Apple's AirTag Saved My Bike (Real Theft)
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- čas přidán 18. 06. 2021
- A thief stole my bike! After attempting to have my Bike, Keys and Wallet stolen a month ago, I decided I would continue my efforts to better understand how well Apple's AirTag works. This is the follow up video from that initial experiment. Enjoy!
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You left your bike unlocked for days and it wasn’t stolen. In my country, my bike would get stolen while I’m riding it.
Same in Edinburgh. Blink and it's gone.
Pff in my school bikes have been stolen while we’re in class by other students lol
Oof
They just pull it out from under you lmao
LOL. Rough place you are in eh.
"Unfortunately my wallet was returned to me"
First World problems
En Latinoamérica dejas tu bicicleta con seguro 20 minutos afuera de tu casa y ya la están vendiendo en una feria.
Lol
If you leave Facebook up for one reason, do it for if you ever lose your wallet, I’d know I’m not just a story teller I’m an actual moron thats had his wallet returned that way.
😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
but, mine wont all are not same
Conspiracy: the security guard stole the bike. when you showed up he got scared, and a few days later he took it and dumped it by the garabage
The fact it was dumped seems kind of weird. Maybe the person who stole it (assuming it's not the security guard) saw them looking for the bike and decided to ditch it soon so they wouldn't get caught with it
Yes very weird - that it was just abandoned. You steal a bike to later abandon it?? Either this whole video was orchestrated OR the person who stole it knew it was being tracked and left it there
@@gesualdoortega584 I think AirTags notify any iphones they ping so I guess that's how the thief realized the bike was being tracked.
@@Smoothjaswi it’s partially true. Any airtag will ping any iphone that it doesn’t recognize so you can’t secretly hide one in someone’s car for instance. Along with telling the iphone of its presence it will also make an audible noise so you can find it. It only does this after 2-3 days of being without the owners iphone being around so it isn’t instant but over time yes, the airtag will let you know of its presence
@@Smoothjaswi iPhones will get a notification that says "AirTag is moving with you"
There's instructions on Apple support on what to do if you get this notification
Thanks for the Video! So I recently received an AirTag 4-pack as a gift and immediately put one on my Keyring and one on my Bike. I thought of putting one in my wallet but thought to myself, "I never lose my wallet!" A few days later, I had tempted fate far too much and, sure enough, couldn't find my wallet. I finally found it on the cushion of my chair but thought to myself. An AirTag would have made that a lot easier to find.
After testing some wallets, I found the best quality from one of the websites that I tried.
The wallet is made of good material and is durable. It fits my four cards in the middle with two additional cards on the side and any spare case. It isn't too bulky.
I also tried few wallets but couldn't find a good quality. Where did you get your from?
Vionentus
@@Vionentus thanks! found them 😊
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May I ask where you put your AirTag on the bike and how you mounted it there? I couldn't find a spot on my bike where it is invisible.
The dude wasn't trolling you, he was looking for his new car.
or just got himself a new airtag
Or went and picked someone up from the station
@@H.K_R with some random keys that you've not moved for a while?
No, he was delivering/selling drugs to someone at the station.
@@BigGaines they could’ve left the fake keys in their jacket of something
That person handed the keys in at the station but kept the airtag 😂
sure enough 🤣
Or they were looking for their new car.
The guy didn't walk along the track but on the parking deck. That's right under the tracks. Presumably he was looking there for the car that can be opened with the key.
@@PascalSaugy could also be that
@@PascalSaugy how though if keys were picked 300kms away?
I would like to see some AirTag project where you hand one to a random tourist leaving from the nearest airport, and telling them to give them to another tourist at their destination (and that they should do the same). It could go on quite an interesting journey...
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@@hufzte885 why so?
yeah but ngl i dont think people would like to be tracked by a stranger lol
that's called a travel bug in geocaching :D
I think it would be cool to see if it could actually travel around the world..
