Soooo apparently this guys phone was stolen and his find my phone pinged to my house. So two cops come to my door. I obvs don’t have it but offered to help etc. I checked my front and bakc yards in case someone chucked it. Then a few mins later the guys watch pings to the house next door instead, which is absolutely wrong as well. The guy was very nice and showed me tthe tracker on his watch, it had my exact address as location. Has this happened to anyone else?? Wtf

  • pina_koala@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Pretty sure that the tech is designed to use the location of the last phone that saw it, therefore it would falsely lead to your house until another phone sees it and then a third would let it actually triangulate.

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      Not exactly how it works but close enough. As soon as any device with an internet connection that is part of the FindMy network pings any other device that’s part of the network, it’ll upload the current location of itself and the identifier of the device it pinged. It’s the location of the last ping, not the current location of the last device that pinged it.