Apple's AirTag Saved My Bike (Real Theft) 

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You left your bike unlocked for days and it wasn’t stolen. In my country, my bike would get stolen while I’m riding it.

"Unfortunately my wallet was returned to me" First World problems

Thanks for the Video! So I recently received an AirTag 4-pack as a gift and immediately put one on my Keyring and one on my Bike. I thought of putting one in my wallet but thought to myself, "I never lose my wallet!" A few days later, I had tempted fate far too much and, sure enough, couldn't find my wallet. I finally found it on the cushion of my chair but thought to myself. An AirTag would have made that a lot easier to find. After testing some wallets, I found the best quality from one of the websites that I tried. The wallet is made of good material and is durable. It fits my four cards in the middle with two additional cards on the side and any spare case. It isn't too bulky.

Conspiracy: the security guard stole the bike. when you showed up he got scared, and a few days later he took it and dumped it by the garabage

The dude wasn't trolling you, he was looking for his new car.

That person handed the keys in at the station but kept the airtag 😂

I would like to see some AirTag project where you hand one to a random tourist leaving from the nearest airport, and telling them to give them to another tourist at their destination (and that they should do the same). It could go on quite an interesting journey...

The guy who took the keys to the train station and walked around a bit was definitely trying to see if he could find a Mercedes and see if it worked

And once again, super Sparpreis made my German self chuckle.

Maybe car keys were in car next to the aparments where car body degraded the signal but phone still picked it up. Thats why they probably drove around with the keys.

“Unfortunately my wallet was returned to me by a Good Samaritan” is the last thing I expected to hear today

i have a feeling that the security guards may have told whoever stole the bike that he knows he's there so he that's probably why he ditched it

never thought id be excited for someone's bike to get stolen

"Unfortunately, my wallet was returned by a good samaritan" I don't know why but the sentence makes me laugh 🤣

I'm hooked. Great videos, I love to see that Airtags actually recovered something.

Your voice is the definition of “captivating”. It’s telling viewers to keep watching, such an incredible gift.

It‘s a shame train tickets are that expensive in Germany. Even with the „Super Sparpreis“

Man you’re so underrated honestly can’t believe you just started youtube

Great video! Everyone talks about how they work via “lost” items not stolen! Very helpful. Thanks!

If i'm totally honest, i was suspicious about the title being just clickbait (since alot of the content on RU-vid is). But it wasn't. Such a detailed and thought out project, and actually carried through with conclusions. And interesting to watch aswell, great job! Wish there was more channels like this

Sounds like the thief caught wind of someone looking for a stolen bike in his gated community earlier and decided to ditch it.

The airtags were probably in a car nearby. That explains the strong connection outside and why they took them for a ride.

Wow thanks a lot for this ! Legendary work bro ! Massive props for hella long term research ! Wow.

I'm wondering if your keys were, not in an apartment, but in one of those parked cars you were standing near?

I feel like precision finding is catered to us Americans with our specific building materials. We build houses and a lot of other buildings with mainly wood. I can precision find my airtag all around my house, even through the different floors.

I think they drive with the car keys to the metro station to check if a car would unlock

This guy needs to have millions of subs and keep doing videos like this. Single handedly improving customer service.

just found this channel first time watching one of your videos and im hooked.

*What if you throw AirTag in the toilet?* 🤔

I remember when my dads bike that he used to get to work got stolen, he found where it was and it was at someones house and he literally stole it back lol

Man you need to make more vids like this and other vids as well your underrated as hell keep up the Good work

Hey man - really enjoy your videos - well shot and put together; and you’re easy to listen to. Says a lot about the area you live in when you need to wait 11 days before your bike gets stolen!! In Australia you’d be lucky if it was still there 11 hrs later!! Anyway thanks for the cool vids - can’t wait to see your follow up on the other airtags - and yeah; have dealt with DHL ‘customer service’ myself in the past.. they work great - as long as you don’t want anything done about your lost item😂 Looking forward to your next video 👍👍

When it says "move" you should actually move to another location as it's triangulating the airtags position using AR for mapping.

