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Liberal In Texas

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13. According to the Apple ad...

Reply to Swede (Original post)

Sun Dec 19, 2021, 03:58 PM

Dec 2021

AirTag is designed to discourage unwanted tracking. If someone else’s AirTag finds its way into your stuff, your iPhone will notice it’s traveling with you and send you an alert. After a while, if you still haven’t found it, the AirTag will start playing a sound to let you know it’s there.

Of course, if you happen to be with a friend who has an AirTag, or on a train with a whole bunch of people with AirTag, don’t worry. These alerts are triggered only when an AirTag is separated from its owner.

Which is fine, I guess, if you have an IPhone AND have the app. Not much good for Android users. Or people without smart phones period.

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Heads up tweet - Someone attached a tracking device to a woman's car. [View all] Swede Dec 2021 OP

Yikes! hlthe2b Dec 2021 #1

Why? The tracker alerted her to the fact she was being tracked. 3Hotdogs Dec 2021 #4

WHy? Because the tracker detecter would tell her she was being tracked... hlthe2b Dec 2021 #5

Read the article. Her cell phone told her she was being tracked. 3Hotdogs Dec 2021 #15

I have a tracker like that on my keys. It requires an app before it tells you there are trackers hlthe2b Dec 2021 #16

They see a nice car out and about they want to steal and they attach a tracking device to it so applegrove Dec 2021 #2

Or worse, stalk this woman. Swede Dec 2021 #3

The manufacturers and sellers should be liable. Apple, Amazon and their Chinese lead manufacturers Tetrachloride Dec 2021 #6

JHC! Nt Baked Potato Dec 2021 #7

So why do these devices exist? 2naSalit Dec 2021 #8

I have one in my suitcase and one in my car. mainer Dec 2021 #9

And already they have become... 2naSalit Dec 2021 #10

Unfortunately, like a good sharp knife, they're a tool mainer Dec 2021 #11

So it appears. 2naSalit Dec 2021 #12

According to the Apple ad... Liberal In Texas Dec 2021 #13

Haven't tracked this to the source yet - Ms. Toad Dec 2021 #14

Thank you. nt BlackSkimmer Dec 2021 #18

More of these incidents. Swede Dec 2021 #17