Tracking Down The Owner Of This Lost iPhone 12 Pro Max
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ต.ค. 2022
- Found a lost phone? Here's how you find its owner.
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I have a similar story. I found an iPhone that had been run over on the side of the road and the screen was completely smashed so I couldn't read anything on it. But through a little bit of testing, I realized that despite the screen being smashed, the phone itself would stay on. So I charged it up and took it everywhere with me with a pair of wired earpods. And then a couple of hours later it rang and the only way to answer it was through the earpods. When I answered it I told the owner exactly where I was. He came, met me, grabbed his phone and gave me a gift card to his restaurant. It was pretty cool.
That’s wholesome
Using headphones like that is actually super smart
Good job m8!
Bless this man. What a hero.
@@Bubble_Nugget and now they don't have Headphone Jack :)
See Apple, the SIM card is still useful.
and this is why the push for e-sim is happening.
Apple: more sales!!
@@MasterYoshidino Yep. Considering how much we depend on our mobile phone numbers for 2-factor authentication it’s insecure as hell.
Nahhh they'd prefer if the iPhone stayed in a limbo where it's a paperweight and devoid of any way to identify the original owner, just to make sure the original owner will get an iCloud subscription and apple care for their next iPhone.
hehe
We need more kind people like you
we need more people like you ❌
be like him ✅
For sure.
I use to be like him until I found a phone once and tried to return it but the owner tried to say I stole it so after that if I find a phone I take to a phone store to turn it in.
@@retro8696 He or she was an ASSHOLE. You should have told him, why would I return it if I stole it? I could have sold it, IDIOT.
I am one kind man like him.
I returned someone their lost/stolen phone one time. I also have a shop and someone brought it in, I charge it and first thing I see is the Apple ID lock and “please call” prompt. So I ask the person trying to sell it, and tell them it’s stolen. They leave, I call the number of the owner and they come to my shop and accused me of stealing it and trying to resell it in my shop…… I was just in shock told them take the phone and never come back. It’s sad you try to do something nice. I even did robed the person who brought it into the shop to them, and I’m sure it was a friend or family of there’s and they didn’t want to believe it.
It's a bit hard to understand your comment.
That rude
@@Qwerty-uiop no it isn’t stfu
I honestly wonder what the dude who brought it in was thinking, like not one shop just blindly buys phones lol the first thing they do is see if it turns on.
I also don’t get the owner of the phone, who would steal a phone and then call the owner telling them they found their phone? Lol
@@QueenJeremy yeah it is
I bought a lost iPhone 11 and contacted the guy. Turns out he was from Spain - a whole continent away from me! (I'm from Bulgaria). He paid for it to be shipped back as he was an architect and had some important info on it. If it weren't for you, Hugh, I would have never gotten into the whole phone repair world and the guy would have most likely never gotten his phone back as the person I bought it off from had no intentions of contacting the owner.
Thanks Hugh!
Bruh still the same continent
@@1000AbonnentenohneVideo86 On paper yes, in reality not so much
@@deinpxdoxd8490 nah bro u cappin like ain’t u had geography at school ?🤣
@@1000AbonnentenohneVideo86 Bulgaria is still Europe but it's only a few 100km away from Asia
@@woodenfishes That, and the fact that the EU doesnt really care about Bulgaria
My uncle found a phone and I tired so hard to find a way to contact the owner and the idea to take out the sim is what got me their phone number. No other video I saw mentioned this and I actually got the right owner from the sim! They were so excited but it had been two or three months since the phone was lost so they let me keep it. You're such an incredible person for going to such great lengths to find the owner of the phone in your possession and I wish more people were like you. I wish all the good karma of the world upon you and your future.
Edit: I just realized that this video was posted today that all of this transpired. You must be an angel of some sort because wow is that convenient.
@@olgamoss8638 a 12 pro max just like the video lmao
did the owner remove their icloud from it, or did it not have it set up? cuz if it had icloud on it and you dont have the password from the original owner, the phone's a paperweight. I see icloud locked phones alot at work, usually from people that got it second hand from family or friend, or I guess bought it from a someplace that didnt check for that (presumably some online source) and I have to explain to them that without the password the device is useless and at best can be sold for spare parts, and no matter how much money they offer me, I cant change that, they are sol. Also a bit surprised that the phone wasnt reported stolen and blacklisted.