The guy who took the keys to the train station and walked around a bit was definitely trying to see if he could find a Mercedes and see if it worked
300km away from the original place it was found?
@@KandiMan the flyers were left in their town so they probably assumed the person and car was there too
Good deduction after the flyer drop. They clearly weren't going to give them back
And once again, super Sparpreis made my German self chuckle.
totally, especially as it was so expensive anyway.
The earlier you buy a Supersparpreis ticket, the less it will cost. When you buy a Sparpreis ticket only two days or so before your journey it will cost nearly as much as a normal ticket (Flexpreis). But if you buy your ticket couple of weeks before the trip it is a lot cheaper. The negative side on Supersparpreis is, that you have „Zugbindung“, that means that you have a specific train which you must use. You cannot use a train an hour earlier or later. Furthermore you can't cancel the trip.
I payed 60€ for a trip from Aachen to Basel SBB and back 3 weeks before traveling and I think that‘s cheap
@@mstrmren very cheap indeed.
Mir ist fast das Handy aus der Hand gefallen, als ich Karlsruhe gehört habe, da wohne ich XD
never thought id be excited for someone's bike to get stolen
LOL
@Charles Vane it's its own deterrent lol i love that
I haven’t been this excited for a bike to be stolen since like 2006 when Casey and Van took an angle grinder to their own bike locks to prove a point…
@Charles Vane it got stolen tho
“Unfortunately my wallet was returned to me by a Good Samaritan” is the last thing I expected to hear today
i have a feeling that the security guards may have told whoever stole the bike that he knows he's there so he that's probably why he ditched it
Maybe car keys were in car next to the aparments where car body degraded the signal but phone still picked it up. Thats why they probably drove around with the keys.
Hm that’s an okay theory but didn’t the airTag report a signal inside a train station? A car wouldn’t be able to go in there
@@user-sc1mx6dj9g there is a car park just under the Karlsruhe Hbf (source: I live in KA)
@@flatmarx alright than that’s probably the case!
Yeah probably
Maybe
Man you’re so underrated honestly can’t believe you just started youtube
Underrated indeed, spent €1000 for this good quality project 👌🏻👌🏻
@@maplesams5692 pfft, overrated in my opinion
@@jclau77 bruh no
@@jclau77 r u mad?
His first video was a bit but he didn't gain much subs from it, he did got a great start tho...he deserves more subs for this kinda CONTENT
@МестныйКоммунист420 *Doom music kicks in*
I'm hooked. Great videos, I love to see that Airtags actually recovered something.
This guy needs to have millions of subs and keep doing videos like this. Single handedly improving customer service.
It‘s a shame train tickets are that expensive in Germany. Even with the „Super Sparpreis“
They’re actually pretty cheap most of the time, idk why his were so expensive 🤷
@@moclan5661 last minute bookings 😂
@@iWhacko was it the 4 hour train? ;)
@@moclan5661 they’re actually expensive if you don’t book half a year before departure
Stimmt
"Unfortunately, my wallet was returned by a good samaritan" I don't know why but the sentence makes me laugh 🤣
Your voice is the definition of “captivating”. It’s telling viewers to keep watching, such an incredible gift.
If i'm totally honest, i was suspicious about the title being just clickbait (since alot of the content on CZcams is). But it wasn't. Such a detailed and thought out project, and actually carried through with conclusions. And interesting to watch aswell, great job! Wish there was more channels like this
Sounds like the thief caught wind of someone looking for a stolen bike in his gated community earlier and decided to ditch it.
It's also possible the AirTag's anti-stalking alert went off and they realized they were being tracked.
Yeah but how did they know?
@@JediWebSurf haivng another iphone on them
@@gaobo5679 yeah that kinda ruins the whole purpose of the tag
Spoiler alert it was the guard !
The airtags were probably in a car nearby. That explains the strong connection outside and why they took them for a ride.
That’s what I thot
Yeah he drove someone to the train and then returned back home.
