Finders Keepers?? AirPods

An IPhone is different though in that it remains on the Apple ID unless the owner is able to sign out.

AirPods though are just headphones which are paired with the device. So if the finder actually does keep them, they will reset them, pair them with their own device, at which point they can no longer be tracked.

Have you not bricked the phone?

I can see that my stolen iPhone is now in China, a few streets away from the border with Hong Kong, so pretty far.

I think you’re right if you find things in a shop etc. But on a beach who can they be handed in to?

I’m not sure why people seem to think the owner is going to track them down and turn up at the OP’s house.

If the DS is planning to keep them, as soon as he resets them to pair them with his phone they will no longer be able to be tracked by the owner.

Morally thats a terrible lesson to be teaching a 12 year old. I would be very tempted to orchestrate a much loved item of your DS or even DHs to 'get lost' while out and then see the look on their face when you remind them its finders keepers. Its not so easy to deal with when you are on the other side of it.

I do hope the owner can track them down but for me, I genuinely couldnt be with someone that not only had lousy morals like this but would mock me for not being that way and then influenced our children.

Dying to know if someone turned up at the door to claim them, and how DH reacted! Please please update us when that happens, OP!!

Hopefully the owner has been over to collect them by now.

Of course you should hand them in. But not because they may be tracked but because it's the right thing to do.

What values is your DH's position teaching your child?

I found some on the grass outside my house, I thought they were my sons but not, the school kids walk past on their way to and from school so I handed them in and the receptionist said a young girl had been very upset asking if someone had handed some in so hopefully they were hers. However they were manky. There is not a chance as @Tessisme said I would be using second hand earphones. I’ve seen my sons and urgh.

Tracking isn't that accurate either. I've found two pairs of AirPods on dog walks during the past year. On both occasions I took them home and plugged them in, hoping that the owners would then be able to track them. I also posted on every local FB group and on Next Door. Neither pair was ever claimed and no one ever turned up on my doorstep either. I still have both pairs in a drawer somewhere.

Your DH is in the wrong.

But it’s not true that they can be tracked. It takes 30 seconds to reset them, after which they are no longer trackable.

Someone stole / found my daughter's AirPods (she had them 2 months) (she's 12) and she was devastated.

We tried tracking them & the person had took them off her find my iPhone and loaded them onto theirs - we never found them.
She was gutted. And so was I - that was a lot of money to loose.

He should attempt to find the person who's they are imo

Everyone talking about tracking them you know they can only be tracked if they are connected and charged? And if they are connected to a new Apple ID they won't be traceable any more? It's very easy to steal AirPods.

My DS left his at the gym and they never turned up. He was so upset that someone would just find and keep them. It's a bit easier at a gym to hand them in to lost property but as they never showed up on find my we have to assume they were wiped and added to someone else's Apple ID. He should charge them up so the person can find them (you can find them anywhere in the world!) and try to track them down.

Are they actually Apple Airport? If so, they are trackable. If not Apple, then they may not be.

YADNBU.
a horrible attitude on behalf of your DH. Ask your DS to imagine a society where everyone thinks and acts as his dad. :(

@Hwory why? If YOU. Lost them, it's up to YOU to go & get them . It's not their responsibility nor can they find your location.

if you did that instead of coming to get them, you'd soon find out how waterproof they are!!

What a disgusting role model your husband is.

I hope they get tracked and some big geezer knocks on your door and takes your feeble husband by the ear and has a 'word' with him.

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@OldTinHat

ehere exactly would you hand them in? It's not like there's a police station on every street corner, or even in every village!

They can be traced anywhere.

what a foolish twat your dh is.

the owner will be able to see your home location where his/her AirPods have been taken, following the theft your dh has orchestrated.

But yes I can go onto the family part of my phone and it pin points each of my children’s phone to a numbered house address or their schools when at school etc. shows them moving speedily down the road when in a car.

Doesn’t even have to be charged a lot of the time these days. Unless weeks dead they all have a little bit of charge tapped in them.

Thanks for explaining

So hopefully if ever lose something apple then or someone finds it and plugs in then owner can find the finder as such

Worldwide traced. I’d buy them a charger so they get plugged in and they come and get them.