- iPad user left his tablet in a US hotel and found it in China
- It is thanks to the Locate app that this feat was made possible
- Find My is available on many other Apple products
An iPad user who forgot his tablet in a hotel invegastried to get it back, but things didn't exactly go as planned. And for good reason: when our protagonist of the day wanted to know where the device had gone, he finally realized that it had left the establishment. But not as quickly as expected, since it was only three months after trying to find out more via the Locate app that additional information reached him.
Except that these were not really intended to be reassuring. On the contrary, since the iPad was in fact geolocated atOklahoma City– almost a sixteen-hour drive from Sin City. Specifically, the tablet was identified inside an electronics buyback store, which reportedly works with several hotels in the city – not just the one where the device traveled.
Serial thefts?
Surprisingly, we won't learn much more about this lost iPad - except perhaps that it will end up in China for potential dismantling in order to recycle the spare parts. The person reporting the case, however, assumes that BuyBack Solutions, the store through which the tablet passed, could serve as a redemption platform for many devices forgotten in Las Vegas hotels.
Despite everything, and although these are not the mishaps linked to theorganized crimewhich are lacking in Nevada's largest city, there is little chance that the volume of objects found would be of interest to a store of this type. Indeed, even with the tens of thousands of rooms in Vegas, the number of products concerned must remain anecdotal – especially when we know that the Locate network is now doing its job very well. It was up to the owner of our famous iPad to correctly activate the service as soon as it was configured, which was not the case.
Find My is available on many devices
Today, the Find My network, accessible via the eponymous app, is available on iPhones, iPads, MacBooks, desktop Macs, Apple Watches and certain pairs of AirPods. It is also rumored that the Apple Pencil stylus, which is currently in its second generation, could also be eligible if abrevetfiled by Apple comes to fruition one day.