Wouldn't explain why it hadn't moved for so long though
Great video! Everyone talks about how they work via “lost” items not stolen! Very helpful. Thanks!
Wow thanks a lot for this ! Legendary work bro ! Massive props for hella long term research ! Wow.
I think they drive with the car keys to the metro station to check if a car would unlock
I feel like precision finding is catered to us Americans with our specific building materials. We build houses and a lot of other buildings with mainly wood. I can precision find my airtag all around my house, even through the different floors.
Interesting! Thanks for sharing!
This is why China is winning.
@Josiah Clark OK.
@@orionthehunter217 Okay!
@@orionthehunter217 isn’t it illegal to even use most of the internet there? Like this website?
Man you need to make more vids like this and other vids as well your underrated as hell keep up the Good work
just found this channel first time watching one of your videos and im hooked.
*What if you throw AirTag in the toilet?* 🤔
I am also curious... 🤔
@@MegaLag You should do it by wrapping it with some plastic bag xd
Do not throw electric waste or plastic in the toilet please. Not even for a test.
it will be in a sewer
@@MegaLag please don't do it, the sewage sistem it's not a lab to experiment with electronics
I remember when my dads bike that he used to get to work got stolen, he found where it was and it was at someones house and he literally stole it back lol
Omg lol self defence
I've got an exact same story (not *my* story), except the ending whereby the, ahem, original thief caught, ahem, the original owner stealing it back. It ended very tragically for the original thief, and subsequently for the original owner. Life imprisonment is no joke.
@@polthomaskeeley7860 original owner should’ve went to the police.
I have stolen something back before too and I regret nothing. I mean I just got my shit back that's not wrong.
I'm wondering if your keys were, not in an apartment, but in one of those parked cars you were standing near?
Hey man - really enjoy your videos - well shot and put together; and you’re easy to listen to.
Says a lot about the area you live in when you need to wait 11 days before your bike gets stolen!! In Australia you’d be lucky if it was still there 11 hrs later!!
Anyway thanks for the cool vids - can’t wait to see your follow up on the other airtags - and yeah; have dealt with DHL ‘customer service’ myself in the past.. they work great - as long as you don’t want anything done about your lost item😂
Looking forward to your next video 👍👍
In Mexico it will be stolen in less than 11 minutes 😂
In South Africa it is more like 60 sec
Late reply - but thanks man! Appreciate the kind words :)
When it says "move" you should actually move to another location as it's triangulating the airtags position using AR for mapping.
This^ I wish apple would made a clear onscreen animation because not only is it for the AR purposes but it’s also because your movement helps build a reference to where the signal is the strongest and moving around helps point each of the antennas for it to reference. I found when testing my airtags in my car (big heavily shielded Volvo wagon) that just swaying left to right 45 degrees each direction a few times it pops up. And also like this video indicates have to be pretty close for it to figure it out. Sometimes the signal can go very far too, other times it only goes a short distance, probably part of the beaconing and power saving, every so often it beacons out a stronger signal trying desperately to connect to something for a few signal bursts. I picked up my keys from deep within my house on the outside a few times, and other times I have to basically open my front door to get a connection. I would put money on it that those keys where actually in a car on the side of the street based on my experience.
@@Getfuqqedfedboy I walked around a few of the cars, near where I was getting a signal - got nothing...
@@Getfuqqedfedboy
How often does it transmit? Every 10 seconds, maybe?
@@MegaLag ah, you didn’t show it in the video and knowing how badly apple needs to put better instructions/animations into precision finding to guide people so possible to miss something and figured maybe common mistake. No worries!
Also did one more test after re-watching your video and out my keys with airtag on it in the center console of my wagon and sure enough it was getting very confused, the signal was weak and when it did lock on it only locked on with error less then 10 feet away and the arrow was wrong! It was pointing to rear of my car then jumped to front.. but boy did it struggle to get a strong enough signal with my airtag and keys in the center console..
