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/r/AirTag
Is there a difference between how far an AirTag can be detected and tracked? From what I understand it uses both bluetooth and UWB which has a shorter range. Does it mean it can be detected have its position updated at a further distance than the precision tracking using UWB?
Have an airtag in my car, had it getting work done at a dealer, car was with them overnight, woke up one morning and checked the airtag, the car was reported 10 miles away from the dealer in a place I've never been to. 6 minutes later I check again and the location is back at the dealer, not enough time to drive back.
Trying to understand if this is a mistake from Apple or was it correct and some other weirdness is going on? Anyone else had wrong locations for airtags, is it a thing I need to watch out for?
Is there a trick to replacing an AirTag battery? My first one, the original, lasted about a year, which is as advertised. I replaced it, but now I get warnings all the time and wonder if there's a trick to screwing it in better or what might be happening? It just never seems to screw back in and click or something.
Any ideas?
I received a notification that an Apple AirTag has been following me. It was (and still is) detected in my home as well as a random building that I drove past during the day, but on destinations in between (and there were quite a few all around the city)
I went for another drive to confirm it's not on my car and poked around my groceries and didn't find / hear anything. It's only able to connect from my home and I can't hear anything when it says 'Playing sound'.
I used an app called 'AirGuard' to see where the signal is strongest, and I suspect that it's coming from my neighbour. There's a language barrier and they're relatively anti-social, which makes it very difficult to ask them about it.
Is it possible that the midday detection was a false alarm? The weather was quite bad today, perhaps this interfered with the detection?
I received a notification that an Apple AirTag has been following me. It was (and still is) detected in my home as well as a random building that I drove past during the day, but on destinations in between (and there were quite a few all around the city)
I went for another drive to confirm it's not on my clothes and poked around my groceries and didn't find / hear anything. It's only able to connect from my home and I can't hear anything when it says 'Playing sound'.
I used an app called 'AirGuard' to see where the signal is strongest, and I suspect that it's coming from my neighbour. There's a language barrier and they're relatively anti-social, which makes it very difficult to ask them about it.
Is it possible that the midday detection was a false alarm? The weather was quite bad today, perhaps this interfered with the detection?
I was driving home from work today on the 401 stuck in traffic and got a notification that an air tag was following me 20 minutes in my drive home. I click the notification and saw that it was the same route I was taking but didnt track the full route also when I pressed to her the sound I couldn’t connect to it. I didn’t go home and parked in a plaza and got my fiancé to help me out and we look everywhere but found nothing. We also could no longer connect to the sound. Should I be worried about this?
Hi People,
I have downloaded an app called "AirGuard" and I got this result when I scanned for devices
I have an ex who used to mess with my head with these types of things and he knows I am not tech savvy, he was abusive mentally and physically, I don't want to be hypervijulent
Could someone give any advice on this please?
Appreciated and thank you in advance
I’m in love just arribe my card tag 🏷️🥰
I simply lose a lot of things 😅
I'm looking for an Airtag case that has a thin braided cord/string type loop on it for attaching to the Airpod pro 2 case or anything else with that style eyelet hole. Rather than use an Airpod case with a built in Airtag holder.
Does such a thing exist?
Why don't they make theses damn things easier to understand?
So with numbers that high am I being tracked?
And why can't I ever locate the device? It's always out of range.
So I wanted to get some new airtags for my cats, they arrived tonight so I decided to register them, I set the airtag up and walk around the house with it, I think it's decently accurate then I set it down and sit on my couch and see it's moving by itself, it even moved to show it's out of the house when it was just on my dinner table, we hadn't put them on the cats yet. Also I watched a video about airtags to see how accurate they were and there was some bit in the video where the finding mode had some thing where it showed how close your phone was getting in feet so you could find an exact location easily. The only thing I get is the google maps birds eye view directions with a rough area the air tag is in, the same map it was moving by itself, how do I go to the mode where I track it down by the exact feet?
I’m in the process of moving into a new house. Today I used my girlfriend’s car to move some stuff from my old place to our new place. At around 11:40pm I received a notification on my phone that says “AirTag found moving with you”. I’m find my iPhone it shows my old address and my new address with a line drawn in between them.
Neither my girlfriend or I have AirTags do it couldn’t be from one of us. I cautiously checked my girlfriend’s car and inside our new house for the AirTag. Whenever I tap “Play Sound”, it says “AirTag not reachable, move around to connect.”
Should we be concerned? Does anybody have an explanation for what might be happening? Any tips on steps I should take?
