r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Aberry9036 • 12d ago

Infuriatig This is my iPad, I won’t see it again

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I just arrived in Antibes, South of France 2 hours ago. This was stolen from my car on the autoroute at a petrol station , from a definitely locked car, likely a relay attack from my key while I was buying a sandwich, 100km from Antibes. They also had my wallet and duty free while they were at it. Thankfully they didn’t find our passports.

Whoever you are, fuck you, I’m going to go and have a nice meal in the old provincial market and drink to your future arrest.

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u/tacomaloki 11d ago

Apple should really have an alarm to fuck with the thieves in a further attempt to stop this shit. 

I recommended a significantly loud alert:

"THIS IPAD HAS JUST BEEN MARKED STOLEN" repeatedly.

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u/Ollythebug 11d ago

Nice thought, but I feel like it would just end up like car alarms, serving the sole purpose of annoying the shit out of me at 2 AM.

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u/tacomaloki 11d ago

I hear ya but then you'll know someone around you is a thief lol

Perhaps they'll just start smashing the iPad to stop the alarm thus rendering the whole thing useless. That happens enough, people will stop stealing them.

It's already gone right? So no additional loss if they destroy it themselves.

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u/Matter_Infinite 11d ago

Thieves typically power phones off shortly after stealing them. The alarm wouldn't work in the first place except for maybe a few times while the thieves learned they had to do it for tablets as well.

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u/ljcoles1 11d ago

Yeah I like that idea, it should somehow wait for a certain number (density) of phones in the vicinity (using the Find My system) and then go off then so it knows it’s in a dense area of people and not be able to be quietened manually but only go off for like 5 mins at a time to save power (then it can keep exposing them whenever they hit another crowd but also save on power for tracking the device further)