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My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”

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Waterluvian · 1786041461 · focus · HN ↗
Is "snatching a phone and running off" a common enough problem in some regions that this is worth having? Or is this a feature chasing after fears of the bogeyman, leading to concrete inconveniences like this?
1. mattlondon · 1786044922 · focus · HN ↗
  Massive in London.
  1. rsynnott · 1786050080 · focus · HN ↗
    Eh, it certainly gets a lot of _attention_, and London is very, very big, so the absolute numbers are impressive-looking. The chances of it actually happening to any given person are extremely low, though.
    gengelbro · 1786059173 · focus · HN ↗
    Ha. I was in London for work and had my phone snatched on a work trip the second day. Kings Cross area. Massive pain to get insurance to figure it out and I had to buy a burner.
    Two guys hopped a wide sidewalk, never stopped and were back into traffic in an instant.
    Everyone gave me the "you should't have been dressed that way" response. Police did nothing dispite certainly plenty of evidence (video, from apple, etc. etc).

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