@@AtrociousAK47 I'm guessing they never icloud locked the phone or that they just deleted it after they originally lost it. When I reset it I wasn't promoted for an icloud password which was really nice but then again, having the number, I could've called the original owner and asked them to remove the icloud lock from their phone considering they wanted to let me keep it.
Why you didn't get the phone from the seller?
Hey Hugh!
I wanted to point out that Samsung phones have the ability to display custom text on the lock screen of the device. I have my name, work email, and employer on it since I travel a lot. It's actually saved me from losing my phone on one occasion because a good samaritan emailed me where they dropped the phone off :)
Edit: As some other people have mentioned in the comments below, this is available on all Android devices, thanks!
btw that's on all androids
There's one in MIUI as well, I have it set up on my Redmi Note 7
Exactly right ! This has been in Android since at least Android 4.1...
exactly what i was thinking, such a useful feature
I believe Apple has this but it's enterprise-only. Either way, anyone *can* add a message onto the lock screen but it requires enabling lost mode with Find My. If you have 2FA you're pretty much screwed.
Years ago I found an iPhone on a gravel road and was able to locate the owner after a couple weeks, I didn’t get a thank you or anything out of it.
Very annoying since I put out a bunch of signs in the area and spent a great deal of my own time trying to track him down.
Next time I’ll probably just drop the phone off to a police station to avoid the aggravation and time wasted. Lol
Or just keep it, fuckem
Awe I’m sorry
Thank you!
Sounds like a typical self absorbed iPhone user. Sorry for that experience.
@candyman try everybody. That’s how I see the world. They don’t give a damn about me so why I them?
Wow you’re not only a phone repair tech guy but also an inspector! I love ❤️ your gesture of how you have gone ahead and tried reaching out to its rightful owner! As always I’m a huge fan of your restoration work! Good Samaritan ❤❤
My mom once found a phone on the street on her way to work that wasn't password locked. She unlocked it, checked if there was a contact called "mom", called the owner's mother to tell her her kid had lost their phone. Not much later the mother, together with her teenage son, came to the store where my mom works to pick it up
Killer: tries to get rid of evidence
Hugh: I want to return your evidence
Glad I wasn’t the only one thinking that. Seems hard to believe a newish iPhone was chilling on a highway by accident. And the service is canceled + new phone number 🤔
sus tbh
@@Noadvantage246 or maybe it fell off the pocket of a motorcyclist I dunno
@@Noadvantage246 i’ve seen so many video’s of people filming stuff and then the wind knocks the phone out of their hands, or like what the person above me said too, it slipped out a pocket of a motorcyclist that i’m not surprised
@@spillinout But why would they change their phone number. Everyone that happens to will just get a new phone and keep the same number.
I'm glad there is people like you,one on my cousin found an old iPhone 7+,it didn't have any numbers on it or a Apple ID,so I couldn't call the owner,I went into the photos and saw pictures of an old lady,I fell bad for her:(
RIP Sim cards. Thanks a lot Apple. "You will own nothing, and you will be happy"
That was good of you to go through all that effort to find the owner.
Slightly different story. One of my hobbies is book collecting. Years ago, I missed out on getting a very old illustrated bible. My wife went out and got a fairly old bible to cheer me up. It was a kind gesture, but it wasn't the kind I needed. However in the front page, there was some personal messages from about 50 years ago. Since my wife picked it up locally, and part of the message had Ealing in it. So I reached out on local Facebook pages. Surprised to get a response fairly quickly. The great grand daughter picked it up, and said they was surprised how it ended up in a charity shop. But they was happy they got it back after 50 years.
Thank you for sharing this beautiful story. It warmed my heart💖
Quick tip use packing tape over the screen so all the glass shards stay in one place
why does that remind me of a chris fix video of when he replaces a windshield?
@@unitaryexile6549 Yoooo I coincidentally rewatched that video a few days ago haha, ChrisFix is the man! 🥳
Hugh, in case you still have that phone and were interested in possibly fixing it for the customer to retrieve their data from it, note that iPhone bootloops can potentially be fixed by removing the Face ID module. You should be able to find results if you Google it usually in regards to iPhone, bootloops, water damage, Face ID.
