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Linked – Buggy ‘Find My Phone’ recovery tool on multiple phones sends people to one US home

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute
Image by Witer
Image by Witer

“Out in Atlanta, GA, Christina Lee and Michael Saba have been receiving a lot of knocks on their door for the past 11 months. These visitors all have one thing in common: they’re looking for their lost/stolen smartphone. At least 12 visitors have shown up at the couple’s Atlanta home, many with police officers, looking for their missing devices. The problem is that those lost iPhones and Android devices are not with Christina or Michael, meaning those device-location tools are wrong.”

Oh man, that must suck.I guess if your “find my iPhone” results point to a house in Atlanta, don’t count on it, eh?

Buggy ‘Find My Phone’ recovery tool on multiple phones sends people to one US home

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