If the AirTag doesn’t re-tether to the owner’s iOS device after three days, the tracker will start to make a noise. For example, the company does not store location data, and it will send an alert to an iOS device user if an AirTag appears to be following them when its owner is not around. While AirTags are explicitly intended for items only, Apple has added safeguards to cut down on unwanted tracking. Location trackers aren’t new - there are similar products from Samsung, Sony and Tile - but AirTags’ powerful Ultra Wideband technology chip allows it to more accurately determine the location and enables precise augmented reality directional arrows that populate on the iPhone or iPad’s screen.Ī key ring containing an AirTag attached to a book bag in Sydney, Australia.
Apple tiles for keys Bluetooth#
(AAPL) launched $29 Tile-like Bluetooth locators that attach to and help you find items such as keys, wallets, laptops or your car, giving nearly anything a digital footprint. After all, I knew the moment he arrived at school and when he got back on the bus to head home. Still, my experiment highlighted how easily these trackers could be used to track another person. Apple later told me the delay was due to the tracker needing to communicate with Bluetooth on other iOS devices in the Find My network along the bus route before the AirTag’s location could be updated to iCloud and the app. Relieved, I decided more information in this case was worse I’d go back to just tracking my keys. Is there an issue with the app? After another 10 minutes, my heart started to race still nothing.įinally, the tracker was detected four miles away in front of his school. Traffic, maybe? Five more minutes passed with no update. The item was “last detected” seven minutes ago at a busy intersection less than a mile away. I watched on my iPhone’s Find My app as the bus stopped at a light a few blocks down from our street.īut then the tiny “key” icon on the app stopped moving. I clipped a keychain with one of Apple’s tiny new Bluetooth trackers, AirTags, onto my son’s book bag and waved goodbye to him on the school bus.
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