If it makes you feel any better, the guy was trying to rob you, so your Chiswick reputation will be fine! AirPods can only be tracked if they are within range of the owner’s iPhone. So he couldn’t have tracked them to your house, unless he’d actually dropped them outside himself, where the Find My app would display the last known location. They don’t work like the Air tags which can connect to any nearby iPhone (like the Tiles). The last known location isn’t particularly accurate. It is a good 50-100m circumference - and would still only track the last time they were connected, so if he just randomly dropped them outside your house while walking past, they still wouldn’t show on a map. (Mine are in my pocket but the map shows a couple of miles away in Hartington Road where I was a couple of hours ago and stopped listening to music.)Definitely a scam, so you’d be sensible to call the police next time - and tell him that, as I don’t think he’d stick around or come back!
Ed Saper ● 1940d