Discover My is a strong software for holding tabs in your iPhone, AirTags, or different Apple gear, however its potential to contact a misplaced machine’s proprietor is one that you’re going to hope you by no means want.
As per 9to5Mac, one Apple Watch proprietor misplaced his wearable machine whereas diving within the Caribbean, and it was returned to him a whole 12 months later due to that very same function – and it nonetheless works.
Jared Brick recounted in a YouTube video (beneath) how he was scuba diving within the Caribbean together with his Apple Watch earlier than realizing after a dive that it had seemingly slipped off his wrist in June 2022.
“I’m sporting it and poof, it is gone, slid off my wrist and into the water. I didn’t notice it on the time, so distracted by the true fantastic thing about that place” he explains.
Apple Watch’s Discover My reunites it with proprietor
Brick used Discover My to mark his machine as misplaced, however most likely did so extra in hope than expectation.
In December of final 12 months, he acquired a name from somebody within the Caribbean who claimed to have discovered the machine and was capable of name his quantity as a result of Discover My revealed it. The truth is, regardless of the size of time because it was misplaced, the Apple Watch nonetheless labored.
“Huge thanks to Jonathan within the Caribbean for locating it, contacting me, transport it again to me and for Apple for making such a tremendous expertise that works,” Brick added.
We have beforehand reported on an Apple Watch that spent a day within the sea, however over a 12 months is a big step up.
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