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Did you lose your AirPods?

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Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

#11
I feel like you should've been more careful with your question, unlawful people might answer that they lost AirPods although they didn't.

Unless you have a way to verify they're truthful owners, I would ask something like "I have something that might belong to you, did you lose anything in the past few days?"

EDIT: I missed the part about verification, my bad.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

#13

I feel like you should've been more careful with your question, unlawful people might answer that they lost AirPods although they didn't. Unless you have a way to verify they're truthful owners, I would ask something like "I have something that might belong to you, did you lose anything in the past few days?" EDIT: I missed the part about verification, my bad.

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Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

#14
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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's weird, I use Find My for my AirPods case a lot and it does the "X feet away" thing as I get closer

It’s better with the newer AirPod models. The older ones are bad enough that I have an AirTag attached to my AirPods case.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

#15
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's weird, I use Find My for my AirPods case a lot and it does the "X feet away" thing as I get closer

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Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

#16

I feel like you should've been more careful with your question, unlawful people might answer that they lost AirPods although they didn't. Unless you have a way to verify they're truthful owners, I would ask something like "I have something that might belong to you, did you lose anything in the past few days?" EDIT: I missed the part about verification, my bad.

I mean, he said right in the article that they verified they paired.

Also, despite all the press hysteria, "unlawful people" aren't so common that a bunch of 80 messages will automatically bring them out of the woodwork. Most people are decent.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

#17

I feel like you should've been more careful with your question, unlawful people might answer that they lost AirPods although they didn't. Unless you have a way to verify they're truthful owners, I would ask something like "I have something that might belong to you, did you lose anything in the past few days?" EDIT: I missed the part about verification, my bad.

I disagree. The suggested message is so generic, that it looks like spam, even to the person who lost the airpod. Also, the author said they verified that the airpods could pair with the owner's device

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

#18

I feel like you should've been more careful with your question, unlawful people might answer that they lost AirPods although they didn't. Unless you have a way to verify they're truthful owners, I would ask something like "I have something that might belong to you, did you lose anything in the past few days?" EDIT: I missed the part about verification, my bad.

> "We confirmed that the AirPods paired, which wouldn't be possible if they didn't belong to them."

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

#19

I feel like you should've been more careful with your question, unlawful people might answer that they lost AirPods although they didn't. Unless you have a way to verify they're truthful owners, I would ask something like "I have something that might belong to you, did you lose anything in the past few days?" EDIT: I missed the part about verification, my bad.

Totally good point. I wanted the question to be direct without coming off mysterious or creepy. I knew people might lie, but I took a chance and figured the amount of liars would be manageable.

If I hadn’t gotten lucky in finding them in <10 texts, I may have abandoned the idea. Only one other person tried to claim they were the owner.

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