I can only work as fast as Dhl can deliver 😂 most underrated sentence 😅

Found your channel AFTER I purchased air tags. I'm one of those odd people who'd sometimes RU-vid something about their purchase AFTER they bought it and landed on your channel. SUBSCRIBED as that Soap opera with DHL was unexpected and entertaining haha Decided to go back and rewatch your content from the start, hence the odd comment to a June video!

*A huge problem with the AirTag is it alerts the thief that someone is pinging the tag. This is how the bike rider knew you were looking for him. Remove the speakers from the AirTag and you can catch a Thief in action. Also, the person can check his iPhone, and it would tell him that that AirTag is being tracked! So, much for the AirTag being that useful. I suspect the person that stole the keys was trolling you, since he could hear every time the AirTag was being pinged and then zip back inside and have a good laugh at your expense.*

Great video, this one and whole AirTags saga. Storytelling, music, + editing 👌 Also love how you hack it with lo-fi gear - camera phones, screen recordings, filming with a GoPro in your mouth instead of a tripod. Real guerrilla filmmaking! Props!

I was surprised to find out you were from NZ, you look like a Düsseldorfer through and through. Great projects, I love the ideas and the (cinematic) execution

This project reminded me of some things I wanted to do as a kid which were sending/finding a message in a bottle from the ocean and sending letters attached to balloons to see where the balloon landed when it died. This now makes me wonder if you put one of these tags on a balloon or in a bottle you drop into the ocean.. can you track them and will they ever be found? 🤣 The thought of a tag in a bottle in the ocean randomly getting ping'd or popping up on land in a year's time out of no where is hilarious to me. 🤣 These project experiment videos are very fun to watch! Thanks for sharing! ❤

The intro music / theme is awesome. Takes you back to 90s when we used to play Arcade games.

Wow, you have spent so much money on these videos. You deserve better, I bet you are the only person that is actually sending air tags to different places as experiments. I wish you the best of luck!

My deaf cat has an AirTag on her collar! Edit: (She is strictly an indoor cat, for obvious reasons.)

Congrats on over 100k subs!

thanks for video. I recently purchased an ebike and live in a condo at hawaii. We park out bikes under a specified bike rack location under a roof but no doors. Was debating whether to purchase an airtag but this made me want one. Thank you

Being from Karlsruhe, i feel truly honored how often my city was named in this video, cheers! :)

This is the best airtag test on RU-vid

Thanks for showing how difficult it can be to use these air tags to find stolen property.

I was looking at the screen to the left and was thinking it was one of my videos... what a pity I was wrong. 😄 Very interesting video!

Thats really cool! You should do a AirTags vs Samsung SmartTags

Your videos are so high quality, and so entertaining. Thanks for sharing them with us!

Really good to know!👍 most the time when I lose something there are walls involved so I may wait for tech to get better before “tagging”!

Congratulations on almost 100k subs

Mega lag : using precision finding People : that guy’s phone has a poor signal

I think that the security guard warn the residents that he is looking for the bike and must get rid of it because the owner knew where it was..!

Keep it up ! You will grow big ! I love the content 💖 New subscriber

Airtags will change everything..

Hoping for the trilogy Fake Car Keys - The Return

Have you tried playing a sound on the keys' AirTag? You might have heard them ringing considering how close you were from them

I just got your video in my feed, and bought a 4-pack a few days ago for my bikes. I saw the video and was like: « ok let’s see if the bikes are still in the garage ». One of them was at the opposite of the city. I jumped in my car, found the police and I’ve been able to take my bike back 😍 so thanks youtube algorithm for showing me your video and thanks airtags. All of this happened 2h ago 😅

Hi MegaTag I am enjoying your videos especially the the several on DHL! Have you spent time in Australia?

It's probably worth remembering that Apple does not really suggest that Airtag is for finding stolen items, more casually lost things. So anything like you've been trying is a bonus - just a rather sweet one if you do recover something - like you say - improving the odds of recovering but not an expectation it was designed for that.

