Last weekend the Spanish Grand Prix was held at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalonia and one of the drivers said, four-time Formula 1 world champion Sebastian Vettelwas robbed Monday after the race. Far from being left behind, the pilot tried to chase down the thieves using a scooter and the Search app on his iPhone. Find AirPods he carries in his backpack.

Sebastian Vettel was in Barcelona with his family last Monday morning at 8:15 am driving his Aston Martin through central Barcelona and stopped in front of a hotel and got out of the car. That moment some thieves broke into the car and stole a backpack holding different personal objects.

The thieves quickly fled the scene and Vettel, instead of notifying the police, got on an electric scooter to find them. The most curious thing is that the world champion, who knows that his AirPods are in his backpack, used the Find My iPhone app to find and track thieves From the center of Ciudad Condal.

Sebastian Vettel tracks down thieves by locating his AirPods with the Find My iPhone app

A chase without a happy ending

The Catalan police unit Mossos d’Esquadra was notified and accompanied the pilot, who was asked to end the search and file a complaint with the police station. Again, Sebastian Vettel didn’t want to give up and kept looking for the thieves. Because he can track them in real time, thanks to his AirPods and the Search app on his iPhone.

Finally, the iPhone app took Sebastian Vettel to a millinery in a street in the Barceloneta district. He found his AirPods in a vase of flowers it was on display. Clearly the thieves opened the backpack and, knowing that the AirPods were traceable, they hid it so that they could not be tracked.

Lost Mode is required to find missing AirPods

For now The police did not find the thieves.. Vettel stated that he could not see the thieves, but that there were layers of security in the hotel where he stopped for a moment so that their identities could be identified. The stolen backpack contained his driver’s license in addition to the AirPods. your driver’s license, your passport and a few credit cards they were cancelled.

We’ll see if the police finally manage to identify the thieves. Yet it is clear that Apple’s Search app can be very usefulIt was used even in the middle of the war in Ukraine.