@@lumberjackdreamer6267 I would love to scope it, and see myself. I don’t have the hardware like a scope to know for sure but based on what I seen with my airtag and my iPhone 12 Pro Max it seems like maybe somewhat constant low energy signal as connections can be made super fast if your close without obstructions, but seems to be bursts every few seconds because if further back can be a short delay before a connection is established even if by other iPhones not yours.
Defiantly seems to be as well that once a connection is established that its a stronger signal and holds it better and airtag once loses connection doesn’t instantly drop in signal intensity. seems to be a short time where it will keep trying before going back to low energy.
Great video, this one and whole AirTags saga. Storytelling, music, + editing 👌 Also love how you hack it with lo-fi gear - camera phones, screen recordings, filming with a GoPro in your mouth instead of a tripod. Real guerrilla filmmaking! Props!
Hey thanks for the kind comment man! A lot of work went into making it so it's always nice to read comments like this. So thanks again!
@@MegaLag Where did you get your skills from?
Found your channel AFTER I purchased air tags. I'm one of those odd people who'd sometimes CZcams something about their purchase AFTER they bought it and landed on your channel. SUBSCRIBED as that Soap opera with DHL was unexpected and entertaining haha Decided to go back and rewatch your content from the start, hence the odd comment to a June video!
The intro music / theme is awesome. Takes you back to 90s when we used to play Arcade games.
My deaf cat has an AirTag on her collar!
Edit: (She is strictly an indoor cat, for obvious reasons.)
Why are you letting your cat roam free?
@@central7417 So u really think that the best option is for this cat to spend it's life in a cage just bc is deaf? Why are you assuming stuff?
@@central7417 She roams free inside our home, she never goes outside unless she escapes. She has an AirTag because she falls asleep very soundly and it’s easier to find her inside the house, as well as for the rare occasion when she escapes.
@@andrewsantos2927 I think the previous commenter was just worried about the cat’s safety. It is very dangerous for deaf cats to be outside because they cannot hear predators or vehicles. Sadly, deaf cats are very unlikely to survive outside.
@@andrewsantos2927 Not in a cage. But just inside. And it's not because it's deaf. I think that of any cat. And do you think the best option is to let the cat roam and kill a lot of wildlife like birds, squirrels, bunnies, and many other things? Also, cats can be mean. I know people who have been attacked by cats. Why do you think it's okay for a non native domestic cat to go do whatever it wants? Also, it's probably not safe. Cats are often snatched by coyotes.
I can only work as fast as Dhl can deliver 😂 most underrated sentence 😅
Congrats on over 100k subs!
This project reminded me of some things I wanted to do as a kid which were sending/finding a message in a bottle from the ocean and sending letters attached to balloons to see where the balloon landed when it died.
This now makes me wonder if you put one of these tags on a balloon or in a bottle you drop into the ocean.. can you track them and will they ever be found? 🤣 The thought of a tag in a bottle in the ocean randomly getting ping'd or popping up on land in a year's time out of no where is hilarious to me. 🤣
These project experiment videos are very fun to watch! Thanks for sharing! ❤
Wow, you have spent so much money on these videos. You deserve better, I bet you are the only person that is actually sending air tags to different places as experiments. I wish you the best of luck!
This is the best airtag test on CZcams
I was looking at the screen to the left and was thinking it was one of my videos... what a pity I was wrong. 😄
Very interesting video!
“Only worked in a specific area”
*BALCONY ABOVE*
Being from Karlsruhe, i feel truly honored how often my city was named in this video, cheers! :)
I was surprised to find out you were from NZ, you look like a Düsseldorfer through and through.
Great projects, I love the ideas and the (cinematic) execution
@@whitemailprivilege2830 Yeah 👍
What’s a Dusseldorfer look like? 😂
@@MegaLag Idk 😅 the hair, the stylish apartment, traveling by bus and bike. To be fair, of course that could just be any other big city style, but I come from a smaller town near Düsseldorf so it just came up my mind because you just fit in really well I guess
gang gang
that's a common insult here in Cologne in case anyone was wondering ...
