AirTag beeping and wasting battery

[harrisonjr98]

I know airtags beep when they're away from their owner's phone as an anti-stalking measure, but mine are beeping and draining battery during what I can only imagine is a pretty common use case. I have an airtag on an item that I typically leave at the office. About half the days I return in the morning, it's been beeping for god knows how long. ????

I thought the beeping was only supposed to happen if the AirTag was moving, for one.

I also don't feel like this use case is that odd/extreme that I should be experiencing a major flaw in the product. Is this a bug, and if so, has there been any discussion of a fix timeline? I'd rather not reduce my battery life to like a month instead of a year because the tag can't keep quiet. Oh, and I'd rather not announce my valuable item to the world either....

this is a frustrating flaw to run into, made worse by the fact that apple doesn't allow the user to set any parameters around when the tag should beep, etc.

 

[waw74]

there have been a couple of other reports of the same thing,

AirTags start beeping after few hours, not 3+ days

So after working out in the gym I came back to my locker to find my AirTags on my keys beeping. Why? The gym is in the basement of an old building so it has thick walls and it was not connected to my iPhone while I was working out. I was away from the locker for just two and a half hours. I...

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might want to try removing and re-adding the airtag, might help, but shouldn't hurt
or rebooting it by taking the battery out for a few seconds.