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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 glatisaint »

wcunning wrote: post #365
kevincox wrote: post #246

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This is the same in Canada. It isn't possible to distinguish landlines from cell phones by looking at the number. All numbers issued in an area have the same area code. The North American numberig plan looks like +1-AAA-BBB-CCCC Where AAA is the area code and BBB-CCCC is mostly meaningless. There are a few special area codes like 8xx for toll-free calls (the classic 1-800 numbers that businesses often use) but no pre…

Area Code 810 is the Thumb of Michigan, including some of central Michigan, so it's not all 8XX. Unsure how they draw the line, but 800 and 888 are the two that I see businesses use for toll free calling.

8XX where X = X

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Post by johnwalkr »

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…

Find my is really a killer feature. When AirTags were first released, there was a bunch of media on potential use by stalkers and it seems like Apple hasn’t advertised how airtags (and findmy with devices) work at all since then. Most people think they just work locally until I show them an AirTag halfway around the world that just updated its location.

I bought one for my luggage, and when boarding a train in Paris, I was informed that I left my luggage behind. Went back to grab my luggage, boarded my train and then bought more AirTags at the first opportunity. I’ve used them multiple times to prove my lost luggage is in the airport, countless times to track shipping of high-value goods and countless times to find my keys.

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Post by talldatethrow »

asveikau wrote: post #152
talldatethrow wrote: post #133

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If Person A loses 1% over a week in standby, and person B loses 20% overnight, it's probably not the battery.. Unless Person B also tells you that in general their air pods only last 30 minutes playing music. As stated, their percentage of power level fall vs person A is 2000% more being generous (person A said a week, not a night). If it was because of the battery, the air pods would also last way way way less playi…

Except when lithium batteries get old they start to lose double digit percentages in a couple hours. My experience anyway.

Yet when you actually use them, they retain basic the same energy capacity???

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Post by foundddit »

iwontberude wrote: post #346
foundddit wrote: post #328

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That doesn't turn Bluetooth off. It's deceptive. It simply "disconnects" it, but it'll still connect at a random point in the future. It also doesn't really disconnect it since it'll still detect devices and burn away your battery life. And I experimented with it countless times over a couple years. That's why I said you need to do it through settings directly. Otherwise it won't do anything.

Yes it does. Once you tap that button Bluetooth will remain off.

It absolutely does not. I've tried it countless times and my AirPods still drain overnight if I use the drop down disable. I've also disabled it that way and seen an "AirPods detected" message minutes later.

Apple themselves even says if you want to turn off Bluetooth, you need to do it through settings: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102412

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Post by foundddit »

iwontberude wrote: post #347
deeth_starr_v wrote: post #319

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Can’t you just turn off Bluetooth easily via Control Center? Top left Bluetooth symbol

This is accurate.

It is not. Apple themselves say you need to go to settings to turn it off: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102412

Otherwise it's merely a temporary disconnect.

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Post by firtoz »

theoreticalmal wrote: post #273
firtoz wrote: post #251

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

Wow, could you imagine? A warehouse full of maybe-broken Apple products. What a fun place to check out!!

You may be sarcastic but it'd really be fun for me. Or, profitable for the more naughty ones.

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Post by antb123 »

Lost on pont neuf while biking in Paris….

Found the case neatly put next to a mailbox.

Earbud one about 15m / 50 ft away. Earbud 2 appeared in the seine river.. I guess some threw it in the river.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by whstl »

lxgr wrote: post #361
whstl wrote: post #213

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I don't think I have bought an App in the AppStore in years, so the only money they're getting for me was from the device I buy every 5 years or so.

Phone support for devices usually ends a couple of months after the purchase date as far as I know, or has that changed?

I never had to give serial numbers or anything when calling, so I don't think they know/care?

Even at the Apple Store, they help with out-of-warranty items all the time. I recently gave away an iPhone 8 and they helped my friend setup.

A nice woman there gave me new rubber-thingies for my AirPods and it's been out of warranty for the longest time. I mean they never checked or anything.

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Post by kaba0 »

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 mean, even if Apple knows the address of the people who bought it, it might have been re-sold since then - so it makes sense they don’t give out any info.

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Post by alistairSH »

echoangle wrote: post #269
alistairSH wrote: post #262

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Why would moving require a new provider/number? Are plans/numbers not portable in Europe? In the USA, the number reflects the area it was issued. So my phone number matches suburban DC. If I move to California, everybody would know I lived in DC in the past. Kind of odd, I guess, but is a leftover from when cell homes didn’t exist and then when numbers weren’t portable across providers.

> Why would moving require a new provider/number? Are plans/numbers not portable in Europe? They are portable in Europe (I said that in the second part of my comment), but it seemed like they weren’t in the US, because otherwise, the post is a bit strange. The author just tried every number from his area code to find the owner, when it is possible/likely that the owner has a completely different area code. That’s why…

Ah, Americans don’t move around much. At least not any more. Can’t find the figure right now, but an astonishing % live within 10 minutes or so of wherever they grew up.
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