Sometimes it can unexpectedly be worth leaving your (Apple) device in the car. (Image: Apple, Ferrari)
Nowadays it is often easy to roughly locate lost electronic devices. This circumstance recently proved fatal for a car thief in the USA.
Im Detail: It’s about a Ferrari 812 GTS, which is loud roadandtrack.com is worth over 500,000 dollars. The theft of the expensive vehicle took place in the US state of Connecticut.
- According to the Waterbury Police Department, the car was stolen on September 16th in the town of Greenwich, which is approximately 60 kilometers northeast of central New York.
- Using the owner’s AirPods, which were still in the car, authorities were able to determine the location of the Ferrari, which was at a gas station at the time.
- The thief initially successfully fled from the police. Since his own iPhone was still in the stolen car, the authorities were able to clearly identify him as the perpetrator.
The arrest finally took place on September 26th as part of another car theft, which the perpetrator later carried out together with an accomplice.
Like you with the help of Google Find my device
The following short trailer from Motorola shows that you can find lost items yourself with the appropriate moto tags:
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Motorola presents a new alternative to Apple’s AirTags
How exactly was the location possible?
To locate lost Apple devices like AirPods, you can Where is?
-Use app. She was also the model for Google’s Find My network.
This is how retrieval works: In order to detect devices without an internet connection and at greater distances, the app uses so-called Bluetooth crowdsourcing.
- The basic idea is that other nearby devices with their own interconnection receive Bluetooth signals from the lost gadget.
- These signals are sent to the encrypted
Where is
-App transmits and thus enables a relatively precise location of the object.
Finding objects this way is only possible if your battery is not empty or if your Bluetooth module can still send signals.
You can find out exactly how you make the appropriate settings in the app in our article This is how you locate your iPhone – even if it is turned off
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Do you already have Apples? Where is
App or the relatively new Google counterpart in the form of the Find My network have been used successfully to find a lost cell phone or other device? Do you also use AirTags or Android alternatives like moto Tags to be able to determine the location of non-electronic objects? Feel free to write it in the comments!
