happened to us yestreday ob the london tube. Google thought someone had run off with the phone qwhen the tube train started up.
My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”
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Re: My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”
#252In Sweden where I live you need to use the digital national ID whenever you make a credit card transaction via some app, for example when buying a bus ticket, so you need to have it with you at all times. But with the ID you can also take a quick loan and transfer all the money to a foreign bank basically ruining your life as the bank take no responsibility if the ID is used during the transaction.
Needing a government app to approve credit card transactions sounds very dystopian. Or did I misread that?
Re: My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”
#253Solution is simple, run slower!
Gotta stay in zone 2. Or your shins explode.
Re: My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”
#254I refuse to go running with a phone - too heavy, and too distracting, running outside is one of the few places I _escape_ the phone for a bit. So I made sure to get a fitness tracker with onboard GPS. It syncs to the phone later, when I return, which then uploads workout data to the vendor's cloud. I look at the results on my PC with a web browser, phone is a passive middleman and is never touched directly for fitnes…
> and too distracting Wait, you have notifications on? Why?
Maybe he said it as in you feel you have it with you when you run. I've tried many things (arm bands, phone belts), but I still can't find a good place for it. There's always something too tight, too loose etc.
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#255In a somewhat similar vein, I find that when I use my Apple Watch to track a hike, it will frequently auto pause or ask me if I've finished when I'm climbing slowly up a steep ascent. It annoys the heck out of me because that's often when I'm working hardest. My watch is also tracking my heart rate - and I think it's pretty safe to assume that if my HR is holding steady at 150 BPM then I have not stopped for a break.…
Interesting, and I though fitbit's (now google) auto start/end was annoying
(And yes I can turn it off)
Re: My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”
#256Earlier quoted context omitted.
MitID (at least as I have it on Android) requires either biometrics or a PIN. To help slightly I've set my username to a long string of random digits.
This may lead to unintended consequences. Passwords are "protected content" that may be hidden in a web form, but usernames are not. Your username won't be routinely hidden by any ordinary password manager. You may have difficulty when the need arises to share a long string of random digits with another human, or in writing. This may not ordinarily be a thing if more LLMs and chatbots are doing customer service, but…
> and I lost a few accounts thanks to this ultra-paranoiac attitude and activity.
Sorry, but it's obvious to most people that you shouldn't just add a bunch of numbers here
If you want to trick the system, give a different (but believable) answer
In a world where some companies still think mother's maiden name is something difficult to find, give a "wrong" or "tricked" answer
(guess I just recalibrated my 'tism gauge)
Re: My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”
#257Is "snatching a phone and running off" a common enough problem in some regions that this is worth having? Or is this a feature chasing after fears of the bogeyman, leading to concrete inconveniences like this?
Societies often try to address low-probability-high-cost risks.
City fire departments, car seatbelts, motorbike and bicycle helmets, video doorbells/home CCTV, car steering wheel locks etc etc.
The dangers are uncommon enough that the vast majority of people will live their entire life without ever having their house burn down or crashing their car. But they're common enough that in a city of several million people, the fire department might attend 100 incidents a day.
Re: My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”
#258Earlier quoted context omitted.
This may lead to unintended consequences. Passwords are "protected content" that may be hidden in a web form, but usernames are not. Your username won't be routinely hidden by any ordinary password manager. You may have difficulty when the need arises to share a long string of random digits with another human, or in writing. This may not ordinarily be a thing if more LLMs and chatbots are doing customer service, but…
> and I lost a few accounts thanks to this ultra-paranoiac attitude and activity. Sorry, but it's obvious to most people that you shouldn't just add a bunch of numbers here If you want to trick the system, give a different (but believable) answer In a world where some companies still think mother's maiden name is something difficult to find, give a "wrong" or "tricked" answer (guess I just recalibrated my 'tism gauge…
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Re: My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”
#259I've been running for 3 years with a pixel 7a, even doing sprints once a week.
It triggered once.
But I keep the phone in a running belt, not in my hands.
Now that I think about, it the time it triggered I was pacing my GF and holding the phone in my hand. So it might be a much more common occurrence if you run with your phone in your hands.
Anyway, since I'm often in places where this kind of theft is common. I love the feature and I'd rather it triggers every now and then wrongly than not.
Re: My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”
#260I found this doozy from someone trying to test out the feature: > After looking over Google’s advice, my key takeaway was that thieves are in much better shape than me, and run both longer and faster than this nerdy writer has in more than two decades. https://www.androidauthority.com/android-theft-detection-loc... Personally, the main situation I'm concerned about is on a bus or train, where someone grabs your phone…
Pull the emergency handle and get your phone back. If you live in South America you might even be allowed to use lethal force doing so.
lethal force against a thief of your smartphone seems disproportionate to me