some feel good news of someone going the extra mile to be helpful.
I recently his a cache on a metal house number sign - way away from the actual house and in kind of rickety condition - and called it "Geocaching 101" because the street number was "101". Yesterday I received a message through geocaching.com from the house's handyman, who had seen the geocaching sticker on my bison. He looked up geocaching.com, joined, "found" the cache so he could contact me. He said he was the property's handyman and was moving the sign a bit down the way and did I want him to leave the cache with the sign!! He now has 1 official "Find" and my eternal thanks!
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When I've been hiding caches, I'll search the app to make sure I'm .1 mile away from any others. But the disabled caches don't show up, so I place the cache, go through the website upload process, wait for the reviewer to publish it ... only to find it's too close to a disabled cache. Then I have to go back and retrieve the hidden cache feeling slightly frustrated.
Finding Disabled Caches
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Not working with my iPhone, but the PQ suggestion below worked. Thanks!