If someone loses their iPhone in the greater Houston area, it’s not uncommon for them to end up showing up at Scott Schuster’s house hoping to get it back.
This resident of the city’s Richmond neighborhood says he doesn’t have it: not your iPhone, not anyone else’s. But that fact hasn’t stopped Apple’s Search app from directing large numbers of strangers to your door for years.
A bug in the Search app has created big problems for Schuster. People hunting for their missing iPhones and trying to use Search to locate them have been, time and time again, mistakenly directed to the software engineer’s home since he first moved there in 2018.
“There are a lot of irrational people if they are angry, drunk, had a rough night and lost their phone and thought it was stolen”Schuster said. Her biggest concern for him? “Someone coming to your house with a gun”Explain.
So far, luckily, that hasn’t happened. But still, doorbell camera recordings show several frustrated strangers on the driveway of Schuster’s home asking about his devices.
Although nothing has been proven yet, the engineer has his own theory as to why his address is listed as the “warehouse” for the lost smartphones.
Your house was a model home for your neighborhood when it was first built. Apple Maps seems to have assigned all the houses in the neighborhood to a single shared address: Schuster’s. No matter where a phone is within the extent of your suburban region, Apple’s Find My app suggests that it’s at their house.
Schuster has contacted Apple support through multiple avenues to try to resolve the mysterious issue. At the moment, the company has not solved it
