The owner apparently can track it, and Find My said as much. When I follow these prompts, nothing happens. I just get a spinning circle and “waiting” message. And when I try to play a sound or use Find My, nothing happens, it can’t be found by the network. How can I access the supposed Lost Mode contact info? None of the prompts work! I would like to return it to the owner
iPhone 12 mini, iOS 15
Again, the prompt given states:
Learn More
1. This AirPod can be located by its owner using the Find My app. For more
information, follow the instructions below.
2. Press once on the AirPod stem with
two fingers.
3. Tap "Continue on Website" for more
information, and to see if there is a Lost
Mode message from the owner.
And when I did as prompted, nothing happened. Just a spinning circle and the word “waiting”. No “continue to website” button to click and find more information. Then Find My cannot even find a device that is literally right in front of me and connected. The question is why have a service if it does not work? Find My AirPods does not work for either the person who lost the item or the finder. As for myself, if I lost such an expensive item, I would have no trouble sharing my contact information in hopes that it would be returned…but I wouldn’t be able to share it, as it just sends the finder to a spinning “waiting” prompt. Perhaps, someday, we’ll read of the Find My AirPod Serial Killer, but it’s likely they’d be sent to wrong address anyway.
They are tracking it, the screenshot above supposedly should connect me to their Lost Mode message, but it does not. The question is more to why Apple’s service does not do what it should. The police I’m sure have a box full of lost earbuds, bus passes, electric toothbrushes, remote controlled vibrators, etc, all looking for the their owners, but that was not the question I was asking, thanks.
The display indicates it can be tracked, not that it is being tracked.
Any solution used here must assume some folks asking this question will have found or will have stolen a device, and will then seek to use it to track, and to gain information useful for assaults, theft, robbery, domestic violence, and worse.
See “if”, not see “pig”, dear lord autocorrect
Turn the device into local authorities near where it was found, or recycle it.
Apple will not reveal the owner.
The owner has the option to track the device should they choose to.
I found a lost AirPod Pro, charged and paired it to see pig I could find the owner, but
