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> "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 mil
by avianlyric 5y ago
> "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."
This is almost certainly a product of iOS battery management. Presumably there was only one iPhone in range during the drive (GF’s). If the iPhone isn’t plugged in, then it generally doesn’t update its precise location unless it detect “substantial movement”, which is normally triggered by thing like switching cell tower.
Net result is the AirTags location only get updated when the nearby iPhone thinks it’s power efficient to do so.