Never losing your headphones is a dish of good taste. However, thanks to the possibility of locating lost AirPods via the “Search” application, we can be a little calmer. Although there is no guarantee that a new “owner” will return them, locating it on a map can be crucial. In addition to being able to leave a message to the person who found it.
And this is the story of the podcast producer Ivan Patxi Gomez GallegoWho shared the story of his lost AirPods Pro on Twitter. Headphones that he last had access to at a gym and which, hours later, are perfectly located on a military base.
It was not a robbery, but a confusion
This Twitter thread hook is a fact. And if not, tell Manuel Bartual and his already legendary dummy yarn. The difference with the case of Iván P atxi is that your experience is real
In this primer tweet appeals to the army itself. And it was not that he asked for help from the Spanish troops because he considered their loss so great, but that he had managed to locate the headphones on a military base in Bad ajoz
In the hours that followed, he was able track the exact location of the headset. At one point it even detected that the two hearing aids they were in separate placesas if you were sharing the headset with another person.
The fact is that took advantage of the feature to mark them in “lost mode” so that if the person who found them tried to link them, they would not only fail but also find a message. In it, the owner set Apple’s default message: “I’ve lost this device. Please call me.” Along with this, the phone number should appear.
There is a happy ending to this story.
The next step for Iván Patxi was contact headquarters and explain what happened. As he told Applesfera, he took advantage of having military friends to provide him with phone numbers. “The tricky thing was how to explain everything that happened and not look like you were playing a joke on them,” he explained.
However, he also told us that it was followed “in the best way and with the best predisposition by the militants”. Initially, he spoke with the barracks office, who referred him to a military policeman who eventually referred the matter to a responsible command. As part of the happy ending, he got to talk to two servicemen, the one wearing his case and the person who took his AirPods Pro.
I was able to speak with the person who found them and speaking with the two soldiers, everything was resolved in a cordial and friendly manner as it should be.
Luck and the good faith of the military were on their side, but maybe it didn’t go well. At any time, the AirPods could have been reset, thus losing their geolocation and leaving Iván Patxi without his precious headphones. And what is precious is not a saying.
“In case they didn’t show up, I’m afraid I had to buy some more, but right now I couldn’t spend on some Apple AirPods, for me, and while that sounds amazing, it’s is a tool of my work, since as a podcast producer I listen to the productions of different devices to check that the sound is adequate, I spend a large part of the day with them listening to podcasts, both those that I produce than others on the market, since it is my job.
The culmination of this case is that it was not theft or embezzlement, but a mistake. In the last tweet of this story confirms that whoever took his headphones did so “by mistake” by “inserting them into his backpack”. He accuses the haste of the judgment and affirms that you will receive the AirPods in the next few days by sending with acknowledgment of receipt.
The person concerned also expresses his gratitude to the XI Extremadura Brigade of the Army for facilitating this task. In fact, he says he’ll most likely end up at the gym with the person who took his AirPods. We are happy about this happy ending and appreciate that you took the time to learn your story first hand.
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