I lost that same-color iPhone 12 Pro Max around 2 years ago in Dallas, TX on Highway 75!! I was recording myself driving on the freeway with the phone mounted above my skyroof til the wind knocked it off going 70+ MPH 🥲I went back to look for it but it was dangerous with speeding cars driving past me. I eventually gave up and put in an RMA for a replacement, but that was about how I expected that phone to look like! Funny that this vid popped up when I thought back to that day 😆
You created a dangerous projectile that could hit other cars on the road when it fly off your mount. People use GoPro's for such purposes, not phones.
@@DarkGT And GoPro's are one tough cookie, to the point that one even survived being dipped in lava
@@DarkGT gopros... which can also fly away and become a dangerous projectile? Stop complaining
Yeah that’s not how an RMA works 😂 you literally have to send the product back for it to be RMA’d and the fact that you said you gave up on it tells me you’re bullshitting, because again, that’s not how an RMA works 🤡🤡🤡
@@TheLongDon iPhone is a strong as brick, GoPro is plastic, smaller light. Safety is not something you can ignore and not complain about.
Excellent info Hugh, very thorough.
Amazing content, absolutely always amazing restorations I love your videos, being an advocate for right to repair I fully support your fantastic videos!
Another avgeek? 😮
@@jusalii yeah
Love the vids man, never fail to impress. Hopefully Apple will listen to people like you and change too
Lol, Apple? Listen? In another universe.
Great video. Someone once reached out to me through Facebook to return a wallet I dropped. One note: Don't use blur/swirl/pixelate to obscure data, it can be reversed, especially when the font is known. Solid color bars are the way to go.
Thought the same thing. I also feel too much of information about Ian was shared without his consent. He could’ve easily just said the number brought a LinkedIn result, and then he searched the name with the locality to get a newspaper article.
From what he showed I think it would take all of 20 seconds to find that newspaper article about that guy.
@@User-cb4jm So what would you do with the info? Contact him and warn him that Hugh knows about him?
Great content as always Hugh!
Thank you for the helpful information.
Thanks for the info!
On android you can actually put a little contact info form under the clock on the lock screen. I have mine setup with my name and dad's phone number. Makes it super convenient because it's always there when it's locked, so people don't have to know where to look
Also could you imagine Hugh on the other end of your voicemail? I can't think of a safer pair of hands for that device to have landed in
I am absolutely addicted to your videos! I recently purchased a 13 pro for Christmas and am eagerly awaiting my opening of the gift. I really appreciate all the teardowns as it gives me reason to feel okay about the 700~$ USD I spent on a luxury device. It is difficult to see the pros when switching from android with superior specs at a lower price. I have appreciated the pure beauty of the technology of the internals of an iPhone through your superb videography of the devices. Now that I hear that you practice OSINT I am infinitely more interested in your channel !
So watching these videos gave you more of a reason to buy an apple product? Seems quite paradoxical to me...
If in the UK, it might be prudent to hand it into the Network Providers shop / outlet. More often then not they will have other means to contact the customer. Again this can be done by putting the sim into your phone and typing the number into google. The google search results will give you network provider.
Reminds me of an iPhone I bought at a local church's summer tent sale. It was also iCloud locked but I was able to retrieve contact information because I coincidentally had an old prepaid feature phone that was meant for the same cellular carrier. I was able to put in the iPhone's SIM card and use a built in app to look up the associated account information, where I found an email address. After contacting that email to request an unlock or to help return the iPhone, I discovered that it was never meant to be sold and was actually lost by that person's grandmother. I arranged to meet up to return the phone and got reimbursed my purchase price plus a little extra as a thank-you gesture.
Super interesting!! One of the most interesting videos I've seen in awhile!
Great work. This is really awesome. I love it when the society still has generous people. God bless your works man
I hope the owner calls for his phone and it is fully repairable.
Good stuff. Maybe next time after figuring out the contact info handing a lost phone over to the cops for them to contact the owner who can then collect it from them can be a better idea.
This is just in case the phone was a burner used for nefarious purposes or maybe belonged to someone under threat or duress.
The cops (if they're smart & have the tools) will be in a better position to make that assessment just in case.
good job hugh.....useful info.
Some tips for viewers:
If your phone has it, put a contact email in a custom text field on the lock screen, if you can't do that add contact information to the image you use as a lockscreen; Also, if you use a case put a piece of paper with an email written on it inside the case.
who are the psycos not using a case?!
Who else was hoping to see Hugh restore the phone before giving it back to its owner?
me!
me
Yup.
those that do
too expensive tho..
