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I lost my Pixel Watch 5 at airport security and recovered it thanks to one setting

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Published Oct 24, 2026, 7:30 AM EDT

Rita is a Senior Features Editor at Android Police. Her love story with Android started in 2010 and has been going stronger with every update, device, tip, app, and game. She's a huge Pixel fan and has spent an inordinate amount of time using and testing Google's ecosystem, apps, and services.

She lives in France, speaks more than three languages, follows Real Madrid, and spends any free time she has traveling. Once upon a time, she was a pharmacist as well.

I seem to have a thing for airports and lost or mismanaged items. Last year, my luggage and that of a dozen other passengers was forgotten right outside the plane in Athens, and I used the Pebblebee Google-compatible tracker inside it to inform airport officials of its location and get it quickly delivered, instead of making claims and waiting for days to hear back.

A couple of days ago, I had another mishap when flying back from Madrid.…

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