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Does anyone have real world experience of them? For instance tracking a push bike
That’s a cracking idea for luggageMy wife is always loosing stuff, so I bought four of them when they came out. She has one in her purse, one on a pair of extremely expensive binoculars, one on her defender keys, one on her pushbike and a spare one. She has not lost anything in over a year now. They have come in handy for locating the purse and keys at home, with latest iPhone they can lead you exactly to the tag within a couple of cm.
The best use we have had from it was I put the spare one in her luggage when she went to USA for a holiday. she flew back from Atlanta to UK but her luggage got mistakenly sent by the airline to Detroit instead. When questioning where her luggage was she could demonstrate to the airline exactly where in the world it had been sent too. When back in UK the luggage was showing in Detroit airport, next day it was at Heathrow, and could be tracked all the way home on route until delivered to us courtesy of the airline.
That’s a cracking idea for luggage
Iv never lost any but have heard the horror stories of people going away and not having anything for a week
Interesting, so theres no gps or mobile signal tech in them?It is a robust and fairly sneaky technology. My understanding is that ALL iPhone devices are basically snitches. Even if a phone is powered off it will respond to a Bluetooth ping from ANY other iPhone (or one assumes, tracking device). The upshot is that any tracking device can report its position by piggy backing off any and all other connected devices it gets near to.
Once a tracker has been identified and recorded by <a random phone> next time that device is on a network, it will report the last known position of the tracker using it's own position as a proximity guide. Clever stuff really so anything could potentially be tracked anywhere there's other iPhones, networks etc.
Interesting, so theres no gps or mobile signal tech in them?
Do android devices do the same?...
Im not so sure its a benefit! To have excessive tracking just to stop the odd person loosing their keys.Definitely one benefit of Apple's stranglehold on the market.
I generally keep bluetooth and gps disabled when Im not using them, much longer battery life and less tracking.. both good reasons!
Was thinking of that on the quad! Though Im sure I could hide one easily enough!There’s a thread on the stalking directory that the apple air tags get mentioned in. The guy puts them in waterproof containers and drops then into his mobile fuel tanks. He had a lot of bother with these being nicked, he says now when one goes he and the police can go straight to it. Has them on his dogs too. Recons they work really well
Perhaps but as I dont use fruit themed devicesHate to break this to you but you can’t switch off Bluetooth on these security enabled devices. It remains active at low level at all times.
Told you it was sneaky.
Was thinking of that on the quad! Though Im sure I could hide one easily enough!
May I ask, do these Air tags only work with the Latest iphones?My wife is always loosing stuff, so I bought four of them when they came out. She has one in her purse, one on a pair of extremely expensive binoculars, one on her defender keys, one on her pushbike and a spare one. She has not lost anything in over a year now. They have come in handy for locating the purse and keys at home, with latest iPhone they can lead you exactly to the tag within a couple of cm.
The best use we have had from it was I put the spare one in her luggage when she went to USA for a holiday. she flew back from Atlanta to UK but her luggage got mistakenly sent by the airline to Detroit instead. When questioning where her luggage was she could demonstrate to the airline exactly where in the world it had been sent too. When back in UK the luggage was showing in Detroit airport, next day it was at Heathrow, and could be tracked all the way home on route until delivered to us courtesy of the airline.