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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 ilt »

thorum wrote: post #71
radicality wrote: post #46

So 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…

Is 84 so high? I imagine there are people sending party invites and “lost my phone, new number” messages to more than that.

I think more than sending 84 messages, getting reported on handful of them can be more concerning. While you’ll rarely get reported for a party invite.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by lxgr »

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 was true for the initial model(s), but at least the ones I have now can be found (and audibly pinged!) in the case as well.

It even works for the case without the AirPods in it. That part is definitely new, since the original cases didn't have any wireless hardware in them (and depended on at least one AirPod being in it to report their battery level, for example); the new ones have their own Bluetooth/UWB chain.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by fsckboy »

bombcar wrote: post #64
refibrillator wrote: post #37

I 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…

AirPods are a bit pricey but cheap enough that I wouldn’t even bother reporting them lost to the local park authority. I doubt there’s much you can do besides a sign at the trailheads.

they're airtags essentially, aren't they? the person who lost them would report it to apple, not park officials, then they'd be found

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by [deleted] »

radeeyate wrote: post #57
72736379 wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not the author but my guess is that the API returns whether the number is registered with iMessage or not- like if you type in a number in a new text message it shows whether the message you're sending will be an iMessage or a text message. Don't think the author was spamming random numbers.

The author said that they scripted sending the messages to those numbers on their Mac rather than using something like Twilio.

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Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by ilt »

refibrillator wrote: post #37

I 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 guess Apple didn’t bother to connect with the original owner since lot many people do not buy for themselves and as gifts or for parents. So unless AirPods were paired with a device, Apple wouldn’t like to get involved much.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by lxgr »

Love the methodology, although they did get lucky that the number (in addition to being local) was not ported from an originally landline-specific block :)

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by mrbungie »

iaabtpbtpnn wrote: post #90
helipad wrote: post #69

I 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!

My airpods pro were totally destroyed in the washer/dryer, no idea why.

Maybe it was because it was quite a lengthy washing cycle?

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by lxgr »

radicality wrote: post #46

So 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…

This once happened to somebody I know! Their Apple ID somehow got banned from specifically, and only, iMessage and FaceTime; all other services like iCloud and the app store were working as usual.

No idea why it happened, but Apple support was able to reset it on a phone call.

My theory is that they'd kept a non-active SIM in their phone for a long time, and the phone had tried to repeatedly verify/link that phone number to their Apple ID (via challenge SMS, I believe), thereby exceeding some rate limit.

Gotta love that such rate limits exist and do occasionally hit legitimate users, but at the same time, there are paid lookup-as-a-service APIs out there as mentioned in TFA...

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by asveikau »

gandalfgreybeer wrote: post #80
hilux wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mine lose 20-30% sitting in their case overnight. It's very annoying. You ARE lucky!

That definitely isn’t normal. My guess is you need to clean the contacts in the AirPods. They might be in the case but it’s still pairing or trying to pair. Shouldn’t drain that much, especially overnight.

Maybe the battery is failing?
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