Still, no one has said if they are going to fix the issue, or at the very least, look into the matter. Someone called back, so we know they are aware of the incident. That woman later sued the lead detective.ĪBC13 has tried contacting the software giant since Tuesday. Denver officers believed she had stolen guns connected to a car theft after tracking a stolen iPhone to her address using the Find My app. In 2021, body camera footage captured a Denver police SWAT team raiding the home of a 77-year-old woman in Colorado over a false ping on the app. There have been other high-profile device pinging errors elsewhere in the country, with at least one that brought armored vehicles to a neighborhood. You are putting innocent lives at risk," he said. "I would ask them to come out and see what they can do. Mine is criminal and keeping our public safe here in Fort Bend County." Fagan added that Apple doing nothing puts a family's safety in jeopardy. "Apple needs to do more about this," Fagan said. The Texas resident tells KTRK that his biggest concern was " someone coming to the house potentially with a weapon."Īnd the same station reports that local sheriff Eric Fagan "said he was so shocked and concerned that he informed his patrol units and dispatchers, just in case anyone called about the address." " had to wake up and go answer the door and explain to them that I didn't have their device, and people don't tend to believe you," the dad of two told the outlet. Scott Schuster told the local news station KTRK that he's been visited by close to a dozen irate people over the past few years, telling him that their missing phone had last pinged at his address. An anonymous reader shares a report from the New York Post:Ī supposed glitch in the popular "Find My iPhone" app has been directing random strangers to the home of an unsuspecting Texas dad at all hours of the day, falsely accusing him of stealing their electronic devices.
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