Run over...maybe a few times.🤣
Cheers to your honesty to try and find the owner.
Most wouldn't go through the trouble in the US and would either recycle it or use it for donor parts.
Only exception is if it belongs to a missing person or worse ☠
but that would take someone actively searching for the owner to figure out if it's a crime scene to involve the police.
bruh just yesterday left my phone on the roof of the car somehow didn't blow off in the wind lol
@@AJ-zv9tn if you have a newer iphone, i think 11 and up have magsafe aka a magnet which could of helped it stick to your car lol
My gf found a iPhone and now they taking her to court for stolen goods
@sealifeadventures757 sometimes the best way to deal with a found phone is just to smash that into bits and pieces and throw it away.
@@Victor_Marius definitely know for next time
There's definitely some information here I can use. 👍
My phone has a protective case, and tucked inside that case is a $20 bill with my contact info, and the numbers of a few friends.
I just saw this video for first time today. As I was scrolling through the comments I happened on yours. Wow, I never thought of doing something like this. But I do now. Thanks for your comment and terrific advice to all of us out here. This will be my weekend project. Cheers!
And Apple has removed the sim...good job😎✌️
That phone reminds me of a white iPhone that my nephew lost one night in a car park, in the snow!
It was connected to his car via Bluetooth, so he could still use it while he was in there.
But in the snow and in the dark he just couldn’t find it.
Until the next day.
I think might have looked worse than that one, but it was only lost over night, so no rust!
Interesting what you can do if it’s set up correctly.👍
Oh good that phone suffered definitely a runover so glad it stil somewhat functions
Its the techmoan credits music at the end!
Thanks for the stalking tutorial!
BlackBerry!!
Still In use, wow
Great video as always Hugh!
This makes me SOOO happy to see
Good job. Thanks
This is a great guide!
THANK YOU
I found a newer HTC at the end of my driveway. It had a functional but cracked screen but was locked. I put the sim card in my own phone and came up with the phone number. I called the number and it turned out the guy lived about a mile away. He answered and showed up a few minutes later and that was that.
This is how my brother got his destroyed phone back, in his case he left a business card. He had stopped off the highway at a rest stop and spoken to a customer and his office. After this he left the phone on the roof or the trunk and drove off. It was not until his office called his second phone number that he realized it was gone. Two days later someone dropped it off at his office. All data was recovered.
This was really cool and nice 💕 I hope the iPhone finds its way back home
Ian is lucky you have found his phone
That pains me to watch someone just forget a broken brand new phone
if the battery is completely drained (which is very likely if it was laying beside the road for a few days) then that is causing the "boot loop" the phone will try to boot once it thinks it has enough charge, but will drain it ever so slightly below the threshold and shut down again. best to leave it charging for an hour or so, sometimes longer
Thanks for the share
I had an old flip phone I lost some years back, before smart phones were even a thing. I lost it while running in a park and it was actually ran over though the phones were built so well, and/or the vehicle was light enough no major damage was done other than cracking the screen which still worked. A Good Samaritan turned the phone in to the local PD and I was able to get it back. I used the phone for another year or two before replacing it as the broken screen and phone as a whole still functioned. I do miss some of the conveniences of the older phones like stoppable batteries and seemingly better connectivity with the ability to extend an external antenna.
I love your videos they are so good
Thanks for this video, actually this reminded me to setup my medical info + emergency contacts, should I ever lose my phone or get into hospital unresponsive
Love Your Videos Hugh . Great Video Hugh .
I find Iphones and watches in the ocean metal detecting all the time. I have so much trouble finding the owners of some of the working phones so I really appreciate these tips to help find the owners. Most of the time the screen is locked and needs a password. If I try to many times it has times to try again then locks permanently.
Hey, a question what is dangerous reparation you made?
I’m also trying to track down an owner, mine is from an iPad 5 in great nick, would be a waste to see that going to the recycling, which is what apple suggested.
Amazing tutorial
Hugh Highway Patrol
When details & the finer points count🤔👊
On Android, you can show contact info on your lock screen by typing it in on settings, and if you lose your phone, you can use Find My Device to show contact info and a message if you want to
To show the contact information the iPhone has to be in Lost mode tho-
I once reunited a camera by finding pictures of the owner on it at a convention with their name tag (sheer luck). Another one (Android) I found that turning it off then on would show recent texts on the lock screen for a few seconds, including the phone numbers. Texted one of those people and found the owner.
