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This has not been my experience. I’ve had multiple AirTags notify me multiple times over a period of months that I needed to change the batteries.

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So last week my keys AirTag was dead, and I checked my notifications and I only received one notification in October that it had a low battery, but to be fair, I don't know exactly when it died between October and last week.

Maybe my batteries die completely before the second notification triggers.

How do you check historic notifications?

I never dismiss them, so there's a huge pile on my phone.

Notifications can be collapsed!

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/cloudkit/cksubscri...

My ADHD brain would fall apart.

Maybe they need an option for people like you called "smoke detector mode" where it starts to annoyingly beep once a minute.

Dear god please no. The kind of people who don't notice empty batteries also don't notice the annoying beeps. But I do.

Apartment living can be hell when there are neighbours who don't replace their smoke detector batteries. I can't fathom how people can sleep through this loud annoying chirp every thirty seconds. I certainly find it hard and my apartment is far enough away that it's hard to determine where exactly the chirp is coming from.

The thought of smoke-detector like beeping of airtags all over the place gives me the worst kind of creeps. Please don't give them ideas! Please!

That's easy to fix. Just carry a pocket full of 2032s, and offer to swap out the beeping tags near you. For a small nominal fee, of course. Or just for free for the sake of humanity or just your own sanity.

Haha, sure. Or full vigilante style

I take ownership of the fact that I didn't change the battery when prompted. I only stated that in my experience it's a single notification vs the other folks saying they get notified multiple times.

Maybe you only get a second notification if you dismiss the first?

That's a fair point. I'll try to remember to dismiss next time and see.

maybe the "like you" was a little more pointed than intended but it was meant more as the royal you.

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