When I was in DC last year, I got out of a cab and soon realized I left my phone. My wife and I jumped into the next cab we could find, and used Find My Phone to chase down the other cab. It was located about 10 miles away, so we booked it across town. The new cabbie was awesome, and was excited about the chase.
We finally found the cab in a church parking lot, where the guy was watching the kids play on the playground. (I'll just assume he was keeping an eye on his granddaughter)
My phone was sitting on the front seat next to his French fries beeping like crazy from Find My Phone. (Clearly someone had found it and turned it into him-or he heard the beeping, and moved it to the front seat. He grabbed my hand when I reached up to retrieve it. Our driver was stoked that we did it!!
The next day, my wife left her phone in our cab to the airport. Again, I used Find My Phone to track it, and the guy was long gone. I kept tracking it, and it turned out he had another airport run, so he miraculously returned!! We were both happy to see each other and he wouldn't take my extra tip/reward.
tl;dr: Used Find My Phone to successfully retrieve my iPhone from a taxi. Twice.
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When I was in DC last year, I got out of a cab and soon realized I left my phone. My wife and I jumped into the next cab we could find, and used Find My Phone to chase down the other cab. It was located about 10 miles away, so we booked it across town. The new cabbie was awesome, and was excited about the chase. We finally found the cab in a church parking lot, where the guy was watching the kids play on the playground. (I'll just assume he was keeping an eye on his granddaughter)
My phone was sitting on the front seat next to his French fries beeping like crazy from Find My Phone. (Clearly someone had found it and turned it into him-or he heard the beeping, and moved it to the front seat. He grabbed my hand when I reached up to retrieve it. Our driver was stoked that we did it!!
The next day, my wife left her phone in our cab to the airport. Again, I used Find My Phone to track it, and the guy was long gone. I kept tracking it, and it turned out he had another airport run, so he miraculously returned!! We were both happy to see each other and he wouldn't take my extra tip/reward.
tl;dr: Used Find My Phone to successfully retrieve my iPhone from a taxi. Twice.
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