Were you able to return the phone to its owner? And were you able to fix it? Can you update us what happen to the phone?
Maybe he'll do a part 2. Shame if he left us hanging.
@@gary_rumain_you_peons Another islamophobe lmao 😂😂😂
@@gary_rumain_you_peons Bet you that you watch Apostate Prophet, and David Wood 😂
@@sneghd4372 And a few others. Subbed to over 200 channels.
Worth noting that many android devices (especially Samsung Galaxy devices) have the ability to mirror their display to a HDMI output over USB-C.
So if you have an android with a destroyed display, that otherwise seems to be alive, try connecting it to a HDMI device with an adapter.
Only the ‘S’ range of galaxy phones do this.
Please, you gotta attempt to restore it !!! Either try reflow/reball the motherboard!!
You are really a good guy.
Nice video, what blackberry is that?
Do a update vid if you retune it to the owner
Packing tape on the cracked screen will help with the glass shards.
kalmalnasalnad kalmalnahalnad
yooooo i am in australia too and i use optus usim too
Can we assume Ian never contacted you back regarding the phone? Very kind of you to try so earnestly to return the phone to its owner!
There are two types of people- honest people like HJ and those that would use a search like this for selfish destructive reasons
Create a QR code containing your contact info, set it as your lock screen alongside with the text "If lost, please scan the QR code"
I just found an iPhone in the same condition as your found one, well except the back is also messed up, the local police department (let's say it's in the south Detroit/north Windsor area) told me to keep it or toss it...
This should be super fun times trying to find the owner (sarcasm) especially since it was found in a part of the town where tourist from all over the globe show up
But I'm not Hugh so this is gonna be more of a pain to get it back to the owner, as I can't just not try, since I'd hope someone would do the same for my phone
I read the title as "taking down the owner" which confused me a fuck ton
that would take a horrific turn
Bro, take a lot of love...❤️❤️❤️❤️
Did they respond by the time you uploaded the video?
All I learnt is how amazingly easy it is to find someone if you really want to.
asked my phone who it belongs to, all I got was "interesting question"
Hey Hugh, any chance you have an update as to what happened with the guy? Did he want his iphone back?
In the old Nokia days, you could just read the SIM and look at the stored numbers on it. I think it only stored like 16 numbers or so but enough for your most important contacts you wanted to carry from phone to phone.
I bought a SIM reader off eBay last year after I lost my previous phone. Lost all that data but I had an older phone with another SIM in it. I was able to read it and recover a lot of key numbers. Still lost many but the SIM reader really helped.
Could use it as a backup device too. Which I should do because the stupid new phone I bought has Android 10.0 on it - which has a bug. When you turn the phone off and back on, you lose all the contacts saved to the SIM. They're still there but the silly phone can't read them.
@@gary_rumain_you_peons how not to love the newest technology nowadays 😂
Pretty sure you could have stored more than 16 contacts on a sim card back then. I have a sim card right now but for a few years I don't store anything on it and just use Google cloud for that, but 16 numbers is too low of a limit. I think it's more of a limit of 250 numbers (I think I used to have 130 on my sim)
In my country, it doesn't matter, if you lost your phone, you loose it forever
A story with no end
Good for return it
havebnt even watched the video but I know its good
Probably out of reception area when it happened, thank optus for this
Good to see there's still good people, I was robbed and they took my note 9 and I have no money to buy a new phone.
Sometimes it’s easy to check other people in contacts and call someone in contacts
Tldr: he didn't recover anything or give the phone back
Hey Hugh what android phone is that that looks pretty cool
In android, you can setup a lock screen message to display your info on your lock screen. It will be in your display settings.
It might be boot looping due to damage to the front speaker
if you replaced the screen or disconnected the front speaker it might boot
You can also say, "Hey Siri, return this phone to the owner." Siri will began calling the main contact phone number.
Hope this helps someone!
alternate title: man uses the internet to stalk someone
yeah thats pretty much what OSINT is. but information found through OSINT is public information and OSINT techniques are also public information. its all about being responsible and ethical.
Yes Optus is from Australia and I am guessing that Hugh Jeffery lives here in Australia
Any good person picking up a phone off the street would probably think to return it to the owner. But my first thought is; "This must be a burner phone..." imagine returning it to the owner only to be attacked for tracking them.