Since to Apple integrated the AirPods to network Look for (Find My)we started to see a lot of stories of people finding their lost/stolen headphones over long distances very easily or even using them as a smart tracker.
Alisabeth Haydenan American from the state of Washington, for example, got her pair of AirPods back following a real mishap at the airport.
According to the CNN, it all happened when she realized she had forgotten her jacket inside the plane she was disembarking from. Having communicated what happened to the airline, she was prevented from returning to the aircraft, but had the help of a company employee to get the clothes back. Everything seemed fine, until she realized her AirPods weren’t in her jacket pocket, which is where she’d left them.
This only happened following she had already boarded another flight, which made her open the Buscar app to monitor each step of the object. She captured successive screenshots of the headphones’ path throughout her trip and also marked them as “lost” – which would cause a message with her name and phone number to automatically appear on the iPhone of anyone who had them.
After unsuccessfully calling the airline and the airport where everything happened, she sought help from the police and was informed that the address shown in the Buscar app might be that of an airport employee. Interrogated, the man even denied having the AirPods at first, but ended up going back when confronted with the screenshots indicating his home as the whereregardings of the object.
Twelve days later, she got her AirPods back and even won $272 from the airline to buy a new pair of headphones — as they were in poor condition — and 5,000 airline miles as an apology. All this, however, following insisting very much for some kind of compensation.
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