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Apple Is Releasing a Find My AirPods Feature (theverge.com)
For those of you worried about losing an AirPod or two, you may soon be able to find some peace of mind. According to The Wall Street Journal, Apple is adding AirPods support to the Find My iPhone app with the release of iOS 10.3, which will be released in the coming weeks. The Verge reports: Inside the app, AirPods owners will be able to see either the current or last known location of their headphones (although it seems like Apple will determine that based on where the case was last seen, not the actual earbuds). That location data is going to be pretty broad, so it'll really only be good for confirming whether your AirPods are at home or got left behind at work or a coffee shop -- it's not granular enough to say where within your home they might be. To help out with the trickier issue of locating missing headphones that have been separated from their case, Apple is able to blast sound out of each earbud (so long as it has some remaining power). That's by no means an assurance that you'll find a lost earbud, especially if you drop it outside, but it could be pretty helpful if one goes missing around the house.
If it doesn't have a headphone jack then I am not buying an iphone.
Why they pulled the app a few weeks ago that allowed you to track down a lost airpod..
How is this NOT anticompetitive?
Apple use their control of the app store to remove an app, and then release similar (although by the sound of it only distantly similar) functionality a few week later.
I hope the creator of the pulled app knows a good lawyer..
alone in their "brave" design and not had to deal with this particular mess which keeps coming back to bug them.
But what do I know? I'm not an exec trying to make their quarterly projections.
It will use the last place seen rather than have them emit a sound. Yup.
How do you use the app if you've lost your iPhone?
Does apple have a feature to find my wallet so I can pay them whatever they want for this brand new (innovative, non-android) feature??
Only LUDDITES who use LUDDITE phones use LUDDITE AirPods! Modern app appers use AppPods!
Apps!
I don't have any real pity for someone who dishes out that kind of money for headphones and can't keep track of them. They should consider putting their money into something else.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Accidentally leave one on your target and use the app to follow them. If caught, "Oh! Thanks! I wondered where I lost that!"
If they are paired you can have them emit sound.
While connected you can use GPS and a small table to record the phones location every minute. Round robin it for maybe an hour. Stop writing table when unpaired.
Then when you need to find them you can backtrack from where you were last paired, up to an hour before that. You can even map it.
Most likely they are within 30 feet the last paired location, or someone at that location picked them up. This is NOT rocket surgery. Come on Apple have some courage.
Silence is a state of mime.
How about a "Find my Headphone Jack" feature?
... were right there in my ears all along.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
If it's as good as google's geoip was, I expect to find my left Airpod floating in the south china sea and while my right ended up somewhere in Argentina.
so you will know which subway you were on when you lost it.
That way you can ensure they stay connected together and to your device. And how about in order to save battery power you could put a cable inside the tether to transmit data to the 'airpods'. And without the need for bluetooth or a battery i imagine you could easily drop the cost to around $5 a pair.
My word i am a genius; i shall call them...earphones.
This was the problem with wireless headsets from the start. There are ton of factors which make them less convenient than wired headphones.
* Require battery charging.
* Susceptible to interference.
* Are expensive, so you don't want to lose them.
* So you'd want an app or something that alerts you whenever the AirPods lose contact.
* Might be stolen, so maybe there should be a feature that they are locked to your phone?
I've owned wireless headsets before, but those were part of A/V systems for televisions. There are fewer problems with that because you traveling with them and they are full over-ear coverings that are difficult to lose.
I suppose there was an argument for removing the 3.5mm jack. It could have been replaced with something smaller, but still wired. Something a cheap adapter could work with. But this AirPods thing was just a massive money grab.
Most people are probably going to buy cases with 3.5mm output. AirPods will probably be another Apple Watch.
If they're lost nearby, why can't they work like those keyfinder tags? The phone sends a BT command that turns them into a bluetooth beacon. An app then shows the signal strength and you get to play "hotter or colder" while waving your phone around.
Mine are always are the end of a wire.
news for artsy designers.
Wow, an app to help you find your earbuds!
You know what would be even better? What would be even better is if you didn't need an app to find your own fucking earbuds.
The lack of an earphone jack is one key reason that I'd never buy an iPhone. Mostly I like Apple gear, but this "fuck the users, we'll do what we want" attitude is just unbearable. Branding the "fuck you" attitude as "courage" is even more insulting.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Special tethers so you don't lose your air pods. Official Apple Merchandise for only $50.
Can't you just walk around the area where you thought you dropped it and listen for a crunching sound?
Instead of an app, why is there not a reminder setting?
This setting could be triggered if the phone has a set of airpods paired with it, they become disconnected, and the phone moves more than say 100 feet since it disconnected? Once triggered, the phone rings/vibrates and alerts the user that the airpods may have been left behind.
tie a small piece of string between each AirPod and your iphone
Oh yeah, there was - and it was pulled by Apple from the App Store last wekk for "violating TOS/TOA" or whatever.
Override ear protection, blast sound into users ears at maximum volume!
... and elegant solution would be to find a way to attach the ear buds to the phone. Ya know, with like a string or maybe wire for strength. About three or for feet long.
If only someone would come up with a kit for that. That would be courageous!