iPhone users automatically receive a push notification if an unknown Airtag has been “following” them, without its owner, for a random time between 8 and 24 hours.
Wouldn't this be a pain in the ass if you took a long flight and happened to sit near an air tag in cargo while its owner was on the other end of the plane?
My dad has many high end game/trail cameras. One of his went missing, so he checked the others and found clear as day video of the neighbor trespassing and stealing it.
Took it to the cops, and they acted annoyed and told him to just sue. I was in disbelief.
That said, I'm glad the cop didn't arrest the neighbor. Unless you have footage of the heighbor removing the camera, it's not cut and dry.
I would take the neighbor to small chains court, but then you have to live next to guy with a grudge? A guy with a grudge can make your life miserable.
>> One of his went missing, so he checked the others and found clear as day video of the neighbor trespassing and stealing it.
That's exactly what the OP said they had.
Very Apple of Apple. Terrible design.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212227
To disable the AirTag and stop sharing your location, tap Instructions to Disable AirTag and follow the onscreen steps.
In any case there is an option to disable the alerts for that AirTag when you receive the notification.
I believe the reason this happens at the end of a walk is because it specifically fires off when you enter your own home (either geofence of detection of your home WiFi or something). So it's probably accumulating throughout the day, then we go out, come back, and it shows it.
To this day she is waiting to get any news from it, case closed and archived.
> An AirTag will beep at a random time between eight and 24 hours if it is away from its owner's iPhone.
The airtags are by far the best tracking devices ever created and can let you locate your tag with tenth of a metre accuracy on a coin cell battery that lasts 1 year.
They get smaller and better the more you pay. Gps cell trackers are cheap and prolific
Seems to require the extended battery if you want 6 months life and that, as best I can tell, is another $60 and HUGE because it's also a waterproof box with magnet. Plus there's $20 a month cellular fees on top.
I've dealt with cops when helping a friend who was being harassed (literal 100s of calls/texts a day from known burner apps) as well as physical damage to his car. The police did nothing at all, even with a step-by-step guide provided by said burner number apps for law enforcement (abuse@$burnerAppCompany.com). In the end we had to keep pressing the various app's support until they would blacklist my friends number completely from their app network. It was a huge PITA and made my friend's phone almost unusable (they would rotate numbers if he blocked them). Oh, and we knew exactly who was responsible, this wasn't even a "here is a lat/long" situation. The police are fucking worthless for things like this and from what I've heard from friends about their experience with stolen property they are useless on that front as well.
I can understand why they would be hesitant when the find my data is not pin point accurate.