Movies and popular sayings have taught us that there’s always something crazy and fun going on in Las Vegas, but in real life, some people have experiences they don’t want to have. And although the following is one of them, Chance Miller, author of 9to5mac, decided to share it because of the discovery it contains. Miller shared The iPad Pro trip you forgot in your Las Vegas hotel room last November.

Miller used the Search app as recommended by Apple, and while it worked, the last place he wanted to see was not what he expected.

Las Vegas via China in Oklahoma

As Miller recounts, she traveled to Las Vegas to see Adele’s opening weekend show at Caesar’s Palace in November 2022. Just that weekend as I was boarding the plane to Dallas on Sunday, Leaning on its seat to pull the 11-inch iPad Pro out of its backpack and catch some episodes of Survivor. the problem was It wasn’t an iPad Pro.

When the plane is about to take off, waited the next day to call the hotel at Circa Resort and Casino, and ask about the last device you saw on your nightstand. He even sent a message to someone there. Either way, I’ve noticed that no one in my hotel room can find an iPad Pro, but they said they would contact me immediately if they saw the space gray iPad Pro in a green case.had identified it as his own.

Meanwhile You could see it in Apple’s Find app, even though the iPad Pro was disabled., its last known location was Circa on Fremont Street at 5 am on November 20. He assumed the iPad was idle since he had fallen asleep the night before as he hadn’t plugged it in to charge, as he had a powerful portable battery to use for charging while watching Survivor on the plane.

Miller lost his iPad at the Circa Hotel in Las Vegas.

The next step was: enable in search, “Notify when found” and “Mark as lost” options. Miller also set up a message with contact information to appear on the lock screen as soon as the iPad Pro is turned on and connected to Wi-Fi. But none of that came to fruition, and news of the iPad came three months later.

Miller Received an email from Apple’s Find My serviceRequires a password through the Activation Lock feature.

For your security, Activation Lock requires your Apple ID and password or device passcode before anyone can reactivate and use your device. It is automatically activated when you enable Activation Lock. If you’re setting up this device, simply enter your Apple ID and password in the fields provided.

After receiving this email, it went to Search to check if my iPad’s location was updated. Now I was in Oklahoma City at a place called “BuyBack Solutions”, which is a kind of “cell phone recycling” company. Taking advantage of the iPad Pro’s brief return online on Find My, Miller immediately marked it as missing and set up a private message again.

When I called the store and explained the situation, he was told. BuyBack Solutions “buy electronics by the pound” at several different hotels. And they confirmed that Circa is one of the hotels they are associated with. In fact, they work with all the hotels owned by Derek Stevens: Circa, Golden Gate, and The D.

In the same call, the BuyBack Solutions employee told him to send him an email with some details about my iPad: serial number, color, model number and storage capacity. With this information, I was told that BuyBack Solutions would try to locate the iPad. But they never contacted him again.

The lawsuit confirms that stolen iPads that cannot be unlocked end up in places that sell them “for parts.”

A month and a half later, the device was back online in Find: it was now in China. I looked at the address and saw that it was linked to some kind of obscure “Hong Kong Production Building”.

When Miller realized that BuyBack Solutions had permanently locked the device, they sold it “for the piece” to another company, And so it ended in China. Whoever bought the device probably broke it and sold it for parts.

Although he admits Apple’s Search platform has done everything it needs to do in the process to protect your personal information. As it has worked in many other situations, falling into the hands of trusted people was decisive in never seeing your iPad again.