I was living and house sitting/caretaking in Hawaii and I got a a few AirTags for keys and other objects that the dogs on the property liked to take off with, when I returned to the mainland I was no longer using them so I unregistered them from my iCloud account, since then I didn’t think to remove the batteries, they would make noise every once in a while and I’d ignore them, yesterday I started the process of moving states, I hired a moving company to help me load a U-Haul. I didn’t notice that I had “air tag moving with you” notification until this morning and after driving four hours the night before. The problem is I’m not sure if the movers activated my old air tags and are tracking me, or if they are just giving me notifications bc they have been with me. They are loaded in what I think is the deepest part of the truck and I can’t see or hear them, nor have the time to unload the truck and look for them. But this morning I drove and hour to see if I would get another notification and nothing, until I was another 6 hrs into my drive and stopped for gas and I got another notification saying that they were moving with me…. Not sure if I’m being stalked or if they can send out the notifications with out being registered to an iCloud account. Any help or advise would be greatly appreciated.
I am an uber driver and I found one of these in the backseat of my car , really sus. I downloaded a couple of airtag scanner apps and they didn't work. what should I do?
I had a set of 4 AirTags but then bought 4 more for an international trip for our luggage. But now I want to repurpose them for when I’m not traveling.
I already have AirTags on my keys, my backpack, in my car, wife’s car (tied to her account), dog collar, wife’s keys (tied to her account). That’s 6.
No need for phones, tablets, laptops, since they’re already Apple products. No kids yet so no stroller or teddy bears. We both use thin wallets so don’t want to add bulk, maybe if Apple comes out with card sized ones…
We don’t ride bikes regularly. Not in a bike friendly area so they wouldn’t ever be locked in public.
I have 2 extra. What kinds of things should I stick them in?
I keep getting a notification that there is a AirTag found moving with you. When I click it it gives me the last 4 digits of the phone number and it’s literally my number. Why does this happen
Hi, i’m reaching out here because my girlfriend had the notification that an AirTag was seen with her. (we nor her family or friends own an AirTag) My girlfriend did her research and she found out that if you get this notification it’s possible that your are being tracked. She read up that it’s commonly used around stalkers or thieves/robbers to locate where you are.
She has not been able to find the tracker, because we realized to turn it off you have to locate the tracker. The police has not been of any assistance (we live in the Netherlands). Only if someone threatened her they could help.
I tried to look for solutions on this subreddit where we found some tips that could help. Sadly none of them did We tried to download the Air Guard app, (which was suggested on this subreddit) but it’s not available in our country. We also tried to see if we could find any information on the apple support website. And unfortunately nothing helped
I’m writing my messages here to seek out for any further advice and anything else we can do?
We agreed that my girlfriend is not allowed to go outside by herself and that she has to lock all her doors.
All help is appreciated.
I am getting AirTag notifications like 4-5 days apart saying an AirTag is detected or moving with me.. could it be false alarm.. I don’t own one and can’t find one around me either
What if someone took apart an airtag, and put the insides in a wallet sized card! It should be possible right? That would sell like crazy right?
So I want to send an AirTag to my bf who’s in the uk via a package which would take a full week. But I read that eventually if not connected, after some time the AirTag shuts off. How long will it take to shut off? Also when it shuts off, and comes back on will it pair to his phone or will it still remember mine? We are trying to keep up w each others location for times when our phones die etc.
Hi all,
I just purchased some AirTags. On the website of Apple it states it has precision finding as well as routes to the object.
Precision finding is working and is displayed in the “find my”-app. However, if I open the “find my”-app I can’t seem to click on a button that will make a route for me to the AirTag (in Apple Maps or Google maps). This does work for other Apple devices like my MacBook etc.
I get that precision finding is better than route to, but nevertheless I would like to have that option. Am I missing something?
Please see screenshot for explanation that “route to” button is missing: https://i.imgur.com/vEOdCEm.jpg
Guys did anyone ever ordered Airtag from China (Alibaba), and what is experience with them?
I've been using an AirTag to monitor a international household goods shipment. Worked great the first 12 days with at least six updates since it was packed up May 3rd. But two days ago it reverted back to "last seen May 3rd" listed at my home before it left. Seems like a glitch with the Apple cloud losing track of past updates and not so much a problem with the AirTag.
Has anyone else experienced something like this?
Hi, I keep an AirTag on my keys. For some reason today I got the standard “you left your keys behind” notification. But my keys were in my pocket, as was my phone. …. Just a random glitch? Anything to be concerned about? Need replacement? Not sure what to make of it.