Helping return found AirPods/AirTags
The reason I'm posting this is because there's a bunch of old posts here with people asking how can they reach out to the owner of the found AirPods/AirTags and all the answers were: you can't, apple won't help you, return things to local law enforcement or local lost and found.
While you certainly can do the latter, contrary to these old posts, there is the way to reach out to the owner of the found AirPods/AirTags. In "Find my" app, under the devices tab there's a blue font item called "Identify Found Item" (it's a second to last, just above "Items Detected With You").
If you tap on the "Identify Found Item" thing, it will display the list of AirPods/AirTags found near you which do not belong to you. I don't know if they are sorted by the strength of the signal, so doing it in a public place is a nightmare, in my case there were 10+ AirPods listed there. If there's just one, that's the one you found and if you follow instructions from the app, there's a button which takes you to an Apple web-site where the owner can leave a message with the phone number/email address.
In my case they replied within minutes and the Air Pods Pro were returned to the owner within 24 hours of being reported lost.
I'm hoping these instructions will eventually be displayed before the old posts.
