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Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by firtoz »

Towaway69 wrote: post #195
AdamJacobMuller wrote: post #145

I lost a pair of AirTags on an international flight (in cargo), fortunately I only lost the AirTags, and not the actual bags they were attached to! One of the AirTags actually flew around internationally for a week or so (London, Amsterdam, back to the US a few times!) but sadly after about a week there were no more updates. Someone must have found the AirTag in whatever baggage container it was stuck in and removed…

My first paired AirTag was somehow removed from my findNow list when I paired my phone with my MacBook (I suspect it had something to do with encryption). I went back to my Apple Store and explained the problem. After demonstrating that a reset didn’t fix the problem, they gave me a new AirTag and kept the old one. When I paired the new AirTag, the old one suddenly reappeared in my list! It spent some three weeks at…

Some naughty folk could do this trick to identify worthy treasure to plunder

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Post by gcanyon »

hilux wrote: post #77
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…

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

Mine sometimes don't charge in the case, and can either end up with the case fully charged and the airpods fully drained, or if they charge/discharge through the night with the airpods at a random charge and the case somewhat drained.

I seem to be the only person this happens to, but the won't-charge-in-the-case problem was so bad with my original airpods pro that Apple ended up replacing the case, then the airpods pro and the case, over a very frustrating several months of back and forth. My new airpods pro were fine for maybe eight months, but the problem has started again. So far it's only once every few weeks, which I can live with.

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Post by masnick »

echoangle wrote: post #191

TIL American cellphone numbers use an area code that represents the actual location. Do you get a new number if you move and then change to a different provider? In Germany the cellphone area code is just out of a range your provider has registered and if you move to a different provider, you typically move over your number.

I grew up in a small town in the US before cell phones were ubiquitous.

When we started getting cell phones, the numbers all had the same first six digits. The last four were assigned in order of provisioning.

My friend and I got our phones at nearly the same time, so our numbers were like 555-555-1004 and 555-555-1008.

This came in handy when I was going to visit him years later, and my phone died on the plane. I didn’t have anyone’s cell number memorized other than my parents (555-555-1013) and his thanks to the numeric similarity. (We kept the same phone numbers when we moved away from home.)

In this town, landline phones also all shared the same first six digits. Before cell phones got into the mix in the late 1990s, people could (and did) use 5 digits to represent phone numbers: 3-XXXX where the 3 referred to the first digit of the “exchange code”. The next town was 8-XXXX, etc.

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Post by radicality »

ilt wrote: post #91
thorum wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yeah, exactly. I’m not sure what happens after I click “Delete and Report Junk” on every spammy-looking sms and iMessage I get, but I imagine the iMessage reports go into some ML blackbox and hopefully contribute to banning the spammer.

I understand the op was trying to do a good deed, but if I saw an unexpected message like that I would definitely hit “Delete and Report Junk” instead of just “Delete”.

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Post by arrowsmith »

t0mas88 wrote: post #205
echoangle wrote: post #191

TIL American cellphone numbers use an area code that represents the actual location. Do you get a new number if you move and then change to a different provider? In Germany the cellphone area code is just out of a range your provider has registered and if you move to a different provider, you typically move over your number.

Same in Netherlands, France and UK as far as I know. Landlines have an area code, mobile numbers are all in a specific range that isn't linked to any location. First time I got a cell phone in the US I was surprised I had to tell T-mobile my postal code and got a "local" number.

Yes, in the UK all mobile numbers start with "07". Landlines start with a geographical area code - e.g. London numbers start with "020".

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by matwood »

gcanyon wrote: post #252
hilux wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Mine sometimes don't charge in the case, and can either end up with the case fully charged and the airpods fully drained, or if they charge/discharge through the night with the airpods at a random charge and the case somewhat drained. I seem to be the only person this happens to, but the won't-charge-in-the-case problem was so bad with my original airpods pro that Apple ended up replacing the case, then the airpods p…

If you don’t know, make sure the light blinks when you drop each AirPod in. That will show it hit the contacts correctly. My APP 1s also had this issue way more often than my second gens.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by arrowsmith »

kjkjadksj wrote: post #108
bombcar wrote: post #64

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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.

Aren’t they like $160? That’s not cheap.

"Cheap" is a relative term. I'm sure lots of HN-reading US-based software engineers make enough money that $160 isn't a big deal.

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Post by radicality »

sneak wrote: post #122
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…

So much for end to end encryption that is unreadable by Apple.

I do believe apple’s e2e encryption promises on iMessage content, and don’t think it should interfere with their ability to control for spam / bad actors.

But I also expect them to know the sender/receiver, and I imagine if I click “Delete and Report Junk” button, that I would probably submit the unencrypted contents of that whole conversation to Apple. And they should have also have metrics of total sends vs reported sends.

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Post by _thisdot »

echoangle wrote: post #191

TIL American cellphone numbers use an area code that represents the actual location. Do you get a new number if you move and then change to a different provider? In Germany the cellphone area code is just out of a range your provider has registered and if you move to a different provider, you typically move over your number.

Here in India, on iPhones, it displays the city when you get a call from an unknown number.

Not sure how it’s done. Maybe there’s a code system.

Also for the biggest service provider, it always displays Ahmedabad as the city for some reason.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by pessimizer »

szundi wrote: post #236
jmaker wrote: post #220

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My Apple Watch regularly gets burning hot and drains the battery. Sometimes overnight, sometimes during the day. Very annoying. Reset several times, Apple Care was of no help, no fix to this date either. Only way to alleviate is to reboot the Watch.

This is since the existence of software and is going to stay with us until most people is ok to have 1/3rd of the features for the same kind of money. This will never happen, so bugs are here to stay.

The fact that software is buggy is not the customer's fault any more than food poisoning is the fault of people who eat too much.
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