My friend left them in a rental car. He spent more than a week seeing them coming on and offline in Find My and moving around in a university area. Assumed someone had stolen them. Finally called the rental company and got access to the car: they were in the glovebox.
Did you lose your AirPods?
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#82I found some AirPods on a remote trail awhile back, case and all. Batteries were completely dead. Once charged they paired to my iphone with no indication of a previous owner, besides the device name of John’s AirPods or whatever. I tried briefly (not as hard as the author) to figure out who they belonged to but had no luck. I called Apple support and gave the serial number, but they told me there wasn’t anything the…
I think they may not have used activation lock until later generations cannot confirm though
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#83Wouldn’t it make sense for Apple to have a “send anonymous message to the owner” option on that info page?
At some point, during a meetup the person offering the item would demand a ransom leading to violence. Creators of this tech would much rather you use it only by yourself or with police, not to interact with strangers.
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#84Speaking of AirPods, do people have bad experience with their quality? I have an AirPods Pro 1st Gen for about 3 years and the noise cancellation function has degraded to the point of unusable. The Apple store technician said the audio hardware has failed diagnostic and it couldn't be repaired. For a $250 equipment failed after 3 years of moderate usage is pretty disappointing.
In Vietnam, you can find people to do repairs like this super cheap and easy. Just had the back glass on my iPhone 13 promax replaced cause I dropped it and it cracked, $40. In the US, it is $200+.
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#85My 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.
This is also someone who loses stuff...
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#86So you scripted sending the message to 84 different numbers, was that from your own personal iMessage account? I would be terrified of doing something like that, I imagine the account could get flagged for spam, and hearing the various tech horror stories, I wouldn’t be surprised if it could end up suspending your iCloud account with everything on it, blacklisting hardware devices linked to it, and who knows what els…
It's been a long while, but I scripted iMessage a bit, and Apple has a pretty casual slide into unworking.
They don't just block your account in one fell swoop, first indicators and messaging will stop working for a few hours. And you can hit that at least a few times without a ban. After a few times of that it was clear it wouldn't be worth running what I had, so I stopped before any sort of permanent banning.
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#88This seems genuine to me, but I'm sure some unscrupulous people would love a story like this hitting the front page of HN.
Props to the author for helping the user find their missing AirPods! I believe your story. If I see another story similar to this I may find it harder to believe.
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#89> I started with the assumption that the owner lived near me in the Portland metropolitan area. With that, I restricted the search to our local area code. Sure, they could be from out of town, but hey, let's give it a shot
They could also be local but with a non-Portland area code. Generally, at least if you are using a nationwide cell phone carrier, you can move to another area code and keep your number.
I wonder what percent of people do that?
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#90I left my AirPods Pro at a school sports field an hour away, and I didn't realize until the next morning after it been raining heavily. I gave them up for lost and needed headphones for work – so ordered some from Apple with same day delivery. A week later, I got a Find My notification that they had been spotted – at the same sports field. I figured what the hell, put on a podcast and drove the hour to see if I could…
My AirPods went thru the washer and dryer in their case. No damage whatsoever!