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AirTag barely functioning in iOS 26

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ignatius345

macrumors G3
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Aug 20, 2015
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Ever since updating to iOS 26, local finding of AirTags is not working at all for me. Here's what I see with a brand new AirTag, standing literally right next to the item. It's the same with the other AirTag I own. I can see them on the map, I can make them play alerts, but this feature is broken like 90% of the time. I had it work briefly after restarting the phone, but it keeps going back to this later:

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erihp said:
Rebooted phone?
Power cycled Airtag?
Does another device not on 26 work?
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Yea man. I tried moving to a different location. I was also, as I said, standing literally right next to the item, and see this with two separate AirTags, one of them brand new. Also restarted the phone, as I also said above.
 
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Before updating to IOS26 I had my wallet taken with an AirTag in. Nearly caught up to the thief by tracking it, before he/she dumped it. So I had to buy a new wallet which happened to have RFID card protection. A combination of IOS26 and RFID means the AirTag in the wallet is really useless!!
 
GibberingRich said:
Before updating to IOS26 I had my wallet taken with an AirTag in. Nearly caught up to the thief by tracking it, before he/she dumped it. So I had to buy a new wallet which happened to have RFID card protection. A combination of IOS26 and RFID means the AirTag in the wallet is really useless!!
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Sounds like you bought the wrong wallet. RF blocking wallets block RF.

Anecdotal, but I have had a spare/test device running iOS 26 on the dev beta branch since the beginning and have not experienced any issues with AirTags.
 
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