Auto driver returns lost AirPods to owner using UPI app

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru:

The city is known as the IT hub and its residents are assumed to be tech-savvy. An incident that has come to light through Twitter proves that the residents of Bengaluru are indeed tech-savvy. A woman shared her ‘Peak Bengaluru moment’ as her autorickshaw driver returned her Apple air pods using technology to locate her.

A woman named Shidika Ubr shared the tale of her losing her air pods while travelling in an auto. The driver of the auto managed to find her by connecting to the air pods to find the owner’s name and then used his PhonePe transactions to reach her. He managed to locate her and dropped the air pods half an hour later at the entrance of the office where he had priorly dropped her.

“Lost my AirPods while traveling in an auto. Half an hour later this auto driver who dropped me at WeWork showed up at the entrance & gave it back to security. Apparently, he connected the AirPods to find the owner’s name & used his PhonePe transactions to reach me,” she tweeted on Tuesday.

The tweet has received an overwhelming response of more than 8,000 likes so far and netizens are lauding the tech savvy auto driver. “That’s crazy! It’s only right now that you give him one of the airpods,” said a user while another said, “Sometimes I feel Bengaluru auto drivers are more tech savvy than any of us.”