Apr 11, 2023 16:00:00

Reported that the house of an unrelated person is displayed and pushed to the home due to a malfunction of Apple's 'Search' application

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Find My' app is a handy app that allows you to view the location of your missing Apple device on a map when you lose it. However, when a user who lost an iPhone around Richmond, Texas, used the 'Find' app, there was a problem that the home of an unrelated person was displayed.

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Apple's Find My app uses a network of hundreds of millions of iPhones, iPads, and Mac devices around the world to locate lost items when a device is lost.

However, Scott Schuster, who moved to Richmond, Texas in 2018, found that when users who lost their iPhone searched using the Find My app, Schuster's home was displayed on Apple Maps. It has been reported that it is being pushed by users who have lost over a dozen cases.

Schuster said, ``In the past few years since 2018, a number of angry people have visited our house, and they pointed out that 'the missing iPhone last showed this address,' and called me to the iPhone. I am accusing him of misunderstanding him as the criminal who stole it.' Mr. Schuster has to explain to the visitor that he does not have the device each time, but Mr. Schuster says, 'They don't believe me.'

Scott Schuster claims frustrated cell phone owners are showing up to his front door at all hours of the day and night. Apparently, the 'Find My' app is informing the upset iPhone owners that their device is at Schuster's Texas house.

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According to Schuster, many people who visit their homes are frustrated and ask, 'Where is my device?' Sometimes visitors threaten Mr. Schuster to 'call the police.'

It is not clear why Mr. Schuster's home is displayed in the 'Find' app, but Mr. Schuster said, 'Someday someone may come to our house with a weapon.' , are concerned about their own safety and that of their children.

Mr. Schuster has reported this problem to Apple by phone or message and is seeking a solution, but Apple has not responded at the time of writing the article. ``I want to solve this problem as soon as possible,'' Schuster said.

In April 2023, in Texas, USA, a stolen car was tracked by using Apple's lost property tracker `` AirTag '' using the ``Find'' app, and the owner of the car shot the thief. an incident is occurring.

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