"The point of these alerts is to let people know if they’re being tracked surreptitiously by someone who placed an AirTag in their bag, their pocket, or their c

"The point of these alerts is to let people know if they’re being tracked surreptitiously by someone who placed an AirTag in their bag, their pocket, or their car. Three days is already much too long, but the fact that no alerts are occurring after four days is disturbing." As I understand this feature monitors the signal strength of nearby airtags to identify ones that are travelling with you. In this case, if the person left it on a table at their house, they would constantly be moving in and out of range, so it's not moving with them. "It’s also not clear how often AirTag locations update. I gave my partner an AirTag last week for her to take when she went on an errand, driving about 20 miles from home. Since she has an iPhone, I expected to see frequent updates in the Find My app, but that wasn’t the case." Again, this is probably by design. If it worked as the author expected and gave you frequent updates, it could easily be used to track an unsuspecting person's location. This design seems much better. It still will give you enough information to locate your lost item, but it is not enough to track down the location of a single iPhone user.