• Find My and AirPods Pro (1st generation)...

    From TDH1978@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 7 17:37:27 2023
    Can someone please tell how the 'Find My' app (on either iOS or iPadOS
    or macOS) tracks my (1st generation) AirPods Pro?  Do the AirPods have
    to be inside or outside their case?  What if they have no charge left? 
    What if the person who took my AirPods is using them with an Android
    phone?  Is there any way that the person can prevent the AirPods from
    being found?

    I assume that AirPods Pro do not work like AirTags, and that the
    technology to find them (using 'Find My') is different.

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  • From Alan Browne@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 8 07:48:04 2023
    On 2023-07-07 17:37, TDH1978 wrote:
    Can someone please tell how the 'Find My' app (on either iOS or iPadOS
    or macOS) tracks my (1st generation) AirPods Pro?  Do the AirPods have

    It can't. It can cause a sound to play on the airpod however and
    display (map) where it was last known to be at.

    https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/airpods/dev8e8b93d71/web

    to be inside or outside their case?  What if they have no charge left?

    May not be able to play a sound.

    What if the person who took my AirPods is using them with an Android
    phone?  Is there any way that the person can prevent the AirPods from
    being found?

    Hard to say - your phone still believes it is paired with the AirPod, so
    it might be able to get the pod to play a sound.


    I assume that AirPods Pro do not work like AirTags, and that the technology to find them (using 'Find My') is different.

    Airpods don't presently have AirTag. It uses Bluetooth for the
    "locating" function. Later pods (3rd, pro) can be located more
    accurately with the FindMy app (and on later model iPhones).

    --
    “If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything."
    -Ronald Coase

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