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I wish Apple could lock AirPods to your Apple ID, would instantly make them worthless for stealing. Same as they do for iPhones with activation lock. If you tri
by Androider 4y ago
I wish Apple could lock AirPods to your Apple ID, would instantly make them worthless for stealing. Same as they do for iPhones with activation lock. If you tried to pair them to another user's iPhone, it should immediately say the headphones are stolen and your location has been transmitted to the owner.
- matheusmoreira 4y agoMaybe Apple can have the user's own iPhone call the police on him too so he can be arrested.
- Timshel 4y agoCan't wait for people pairing their ipods to a friend phone ... If the police can't be bothered to track a device even when possible I doubt an automatic reporting would encourage them.
- sigmoid10 4y ago>Can't wait for people pairing their ipods to a friend phone ... They already do it for Apple tv+ (like every other modern web based service). When you login on a new device, they send a code to your phone. Enter the code, click "remember device" if you own it or leave it if it's your friend's, done. Either way, you get an alert with the location of the login. No reason we can't have this for hardware.
- Timshel 4y agoI certainly do not lose my stuff enough to want an additionnal layer to control how I can use my devices ...
- fzfaa 4y agoWhich is why it should be opt-in.
- jen20 4y agoI don’t lose things often, but want them to be 100% useless to anyone who has decided to steal them.
- Gigachad 4y agoHow does it control how you can use it? The account owner always retains full control. It's non owners who are being restricted.
- kevincox 4y agoIn theory. In reality it is probably Apple who is in control and the account owner is asking Apple nicely to put their device onto that list when (and only when) they ask. I'm sure you could do this with clever cryptography by uploading your public key to the device when you first set it up then signing an attestation of wanting to lock it but this is probably not how it works.
- Gigachad 4y agoI could spend all day worrying about what in theory could happen. Or I could just trust that it works the way it always has and when Apple violates my trust, I’ll just never buy their products again. And I’m only out around $200 for a pair of AirPods.