7:02 So the North Korea package hasn't moved yet!?😛 You make really good videos subscribed and the bell icon is on 🔔

Man your content is top notch! Love from 🇬🇧

Excellent real world test and and you got a ripping good yarn out of the deal!

The keys were probably around the balcony you were under when using precision finding.

Other: happy cause the unlocked bike isn’t stolen… Him: happy cause his bike is stolen… 😂

I got to laugh so hard watching this video as I lived right exactly in Karlsruhe where you found the airtag 10 years ago. In the second "back-house" :D

This guys airtag videos are the best airtag videos

30 thousand subscribers already. This channel is growing fast.

Every time he says Karlsruhe, I'll do a push-up

This is a great video, I purchased a set of airtags after my camera equipment was stolen, based on this video I probably would have gotten the gear back if I had an airtag in the bag, which I now keep one with my camera equipment and one in my laptop bag. For $25-$30 these are well worth it

“Only worked in a specific area” *BALCONY ABOVE*

Maybe the person picked up a girl at the trainstation and tried to impress her with the car keys 😂😂

If MegaLag will ever become famous on RU-vid, I can at least say to everyone that I was talking to him personally during a long Zoom call when he was starting RU-vid. :)

one of the best intros on RU-vid!

Nobody: Still nobody: MegaLag: "...Until finally someone stole the damn thing!"

You didn’t say “I was so devastated” 😂

That’s cool. Nice to see a air tag in action.

Whatever you say “Mr Chives” lol, brilliant!

Damn that thief had spidey scense. He knew he was about to get caught

have you ever thought that the keys might be in a car parked on the street and that’s how you could connect with them? that would explain the connection and the drive to the railway station.

Apple has made recovering stolen items harder by notifying a person (the thief) there is an AirTag following his movement.

The person must have been spooked how surprisingly close you came in to catching them, hence they ditched the ride.

i just found out about you and watched a few videos it's really weird and kinda cool to see my own city in your video and you standing at the mainstation

I have 2 airtags, one for my keys and one for testing… my area doesn’t have a high number of iOS users, it’s also fairly rural area. I parked my second car somewhere random in a parking lot near a main road and hid an airtag inside. I found between too rural/low density of iOS users and being inside the car means only get very rare update. I had a friend move the car, he doesn’t have an iPhone/iOS devices so only updates would been from random people with latest iOS update and sure enough randomly got location updates… so not entirely useless even in this area which has sparse iOS users, it’s not ideal but could defiantly aid in recovering property. I also had him take my car with airtag on a vacation trip, my beach house which is in a wealthier class area so lot more potential of iOS users. Sure enough on the route I was getting plenty of random updates of location, enough that could defiantly track him good enough not as good or as regular as “find my friends” but good enough that I didn’t feel like I was missing anything. probably cars nearby and as he approached the beach house area location updates got a lot more common and accurate! To the point where I could guessed his exact parking spot!

I’ve never seen another Jonathon spelt with an “on” at the end! - Fellow Jonathon

Awesome that you live in Düsseldorf, it is a beautiful City! I live close to there. I hope you like it there.

I love your tag names. Gotta track my important things: keys, bike, North Korea.

Lol I assumed you had brought a baseball bat for preventing the robbers attack you

"So I jumped on DB's website" *Flashbacks to Ariva Trains Wales*

his intro is really playful i always hit teh like button its really cool xd

Thats the schnitzel!😎 Should have brought a drone and strapped your phone to it while doing a screen recording to see where it picks up the keys at a particular height.

The risks this man takes for these videos

I think the reason the bike was ditched shortly after you looked for it was because the security guards probably knew the guy who took it and told him to get rid of it

You're a fantastic story teller!

Great videos nice to have someone over here in Germany

Such a grate video can’t wait for the North Korea find my update

OK...what happened to the AirTags that went to Cook, Musk and North Korea?

Seeing Düsseldorf train station reminds me of the days where conventions were still a thing xD But the next dokomi is next month, whoop whoop!! :D