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iOS 10.3 Beta Includes New 'Find My AirPods' Mode for Locating Lost AirPods
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I'm keeping the Find My Airpods app on my iPhone even after the beta goes gold. I used the app this weekend to find a lost left AirPod that had flew out of the case and was about 10 feet away. In a noisy Cafe, those little chips would have never worked. The Find My Airpods use BT strength to give you proximity meter. It worked and I would have never have found the left one without the app.
Okay, fair enough that Apple is coming up with their own solution. However that doesn't justify taking out an app a developer went through the trouble of making and paying the fee to submit it to the app store.
What are Earcigs? You must have the wrong product information. This article is about the Airpods, you know, the item that's been wildly popular and is back ordered through March.
How stupid or drunk can you be to not notice missing AirPod 
Oh well, can be useful for lots of ********s out there
Oh well, can be useful for lots of ********s out there
How stupid or drunk can you be to not notice missing AirPod
Oh well, can be useful for lots of ********s out there
Um, yeah. I am very careful with my devices. Pulling the slippery case out of a pocket, it can go flying and as I experienced first hand, one of the AirPods flew out and landed (no joke) about 10 feet away. If I didn't have the Find My AirPods app, I would have never found it and would be on the hook for a 70 buck replacement.
Would be neat if one could set an alert to pop up when the device unpaired (i.e. Went out of range). I feel like that is likely to be more useful. At least for me. 100% chance with these that, if lost, they're in the gym. For that I need an almost immediate remind and not an "oh ****, where did I leave them?!" Three hours later. By then it's probably too far gone.
Still, an obvious move in the right direction that I am sure will serve some very well.
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Still, an obvious move in the right direction that I am sure will serve some very well.
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They do kinda look like tiny electric cigarettes to me now that he mentions it. Lol.
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Are we sure that's what happened here? I don't know, which is why I ask, but I thought Apple stopped doing that ages ago.
I was trying to understand if we specifically heard from the developer or if we are just assuming. I try not to just assume things, no matter how obvious it might seem. Apple has fallen into legal trouble for their previous stance of disallowing apps that duplicate features on the iPhone. It is the reason why we have notes apps, calculators, and flashlights, just to name a few examples.
No need to be rude.
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Losing them doesn't always mean putting them somewhere and forgetting where they are. As my experience last week evidenced, it's relatively easy for one of these bad boys to go flying out of the case when the case hits the ground. It happens. One of the pods was right next to the case and within view, the other was 10 feet away in a noisy café.
So you can actually find your airpods when you lose them instead of last known location.