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Did you lose your AirPods?

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Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by laborcontract »

ivanjermakov wrote: post #11

I feel like you should've been more careful with your question, unlawful people might answer that they lost AirPods although they didn't. Unless you have a way to verify they're truthful owners, I would ask something like "I have something that might belong to you, did you lose anything in the past few days?" EDIT: I missed the part about verification, my bad.

This framing of the question sounds like an implicit threat, and would scare the hell out of me if i received it from an unknown number.

I’m definitely not replying to it.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by kaashif »

38 wrote: post #20

and this folks is why I will never buy airpods. for $249, I can get 8 pairs of these: https://electronics.sony.com/audio/headphones/in-ear/p/mdrex... have purchased 4 already, happy with my decision

Why...why did you purchase 4 pairs of those?

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by bhelkey »

ivanjermakov wrote: post #11

I feel like you should've been more careful with your question, unlawful people might answer that they lost AirPods although they didn't. Unless you have a way to verify they're truthful owners, I would ask something like "I have something that might belong to you, did you lose anything in the past few days?" EDIT: I missed the part about verification, my bad.

It looks like this was done through pairing. I think the AirPods need the case to pair so it seems like a reasonable test.

> We confirmed that the AirPods paired, which wouldn't be possible if they didn't belong to them.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by slater »

kaashif wrote: post #22
38 wrote: post #20

and this folks is why I will never buy airpods. for $249, I can get 8 pairs of these: https://electronics.sony.com/audio/headphones/in-ear/p/mdrex... have purchased 4 already, happy with my decision

Why...why did you purchase 4 pairs of those?

Kept losing them, obvs /s

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by irjustin »

ivanjermakov wrote: post #11

I feel like you should've been more careful with your question, unlawful people might answer that they lost AirPods although they didn't. Unless you have a way to verify they're truthful owners, I would ask something like "I have something that might belong to you, did you lose anything in the past few days?" EDIT: I missed the part about verification, my bad.

> I feel like you should've been more careful with your question, unlawful people might answer that they lost AirPods although they didn't.

All it helps is remove a bit of spam. As the author writes, they checked pairing, but before that you can simply ask "Where do you think you lost them?"

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by 38 »

kaashif wrote: post #22
38 wrote: post #20

and this folks is why I will never buy airpods. for $249, I can get 8 pairs of these: https://electronics.sony.com/audio/headphones/in-ear/p/mdrex... have purchased 4 already, happy with my decision

Why...why did you purchase 4 pairs of those?

thats over the course of like 5 years. maybe they get lost, or when I am jogging I am pouring sweat into them, so eventually they give out. they are cheap enough that I can stock up and then I dont have to go hunting for ones I like if I lose one

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by tpmoney »

temp_account_32 wrote: post #9
uberman wrote: post #3

My kids loose theirs all the time and I say use find my but apparently that does not work if they are in the case at least according to my kids.

That's weird, I use Find My for my AirPods case a lot and it does the "X feet away" thing as I get closer

Only recent generation AirPods have an AirTag embedded in the case. Older models were limited to trying to play a loud sound from the bud if they were out of the case, and IIRC nothing useful for the case itself.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by RockRobotRock »

irjustin wrote: post #25
ivanjermakov wrote: post #11

I feel like you should've been more careful with your question, unlawful people might answer that they lost AirPods although they didn't. Unless you have a way to verify they're truthful owners, I would ask something like "I have something that might belong to you, did you lose anything in the past few days?" EDIT: I missed the part about verification, my bad.

> I feel like you should've been more careful with your question, unlawful people might answer that they lost AirPods although they didn't. All it helps is remove a bit of spam. As the author writes, they checked pairing, but before that you can simply ask "Where do you think you lost them?"

That's exactly what I asked the one other person who said yes and they stopped responding immediately after that

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by exikyut »

RockRobotRock wrote: post #4
uberman wrote: post #3

My kids loose theirs all the time and I say use find my but apparently that does not work if they are in the case at least according to my kids.

I was surprised they didn't have any idea how to use Find My. That and their iCloud account was all kinds of messed up. I think we take for granted how easily these things come to us as tech people.

How was their iCloud account all kinds of messed up?
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