While jogging on the beach today, I found a Series 5 Cellular Apple Watch in the water. Brought it home, charged it, and it turns on, but the owner has already turned on the activation lock and wiped it. I'm assuming there's nothing I can do at this point to get it to the owner (besides turning it into the police?) It's too bad because I'm curious how long it was in the water.
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Found a lost Apple Watch
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Apple will not help you find the owner. Privacy issue. Turn it in to the police.
I was talking about giving them the watch, so that they could contact the owner etc.
It’s called ‘found property‘, and yes; turn it into the police.
Disclaimer:
We already know the police probably can’t do anything In a sense of tracking the owner, but when you find something that doesn’t belong to you, any/all police departments have policies & procedures regarding ‘found property’ where it should be turned over to them.
They will not. Under what system would they accept the responsibility for someone's hardware? Can you imagine the stupidity from owners?
No. Just no.
If it's a public beach with lifeguards and such, perhaps they have a lost and found office?
My iPhone's lock screen for years and years has been a simple graphic: "If found please contact [my name] [my phone number] [my email address]" ...wish the Watch had a lock-screen capability. As it is, there's just the passcode-entry screen.
My iPhone's lock screen for years and years has been a simple graphic: "If found please contact [my name] [my phone number] [my email address]" ...wish the Watch had a lock-screen capability. As it is, there's just the passcode-entry screen.
Seconded. I have a normal wallpaper I use, and one I switch to whenever I travel.
The *problem* is that, if you allow any notifications on the lock screen at all, something like that is easily hidden and many people won't think about it being there.
I also have one of my business cards inside the phone case under the phone.
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