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06 Sept 2025

Genius Electric Picnic 2024 phone hack could save you some hassle

Losing your phone doesn't have to ruin your festival weekend

Extra entertainment for Electric Picnic 2018 in Laois

Nothing ruins a concert or a festival like losing your phone.

You can lose contacts, pictures, and especially at a festival, you can lose contact with your friends.

An essential festival hack is going viral in the run up to Electric Picnic and it could save you a lot of trouble if your phone does go walkabout in a crowd of 75,000 people.

Tech journalist Jess Kelly shared a sample screenshot on X ahead of the Stradbally festival this weekend, advising festival goers to set their lock screen to show emergency contact numbers in case it goes missing. 

The easiest way to create a lock screen like this is to open your notes app and type a similar note.

If you're going with a group of friends, their numbers are the best to add. Screenshot the note, and set it as your lock screen so if you do lose it, the nice person who finds it can easily get it back to you!

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