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I use AirPods Pro but an Android phone. My girlfriend and friends we hung out with would complain about these, so I eventually found a way to turn off "Find my device" on the AirPods by connecting them to my iPad. I now can't track them but also people aren't mad at me for "tracking" them.

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Interesting. I've had Apple users recommend AirPods to me before, but I don't own any Apple devices so I already had a feeling it wouldn't work out. Would be insane if they would constantly be generating alerts on others their iPhones.

I think if you use them out of the box, they won't generate the alerts. If I understand Apple's data model correctly, once I paired them to my iPad for the first time, they were enrolled to my iCloud account, and then the tracking system was enabled.

So I'm screwed if an iPhone user ever pairs with my headphones, i.e. when I lend them to them?

Ew, why would you lend in-ear headphones to anyone?

Just wondering if I understand the Apple ecosystem correctly.

Huh, good point that I hadn’t considered.

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