A stolen Mammotion mower: what owners did to get one back, and why many now add a tracker

What happened

On 18 September 2026 an owner posted that a man had taken the mower from the lawn in daylight, and that its location was not showing in the app¹. The next day a second owner posted that a car had pulled up and a man had taken the mower from their front yard; that mower did not have the 4G option⁵.

What got a mower back

• The mowing job resuming. The first owner's mower was found because someone pressed buttons on it, and the app sent a notification that the job was resuming. The owner checked the location, and their partner drove past to look¹.
• A tracker. An owner whose mower carried an AirTag showed the police its location in the Find My app, gave them the price, and had the mower back the same day. Two people were arrested about two months later, from doorbell and security footage².
• The thief switching it on. An owner of a LUBA 2 says it was recovered because the thief turned it on and it got a GPS fix⁴.

What did not help

• Calling Mammotion. The first owner was told nothing could be done other than a police report³.
• The mower's own location. Owners disagree on how reliably it reports. In the first thread an owner says it gives no location about half the time, even in their own backyard⁹. In the second, an owner says that even with 4G it fails to connect when the mower resumes from sleep⁶. The second owner also asked whether Mammotion alerts you if someone links the mower to another account, and was told it does not at present⁵. In a different thread a Mammotion staff account said each device can be bound to only one account at a time, that its location refreshes in the app once the mower is powered back on, and that nobody else can use it without the owner's authorization; for real-time location it suggested a tracker such as an AirTag¹³.

Where owners put a tracker

• LUBA mini 2. One owner says there is a recess under the white cap that surrounds the rain sensor and part of the STOP button, where an AirTag fits⁷. Another owner says the mini 2 has no slot at all, that its SIM is an eSIM, and that anything fitted to the shell could interfere with the vision system⁸. A Mammotion staff account told another owner in the stolen-mower thread that on the Mini 2 you can open the top shell and put an AirTag in the recess next to the 4G module¹². The staff tip does not say whether that is the same recess as the one under the white cap, and the second owner says there is no slot at all, so look inside your own mower before you glue or drill anything.
• Other models. One owner has two trackers, one under the hood in a small round spot and one in the sealed battery area¹⁰. Another bought a waterproof case and glued it to the underside of the deck¹¹. These are individual choices, not anything Mammotion documents.