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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.
by uberman 2y ago
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.
- RockRobotRock 2y agoI was surprised they didn't have any idea how to use Find My. That and their iCloud account was all kinds of messed up. I think we take for granted how easily these things come to us as tech people.
- disillusioned 2y agoI'm more surprised that there's not a way to message the owner (or whomever has Find My registered for the airpods) without revealing their full information, but I guess that's a bridge too far, and they figure that Find My is good enough.
- exikyut 2y agoHow was their iCloud account all kinds of messed up?
- RockRobotRock 2y agoDidn’t remember their password, may have been logged in with their mom’s account, etc.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- latchkey 2y agoThis is also someone who loses stuff...
- firesteelrain 2y agoThey aren’t completely wrong. You just can’t use the speaker feature to play a sound. But Find My will still work
- rconti 2y agoIf 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.
- uberman 2y agoMy kids must have the old ones as they echo what you describe
- deaddodo 2y agoNewer models, the case will make a ping sound when you tap on it.
- temp_account_32 2y agoThat's weird, I use Find My for my AirPods case a lot and it does the "X feet away" thing as I get closer
- charrondev 2y agoIt’s better with the newer AirPod models. The older ones are bad enough that I have an AirTag attached to my AirPods case.
- nick-sta 2y ago[dead]
- tpmoney 2y agoOnly recent generation AirPods have an AirTag embedded in the case. Older models were limited to trying to play a loud sound from the bud if they were out of the case, and IIRC nothing useful for the case itself.
- mensetmanusman 2y agoFind nearby is a godsend.
- lxgr 2y agoThat was true for the initial model(s), but at least the ones I have now can be found (and audibly pinged!) in the case as well. It even works for the case without the AirPods in it. That part is definitely new, since the original cases didn't have any wireless hardware in them (and depended on at least one AirPod being in it to report their battery level, for example); the new ones have their own Bluetooth/UWB chain.