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Apple Explains How to Stay Safe With AirTag and More in Personal Safety Guide
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1. Have a 2TB individual plan.
2. Get an Apple One plan that comes with 2TB.
They stack, from what I've read.
This might be a silly question, but what protections does an Android user have from being stalked with an AirTag?
Thank you! Bit pricy, but good to know!
You can now get up to 4 TB of iCloud storage - 9to5Mac
With the current iCloud plans, the maximum tier is 2 TB. Although that’s a lot of storage, some iPhone users...9to5mac.com
Yea, I even tried to delete and re-add it — same crap) It's not that big of a deal, but my wife shakes her head in disapproval when it does this
No previous system has had the widespread support find my has with all the apple devices out there. Other systems haven’t been reliable enough to be a problem. And I suppose cellular gps trackers are expensive enough to prevent them from being a nuisance.
If you care about privacy, you probably shouldn't be using Air Tags at all. Heck, you probably shouldn't be using a smart phone either.
Especially when you use Family Sharing, where you can see your family's other devices... why not the AirTags too?
I kind of feel like this would be less of a problem if they'd spend less time talking about it...
I bet Samsung and Google (so everyone can know where you lost your car fob) copy. Planet Meta will create an EMP device (electro magnetic pulse) to nuke / disable the AirTags and Spot The Dog as I call Spotify will publicly protest that Apple is purposely preventing Bluetooth pings on their upcoming smart speaker.
You might be interested in this case study. It's an easy one to replicate if you want to try it for yourself.
With Apple's "Identify found item" and a semi-crowded location (or next to a lone traveller) I found the person next to me had a set of AirPod Max headphones in his carry on bag while I was easily 6-8 feet away. In fact, it was quite useful locating any nearby Apple devices, family or not.
That study came to the same conclusion I did. It only works well as a pet tracker in a crowded city full of iPhones, which is where my dog and I are half of the time, and it was purchased for that use case. Even in more rural areas I tested it once similar to that study, it did ping once in 45 minutes, far better than nothing.
I placed one AirTag inside each piece of luggage during my last family trip. It worked perfectly. I could see all the time where the bags were until they were loaded on the plane. When we got to our destination I turned my iPhone and could see that all bags had made. It adds a peace of mind since I don't trust airlines to handle my bags.
This is correct. I figured this out the hard way. Had been paying for iCloud and then signed up for AppleOne assuming it would override the other. It doesn’t.
At least these “stalking tools” can be uncovered. There are a myriad of them that can’t.
So I can't stalk myself? I don't really understand the benefit of this behavior.
If you often have the AirTag near your own phone, it won't beep unnecessarily.
If you sneak the AirTag into someone else's bag, it will start beeping after a few days, letting the bag owner know you're stalking them.
But if I leave it in my own car or anywhere else for a long time separate from my phone, why does it start beeping about a minute after I come back to my car and start driving? If it’s with the owner’s phone, there’s no reason to make a sound that I can think of.