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I own a small business and one of my customers brought in an Apple Watch she said she found in an airport. Is there anyway to find the owner? They should have a lost and found data base for these things. This is so unfortunate and frustrating.
The person should have turned it in to Lost and Found at the Airport it was found at. That would have been a better chance at the owner finding it.
✔️ I really don’t want to go to my local police department with a lost watch. I own a small bar here in town and one of my customers brought it in to me. I don’t know why she wouldn’t have thought to just turn it in at the airport. That’s what I would’ve done. Our law enforcement deal with much bigger problems. I’m going to put this thing in an envelope and mail it to the closest Apple store and let them deal with it. 😊 it’s just driving me insane that there’s no way to contact the owner. These things are expensive.
It is a privacy issue. Apple does not provide access to information about anyone owning Apple products and does not maintain a database about lost/stolen products. The lack of a database is because of the ability of original owners that are registered as purchasers to sell, trade, giveaway products. There is no way for Apple to know who legally, or illegally, may be in possession of devices. The Find My provides device owners to configure their devices to be locked and display information on how to contact them. If the owner fails to do that, there is nothing else that can be done, with the exception of turning devices into law enforcement. If the owner reports a device lost/stolen at a police agency, or someone turns one in, the police can search the serial number through reports of lost/stolen items to see if the owner made a report.
Someone should make an app for this. Search for lost devices via serial numbers. I bet there’s some good money to be made there! The airport she found this thing at is almost two hours away. I’m in central Georgia and this watch has a New York City scape on the face. Our law enforcement’s dealing with a shooting near about every day. I’ll mail it to Apple and hope for the best. Anyways, thanks for your help! 😊
The only way is if they put the watch in lost mode and put a contact number on the screen.
Oooh you said the owner had to do that. Well that’s such a waste. From what I’ve gathered just googling, this Watch is useless now.
Hand it in to the police.
You're welcome.
Is there anyway to find the owner of a found Apple Watch?