This guys airtag videos are the best airtag videos
*A huge problem with the AirTag is it alerts the thief that someone is pinging the tag. This is how the bike rider knew you were looking for him. Remove the speakers from the AirTag and you can catch a Thief in action. Also, the person can check his iPhone, and it would tell him that that AirTag is being tracked! So, much for the AirTag being that useful. I suspect the person that stole the keys was trolling you, since he could hear every time the AirTag was being pinged and then zip back inside and have a good laugh at your expense.*
You can actually remove the speaker
@@aussiegruber86 *Yes, it's a hassle but it's well worth it.*
bros comment was so important he put the entire thing in bold
@@Troshock *You bet!* 😁
@@aussiegruber86 *Yes you can. If you take it apart you will see a tiny speaker.* *Or tweeter that is.*
Your videos are so high quality, and so entertaining. Thanks for sharing them with us!
Thank you! and you're very welcome :)
Thats really cool! You should do a AirTags vs Samsung SmartTags
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Buy the galaxy too!
And tile
@@ihedgehog tile is shit
Well SmartTag has a button you can program (with a bit of trickery to do pretty much anything) so that's a plus. AirTags have NFC tho which is very helpful
Nobody:
Still nobody:
MegaLag: "...Until finally someone stole the damn thing!"
Thanks for showing how difficult it can be to use these air tags to find stolen property.
Hoping for the trilogy
Fake Car Keys - The Return
Haha I wouldn't hold your breath for that one. But hey, the AirTag has a 1 year battery life... If anything happens from now until then, I'll be sure to make a video about it!
Mega lag : using precision finding
People : that guy’s phone has a poor signal
Keep it up ! You will grow big ! I love the content 💖 New subscriber
Airtags will change everything..
they already have..
It's probably worth remembering that Apple does not really suggest that Airtag is for finding stolen items, more casually lost things. So anything like you've been trying is a bonus - just a rather sweet one if you do recover something - like you say - improving the odds of recovering but not an expectation it was designed for that.
I think that the security guard warn the residents that he is looking for the bike and must get rid of it because the owner knew where it was..!
Man your content is top notch! Love from 🇬🇧
one of the best intros on CZcams!
Other: happy cause the unlocked bike isn’t stolen…
Him: happy cause his bike is stolen…
😂
Other: Happy because locked bike isn't stolen
7:02
So the North Korea package hasn't moved yet!?😛
You make really good videos subscribed and the bell icon is on 🔔
Congratulations on almost 100k subs
Excellent real world test and and you got a ripping good yarn out of the deal!
Have you tried playing a sound on the keys' AirTag? You might have heard them ringing considering how close you were from them
The keys were probably around the balcony you were under when using precision finding.
thanks for video. I recently purchased an ebike and live in a condo at hawaii. We park out bikes under a specified bike rack location under a roof but no doors. Was debating whether to purchase an airtag but this made me want one. Thank you
Really good to know!👍 most the time when I lose something there are walls involved so I may wait for tech to get better before “tagging”!
You didn’t say “I was so devastated” 😂
@Shingo true, if Zack got his signature "scratches at lvl6 with deeper grooves at lvl7. the signature for this channel is "I was so devastated"
30 thousand subscribers already. This channel is growing fast.
He deserves it
This is a great video, I purchased a set of airtags after my camera equipment was stolen, based on this video I probably would have gotten the gear back if I had an airtag in the bag, which I now keep one with my camera equipment and one in my laptop bag. For $25-$30 these are well worth it
Nooce
I just got your video in my feed, and bought a 4-pack a few days ago for my bikes. I saw the video and was like: « ok let’s see if the bikes are still in the garage ». One of them was at the opposite of the city. I jumped in my car, found the police and I’ve been able to take my bike back 😍 so thanks youtube algorithm for showing me your video and thanks airtags. All of this happened 2h ago 😅
That’s cool. Nice to see a air tag in action.
