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Did you lose your AirPods?

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Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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There was a story of a hit and run in Florida recently where the teenager lost one earbud in the car that hit him. Using Find My they found the driver who hit them and arrested them for felony hit and run.

I’m glad they caught the piece of shit. I’m also a victim of a hit and run.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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> Apple support was able to reset it on a phone call. That too.

Apple's phone support is insane, at least where I used it. High audio quality, no rush and no signs of them being an underpaid call center operator, always going the extra mile to help me.

Yep, we had to contact Apple support maybe three times since we switched to Apple products in 2007. It was easy to get hold of them every time and they were very pleasant.

The last time there was an issue with an Apple Care payment. I was forwarded to someone who I believe was actually in Apple’s Dutch accounting department (certainly not a help desk drone). They called me back to follow up and even after everything was sorted out to check if everything was looking good on my end.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Could be either/or. I long ago lost the brassiere that came with my AirPods Max (not really lost, I just can’t be arsed to dig it out of where I think it is) and they’ll drain themselves fairly quickly just trying to throw out stray connections to any of the five or so devices they can connect to unless I make a point of disconnecting them. AirPods Pro exhibit the same exact symptoms when the contact inside the case…

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Please don’t turn this place into Reddit.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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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.

They're also impossible to register without an iOS device. I have a pair that I won, but have no iPhone or iPad. They work great with my Macs, and pretty well with Android, but there is no way for me to register them with Find My, which is pretty annoying. There's no logical reason they couldn't do this on a Mac.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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I lost AirPods with an AirTag attached to them in my (now former) apartment complex's parking structure. It was Austin and so APD refused to help recover them despite me telling them there was an AirTag on them and they were still in the area, but moved to a vacant building leased by Google. Still no help from APD. Then, I watched them migrate to a residential address in another nearby town. Again, zero help from the Austin Police Department. Calling the police department in the other city was also of no help.

tl;dr: Don't live in Austin. That Google building's security people were thieves.

Reasons: Nonviolent crimes aren't policed in ATX because they're short ~300 officers. And, it also isn't prosecuted because the DA has the same views as other big cities, leading to more crime and a city death spiral.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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

That’s after screening to see if the number was linked to iMessage —- ie a valid iPhone attached to the number. That’s what that lookup service did. Then they scripted messaging the numbers that worked.

Yes, and after screening they had 84 recipients to contact.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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A month ago or so I helped a tourist rescue his iPad which was stolen and throw in a field of tall grass. I also found a pair of 1st Gen airpods who weren't his, and I guess they were stolen some time ago. The old models don't have this feature, and bringing them to the police won't do anything here, since someone should voluntarily go to the police and ask for a pair of lost airpods... I've looked for and there aren't alternative ways to localize them or to get back the owner, it sucks

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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It's an iOS bug. It happens now and then for me, and when it happens it drains all the battery juice. Still no fix to this date.

could you link the bugreport or sth pls. apple has such weird bugs. on my iphone if i set an alarm and late at night i decide to tell siri to put another alarm she deletes the first one. did miss some flights because of that. and sometimes it doesnt ring at all. have a analog alarm for that now.

Apple doesn’t really care about bugs. They’ll get fixed if and when they feel like it.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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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…

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

That is very strange and defective.
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