I feel this is not really a well thought through product and ultimately wont work well in any direction but with certain potential for being abused.
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How to Disable an Unknown AirTag Found Moving With You to Prevent Being Tracked
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Unfortunately domestic violence is common and stalking is a frequent part of that. So there are 100s of these cases in your community right now. This is true everywhere.
I otherwise agree that I can see using these to protect expensive things from being stolen and i would want that. It may be we have to wait for a 3rd party device.
LOL, I can’t believe so many of you guys think that a device can track you when it only has a range of 30 meters at most. For that to work the person tracking would have to stay within 30 meters of you. If they stay within 30 meters of you, do they really need an AirTag? LMAO. The AirTags are for finding your keys, remotes, or other items you misplace around your home. They are not James Bond style trackers.
If you put the airtag in someone's ass, will it beep?
There are usually not many Bluetooth or NFC devices in the woods, so that might not work all that well.
The only problem with that is, just the action alone of placing the airtag on the glasses is probably enough to jog your memory of where you left them. In that case, placing any object on/near your glasses every time you take them off would work.
With that being said, I lose my glasses all the time, so what do I know?!
Well, stalking and nefarious tracking is a much more serious issue that someone’s crap beinf stolen. Apple doesn’t want to put out a product that facilitates abuse of other humans.
Well, they use every iPhone in the world to track devices so…
If a thief did this (followed all the instructions, which might contain enough information for a police report), they might be identifying themselves (with their Apple ID and current location) as being in possession of reported stolen property.
No, you won’t, because the tracker isn’t moving with you.
Outdoors and away from crowds of people walking by with iPhones, a GPS tracker would probably be a better idea.
But didn't they say it was end to end encrypted so even apple can't tell who lost it or who finds it?
Unfortunate stalkers can always open it up and disconnect/remove the tiny speaker and then hide it really well.
You are not understanding yet how these work. I think there’s a lot of people who don’t understand. Come back in a month or two by then you will understand more about these cool items.
I don’t know how to tell you that without sounding rude.
Any word on sudo geofencing? Like if my camera bag with an airtag in it gets dragged further than 10 feet from me, an alarm will go off on my phone and airtag?
some such things could be done. It depends.
“If this then that” app could work for some situations