If MegaLag will ever become famous on CZcams, I can at least say to everyone that I was talking to him personally during a long Zoom call when he was starting CZcams. :)
I love your tag names. Gotta track my important things: keys, bike, North Korea.
Whatever you say “Mr Chives” lol, brilliant!
Every time he says Karlsruhe, I'll do a push-up
I’ve never seen another Jonathon spelt with an “on” at the end! - Fellow Jonathon
We must band together 🖖🏻
@@MegaLag eventually it can become a.... Ultra Wide Band ;D
Damn that thief had spidey scense. He knew he was about to get caught
You're a fantastic story teller!
Apple has made recovering stolen items harder by notifying a person (the thief) there is an AirTag following his movement.
Lol I assumed you had brought a baseball bat for preventing the robbers attack you
his intro is really playful i always hit teh like button its really cool xd
I got to laugh so hard watching this video as I lived right exactly in Karlsruhe where you found the airtag 10 years ago. In the second "back-house" :D
The risks this man takes for these videos
"So I jumped on DB's website"
*Flashbacks to Ariva Trains Wales*
Thats the schnitzel!😎 Should have brought a drone and strapped your phone to it while doing a screen recording to see where it picks up the keys at a particular height.
"From my experience, absolutely!" Erm, I'd say from your experience they're helpful about a third of the time haha! Great video though
Maybe the person picked up a girl at the trainstation and tried to impress her with the car keys 😂😂
No doubt haha
I am from that City and I can say that it is rather a location to purchase illegal substances. Girls are found somwhere a bit further to the west.
@@fabianfalk8059 dann solltest du ja wissen dass du, egal ob du jetzt in die Kaiserstraße willst, oder zum ZKM, du als nicht Karlsruher erstmal am HBF ankommst, um dann am Vorplatz in die S-Bahn einzusteigen. Der HBF ist vielleicht nicht der schönste Treffpunkt, aber es ist definitiv ein Ort, wo fast jeder der von außerhalb mit dem Zug nach Karlsruhe fährt, umsteigen muss. Klar es gibt auch noch den Bahnhof Durlach, aber das sind ja nur ein paar Linien die Durlach, aber nicht den HBF anfahren, die von außerhalb kommen.
have you ever thought that the keys might be in a car parked on the street and that’s how you could connect with them? that would explain the connection and the drive to the railway station.
Love that SpaceX launch in the background
Actually interesting journey type content! Thumbs up
Such a grate video can’t wait for the North Korea find my update
*great
I have 2 airtags, one for my keys and one for testing… my area doesn’t have a high number of iOS users, it’s also fairly rural area. I parked my second car somewhere random in a parking lot near a main road and hid an airtag inside. I found between too rural/low density of iOS users and being inside the car means only get very rare update. I had a friend move the car, he doesn’t have an iPhone/iOS devices so only updates would been from random people with latest iOS update and sure enough randomly got location updates… so not entirely useless even in this area which has sparse iOS users, it’s not ideal but could defiantly aid in recovering property.
I also had him take my car with airtag on a vacation trip, my beach house which is in a wealthier class area so lot more potential of iOS users. Sure enough on the route I was getting plenty of random updates of location, enough that could defiantly track him good enough not as good or as regular as “find my friends” but good enough that I didn’t feel like I was missing anything. probably cars nearby and as he approached the beach house area location updates got a lot more common and accurate! To the point where I could guessed his exact parking spot!
Seeing Düsseldorf train station reminds me of the days where conventions were still a thing xD
But the next dokomi is next month, whoop whoop!! :D
The person must have been spooked how surprisingly close you came in to catching them, hence they ditched the ride.
Back again!
I think the reason the bike was ditched shortly after you looked for it was because the security guards probably knew the guy who took it and told him to get rid of it
Yeah I would say so too
Hi MegaTag I am enjoying your videos especially the the several on DHL! Have you spent time in Australia?