The AirTags have once again been decisive in finding a stolen object, in this case a car.
Once again, AirTags have proven to be extremely useful devices. Designed to locate lost items, the small Apple device has already helped find scooters, motorcycles or wallets, and now a stolen car has been recovered thanks to an AirTag hidden.
In case you don’t know them, the AirTags are a small locator device that is capable of sending its location to the iPhone for itself be able to easily find lost items. Objects like the car that was stolen from Scotty, a Chicagoan who has told his story in reddit.
Scotty claims to be a night person, and last morning he went out with his car and discovered that he was not there. Quickly understood that it had been stolen, and notified the Chicago police.
I did all the normal things that should be done when your car is stolen. I called the police and filed a report, but they didn’t seem optimistic about what could be done. Which makes sense, I live in the Chicago suburbs where there are millions of cars and the police are busy.
When he was filling out the insurance papers, he remembered something important. There was an AirTag hidden in his car and maybe you could try to locate it from your iPhone.
I remembered that I had put a spare AirTag in my car’s sunglasses holder. I bought a 4 pack and thought there might be a long shot that it could help me find the car.
So he decided to mark the AirTag as lost in the search app on the iPhone, however it was not very successful as it showed the location of his home at 10:17 pm the night before. However, before long, You received a notification from the Find app: Your AirTag was found.
Less than 10 minutes later, I received a notification that my car had been found in Northlake, a Chicago suburb about half an hour from my home. It was parked in a Walmart parking lot.
Scotty quickly called the police again indicating his car model, a 2010 Subaru Forester in orange, and that he had been detected in the Wallmart parking lot. Nevertheless, when the police approached, the car was no longer there.
The problem is that the AirTag kept indicating that it was in that place and, although Scotty guessed that what must have happened is that the thief would have found it and thrown itHe decided to go to the parking lot to see if he could find it.
When you arrive at the parking lot, located his AirTag, which was indeed under another parked car. After a while waiting there, he decided to go home, although perhaps the Wallmart cameras could help in the investigation.
I got into the car, started up, and hit the stoplight to exit the Walmart parking lot when all of a sudden I see my stolen car turn right past me. If I had left 30 seconds earlier, I would not have got my car back.
Scotty called the police reporting that he had seen his car, that he had returned to the Wallmart where he had located the AirTag. The police arrested the thief, and Scotty got his car back, although in not very good condition.
Yes indeed, Scotty has been very happy with the AirTags, and he says that they can work perfectly to locate a stolen car, yes, he gives us some advice.
AirTags can locate your car. I wouldn’t have found mine without them. But potentially he would have found it faster if he had hidden it better. My advice: hide it well, but somewhere that doesn’t block the transmission of a Bluetooth signal.
Again the AirTags have been used to find a stolen object, and although it is not their main function to find cars, are more designed to not lose the keys, can help in these types of situations.
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