Man recovers lost Airpods with the help of X community

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: A social media marketing professional from Mumbai, who lost his AirPods in Kerala a few days ago, finally managed to collect his device from a Goan police station.

On December 21, Nikhil Jain narrated his ordeal on X and said that the incident happened inside a national park in Kerala.

"I left my Airpod in a bus there. I waited for the bus to come back and realised that someone took them. There was no signal inside, so I had to leave the area to track the device. And when I finally did, it was already on the move, and was in another national park about 40 km from where I was. But the next day I could track it to a hotel nearby," he said.

Jain later said that he approached the hotel along with the Kerala police, but they could not do much as the location did not pinpoint to any exact room.

The user was, however, hopeful that the person who took his AirPods must have submitted it in the police station and kept sharing the live location details of the device.

While most jumped into the conversation to discuss technical details of tracking Airpods, a day later, the X post reached a target close enough – the neighbour’s relative.

A user, Edward Mascarenhas posted on December 22, "My relatives stay exactly there and I sent them the deets. They mentioned their neighbors did go to Kerala recently," he wrote.

He then followed it up with another post: "So they got in touch with them and they mentioned they’ll drop it off at Margao police station."

"By December 22 evening, the device was at Margao police station," Jain said.