My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off” • Hacker News Board

Re: My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”

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Post by Am4TIfIsER0ppos » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 7:01 PM UTC

clort wrote: post #32

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Thanks! Given this was CBC, my jaw hit the floor when I saw London. I live 20 mins from London, Ontario and 70k thefts in a year would be _insane_. Then I realized it was about London, U.K. and my jaw only hit the table. 70k is still insane, though.

Is it really insane? That is less than 200 per day, in a city of 15 million people.. a single gang of 20 thieves could likely manage that! The real question is, how does this compare to other cities of this size and demographics?

Why is there a single one? If zero traffic deaths is an achievable goal then surely zero thefts are too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_Zero

Re: My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”

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Post by marky1991 » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 7:39 PM UTC

PaulHoule wrote: post #301

alistairSH wrote: post #279

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The Apple Watch is definitely fashion accessory first and fitness device second. I can't use it running in the colder seasons - a sweaty sleeve triggers the lap count (tap the screen - no ability to reassign to a button). It's one of the most annoying and fixable (if they cared) issues on an Apple device I've encountered. Not even the ultra-premium, ulta-outdoorsy Ultra version lets you map "lap count" to the extra b…

Unlike a Garmin Watch it will actually take a charge.

I've never had that problem with my solar garmin watch.

Re: My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”

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Post by bodiekane » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 7:40 PM UTC

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Being robbed is not an emergency situation?

No risk to life and limb. Emotionally or psychologically it is significant but that's the traditional bar and blindspot.

Stolen phone -> access to finances (through password reset emails/SMS or just apps on the phone) -> no ability to pay for medicine/healthcare -> death.

Stolen phone -> post offensive things to users Twitter account -> fired from job -> lose healthcare -> death.

Stolen phone -> send violent threat against police posing as phone owner -> SWAT team shoots on sight -> death.

Re: My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”

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Post by marky1991 » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 7:42 PM UTC

erikerikson wrote: post #331

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Being robbed is not an emergency situation?

No risk to life and limb. Emotionally or psychologically it is significant but that's the traditional bar and blindspot.

This feels debatable to me. I wouldn't at all be upset if someone pulled the emergency stop cord in that case. Getting hundreds of dollars robbed from you on the is a big deal.

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Post by notsmarthuh » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 8:02 PM UTC

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Yea this sucks the moment you are shopping for anyone besides yourself. You can split up the items in the grocery store and be done way faster. Even alone, the person at home can add some last minute items. Just use something self hosted like Mealie. I'll be shopping for what I want to make and then see something is on sale and can easily look up a recipe to add to the list as well.

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Re: My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”

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Post by notsmarthuh » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 8:03 PM UTC

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maybe try your own memory, so you don't lose every scrap of data about yourself to the Book Goblins in the process.

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Post by dyauspitr » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 8:59 PM UTC

zitrusfrucht wrote: post #341

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What metrics does garmin provide that the Apple Watch doesn’t

Mostly things like recovery time recommendations, body battery, training status, some scores, stuff like that.

There are tons of secondary apps that provide all of those things. Fundamentally the Garmin records less baseline parameters than the Apple Watch does for instance it does not do blood oxygen level monitoring, so whatever stats it’s providing are just software algorithms.

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Post by apelapan » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 9:14 PM UTC

KomoD wrote: post #294

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The issue is that someone can look over your shoulder and memorize your code, if you use a pin in public. Some people will use the same pin for screen lock and BankID, and if someone gets their code and their phone they can cause a huge amount of trouble in a very short time.

That's just their fault at that point, in my opinion.

Technically yes, but it seems like people's intuition for safe behaviour is worse across the board with modern technology, than it is with old technology.

Maybe it will improve by itself over time, but maybe not? There are a lot of things that humans generally suck at, and successful, human-friendly design must take that into account and work around it systematically.

Maybe phones/it/banking/payments/identity/authorization needs to be radically changed, in order to serve society well.

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Post by Nextgrid » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 9:39 PM UTC

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Not possible on modern iPhones.

Pegasus installed via zero click 0 day exploit. Completely owned.

Nobody is wasting nation-state exploits to launder stolen phones.

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Post by ShinyLeftPad » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 9:49 PM UTC

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Ok that makes sense. My tips would be: check if it mistakenly thinks you can't directly walk to the station or something. In my town there's a particular place i often go to where Google I guess just doesn't know or care that there IS a crossing. if I just pick a point across the street it suggests much better routes And personally if it's more than 5 min of walking i would just look up the way to the station and the…

> And personally if it's more than 5 min of walking i would just look up the way to the station and then from the station separately with whatever modes i prefer Problem is when there's multiple stations nearby and which one has the quickest connection varies depending on when exactly you leave. In that case manually checking every combination of stations could be somewhat cumbersome, especially if there's a choice o…

Ok also true. In my google maps in public transport mode there's also an option to prefer least walking or fewest connections, maybe it's not available in some cities?