AirPods Pro Detected Near You

This is scary. Never thought of the malicious intent that could come of these. people could just toss an air tag in your car and find where you live. Can’t say this is helpful when it works let alone when it letting others see your location randomly.

I’m getting this same notification as well as my wife. I know for sure they are from my daughters AirPods(my wife and I don’t own AirPods) so I know it’s nothing malicious. However, the notifications are rather annoying and would like them to stop

I just got this message today and it is freaking me out. My AirPods were in my apartment the whole time and these AirPods that aren’t mine were blocks away from my house and then near my apartment. Any updates?!?

This is happening to me as well, it has happen at least 3 times, I don’t own airpods, it is starting to happen to me daughter she does owns AirPods

but she got this message yesterday while we were away from home and her airpods were not with her

this is scary, apple definitely needs to fix this ASPA

This happened to me last night/this morning. I don’t own AirPods and have been asleep this whole time. The support engineer had me try a bunch of things but what worked was signing out of my Apple ID and then signing back into it. He thinks it was a technical glitch.

I’ve had the same thing for the past few days and I’d imagine its either some sort of exploit that was found to make your device believe there was someone’s missing device on you at all times so they can track your location, or (hopefully) an error. In my case its two separate pairs of airpod pros, which would not make sense to throw on someone to intentionally track, so I’d say that option is unlikely. When I search for either pair it just says it can’t connect. No one in my household owns a pair of airpod pros, so thats also ruled out. Just hoping it’s an error on apple’s part.

I’m getting this message for my own AirPods.

My phone recognises my AirPods as my own (I can see them in the FindMy app). Also, when I play the sound after clicking on “discover more about this item”, it plays the sound on my own AirPods).

the only thing I can think off that may be causing the issue is that I’ve connected my airpods to my wife’s phone. I’ll try run some tests and get back to you guys.

I’m curious if others have iCloud+ Pr ivate Rela y? Also likely “they” added or changed a database field reflecting product improvement update. 

Did anyone fill out a bug report? or proceed to lose their minds and call the police (better if you called your psychologist lol)…

I got the alert again yesterday and it tracked to my own AirPods for the first 5 minutes. After that it stopped showing up on the locator. Idk what’s up but maybe it’s some kind of bug, or hopefully not, some exploit that people are using.

Should have updated here. I found the issue was that for some reason my AirPods were coming up as someone else’s. I think I ended up just removing them from my phone and doing a reset on the AirPods. Haven’t had the issue since then.

quiltersue99 wrote:

If our iphones are being used to help people find lost or stolen property there must be a way to opt out. Right? Really don't want strangers coming to my house or office looking for stolen property.

I believe,you can opt out by going to Settings > {Your Name} > Find My > Find My iPhone > Find My network > Off.

How do you text Apple support?

I got a new phone and I'm getting this message on the new phone for my own AirPods.

This just happened to me two days ago. Apple seemed stumped. Concerned but did notice it happened the morning following an update.