One of the obvious downsides to Bluetooth headphones is that since they don’t come with cables, it’s easier to lose them. And although lost AirPods can be located using the “Find” app, there is no guarantee that their new “owner” will return them. Luckily for the podcast producer Ivan Patxi Gomez Gallegohis story ended well.
Iván recounted his day through X (Twitter) the curious story of your lost AirPods Pro. Headphones that he had last accessed in a gym and which, a few hours later, were perfectly located in an unexpected place: a military base.
It really wasn’t a theft, but a confusion
That Twitter threads are engaging is a reality. And if not, tell Manuel Bartual and his now legendary fictional thread. The difference with the case of Iván Patxi is that your experience is real. And it all started, as we said at the beginning, when he lost his headphones at the gym.
In this intro tweet He appealed to the army itself. And it was not that he asked for help from the Spanish troops because he considered his loss to be of great national importance, but rather because He had managed to locate the headphones in a military base in Badajoz
In the hours that followed, he was able track the exact location of the earphones. At one point, it even detected that both hearing aids They were in different places.as if you were sharing the headphones with another person.
The fact is that took advantage of the function of marking them in “lost mode” so that, if the person who found them tried to connect them, not only would he not succeed, but he would also find a message. In it, the owner set Apple’s default message: “I lost this device. Please call me.” Accompanied by this, the phone number should appear.
A bizarre story, but with a happy ending
The headphones lost by Iván Patxi were first generation AirPods Pro
Ivan’s next step was Contact headquarters and explain what happened. As he told Applesfera, he took advantage of the fact that he had military friends to provide him with contact numbers. “The hardest part was knowing how to explain everything that happened and not make it seem like I was making a joke,” he told us.
However, he also told us that He was treated “in the best way and with the best predisposition by the military”. Initially, he spoke with the barracks office, who referred him to a military police officer who ultimately took the matter to a responsible command. As part of the happy ending, he was able to speak with two soldiers, the one who was handling his case and the one who took his AirPods Pro.
I was able to speak to the person who found them and in speaking with the two soldiers, everything was resolved in a cordial and friendly manner, as it was supposed to be.
Luck and the good faith of the soldiers were on their side, but Maybe it didn’t go well. At some point, the AirPods could have been reset, losing their geolocation and leaving Iván Patxi without his precious headphones. And precious doesn’t just say.
“In case they didn’t show up, I’m afraid I would have had to buy more, but I couldn’t currently spend on some Apple AirPods, for me, and while that may seem unbelievable, it’s a tool for 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 who are on the market, since that is my job.
The highlight of this matter is that It was not a case of theft or embezzlement, but of an error. In the last tweet of this story confirmed that whoever took his headphones did so “by mistake” by “putting them in his backpack.”
The person concerned confirmed that they would receive the AirPods in the following days, which finally happened and via sending with acknowledgment of receipt to leave everything well tied up. Iván also took the opportunity to express his gratitude to the XI Brigade of the Extremadura Army for making this matter so easy.
Of those, he said it’s likely he’ll end up at the gym again with the soldier who took his AirPods Pro. We don’t know what this reunion would be like, but we feel from this happy ending that it would help both of them. of them to laugh at the anecdote. Applesfera thanks the person concerned for taking the time to discover their story for themselves.
An older version of this article was originally published on 03/21/2023.
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