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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 [deleted] »

groby_b wrote: post #16
ivanjermakov wrote: post #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.

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.

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Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by RockRobotRock »

tzm wrote: post #27

Had no idea iMessage API exists

When you enter a number into the messages app, your phone needs to know whether to send an iMessage or SMS. They must have reverse-engineered that call and turned it into a paid service. I don't think it's something Apple provides.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by uberman »

rconti wrote: post #8
firesteelrain wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They aren’t completely wrong. You just can’t use the speaker feature to play a sound. But Find My will still work

If I remember correctly, my airpods pro (an older model) only show the last location my phone saw them, which I think means, last time they were actually paired. I believe newer ones can be found 'anywhere' like an airtag.

My kids must have the old ones as they echo what you describe

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by tdeck »

I'm a little surprised you got lucky with the erroe code. For most people my age our area code seems to be tied to where we lived in about 2006, which is often not where we live now.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by refibrillator »

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 they could do if the owner did not mark them as lost via the Bluetooth settings page. Even though at that point Apple presumably had all the information necessary to contact the original owner…

So I cleaned the AirPods and have been using them since. Is there any way for me to find the owner if I have no info about the owners area code like the author did?

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by ww520 »

Speaking of AirPods, do people have bad experience with their quality? I have an AirPods Pro 1st Gen for about 3 years and the noise cancellation function has degraded to the point of unusable. The Apple store technician said the audio hardware has failed diagnostic and it couldn't be repaired. For a $250 equipment failed after 3 years of moderate usage is pretty disappointing.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by taspeotis »

ww520 wrote: post #38

Speaking of AirPods, do people have bad experience with their quality? I have an AirPods Pro 1st Gen for about 3 years and the noise cancellation function has degraded to the point of unusable. The Apple store technician said the audio hardware has failed diagnostic and it couldn't be repaired. For a $250 equipment failed after 3 years of moderate usage is pretty disappointing.

No

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by opdahl »

ww520 wrote: post #38

Speaking of AirPods, do people have bad experience with their quality? I have an AirPods Pro 1st Gen for about 3 years and the noise cancellation function has degraded to the point of unusable. The Apple store technician said the audio hardware has failed diagnostic and it couldn't be repaired. For a $250 equipment failed after 3 years of moderate usage is pretty disappointing.

I had this issue and I «solved» it by cleaning the tiny microphone at the bottom with a toothprush. It’s a small slit that can get stuffed with dust etc and it impacts how well it can do noise cancellations.
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