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My understanding is you should only get the notification if the tag isn't with its owner. That's how it plays out in my personal experience. Back when AirTags w
by kstrauser 3y ago
My understanding is you should only get the notification if the tag isn't with its owner. That's how it plays out in my personal experience. Back when AirTags were completely broken and didn't support family sharing, I'd get notified if I had my wife's car keys with me only when she wasn't with me, i.e. because I grabbed hers to run a quick errand.
This notification would be utterly useless if that were no longer the case: you'd spend half your time on a flight or bus ride closing the unwanted and unhelpful popups.
- rsstack 3y agoI use AirPods Pro but an Android phone. My girlfriend and friends we hung out with would complain about these, so I eventually found a way to turn off "Find my device" on the AirPods by connecting them to my iPad. I now can't track them but also people aren't mad at me for "tracking" them.
- kstrauser 3y agoHuh, good point that I hadn’t considered.
- beeboobaa3 3y agoInteresting. I've had Apple users recommend AirPods to me before, but I don't own any Apple devices so I already had a feeling it wouldn't work out. Would be insane if they would constantly be generating alerts on others their iPhones.
- rsstack 3y agoI think if you use them out of the box, they won't generate the alerts. If I understand Apple's data model correctly, once I paired them to my iPad for the first time, they were enrolled to my iCloud account, and then the tracking system was enabled.
- beeboobaa3 3y agoSo I'm screwed if an iPhone user ever pairs with my headphones, i.e. when I lend them to them?
- rsstack 3y agoEw, why would you lend in-ear headphones to anyone?
- beeboobaa3 3y agoJust wondering if I understand the Apple ecosystem correctly.
- lozaning 3y agoI took amtrak from Chicago to DC recently and my phone was constantly trying to tell me I was being followed/tracked cause someone else in the sleeper car had an airtag.
- kstrauser 3y agoIf that happens again, choose the option to stop notifying you about that specific tag. (Also, it’s possible someone had slipped a tag into that person’s luggage without their knowledge.)
- jtbayly 3y agoIt sounds like if it happens again, they can just choose to disable the AirTag completely?
- kstrauser 3y agoNot if it's another person's. Edit: I think I misread that. When you see an AirTag popup, you can choose to ignore it for the day or forever. That's from my recollection. I haven't seen one in ages.
- jtbayly 3y ago"iPhone can view the tracker’s identifier, have the tracker play a sound to help locate it, and access instructions to disable it." I wonder if that last bit requires physical access to the tracker?
- Jtsummers 3y ago3.13. Disablement The accessory SHALL have a way to be disabled such that its future locations cannot be seen by its owner. Disablement SHALL be done via some physical action (e.g., button press, gesture, removal of battery, etc.). Ledvina, et al. Expires 22 June 2024 [Page 26] Internet-Draft Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers December 2023 3.13.1. Disablement instructions The accessory manufacturer SHALL provide both a text description of how to disable the accessory as well as a visual depiction (e.g. image, diagram, animation, etc.) that MUST be available when the platform is online and OPTIONALLY when offline. Disablement procedure or instructions CAN change with accessory firmware updates. These are provided as part of the onboarding process (Section 7). https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-detecting-unwanted-location-trackers/01/ https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-detecting-unwanted-lo... Yes. Physical access would likely be needed for most of these devices and would be sufficient for satisfying the RFC, based on the examples in section 3.13. So you might get a notification of a device "following" you because I have a tracker in my bag but no phone (or my phone is off, perhaps; or maybe it's just malfunctioning and mis-reporting as happens sometimes). You play the sound and find out it's in the bag underneath your seat on the bus, but that's my bag. You could attempt to rifle through it and take my tracker and disable it, but I'd probably stop you.
- JoBrad 3y agoI get notifications about my daughter’s AirPods following me, when she is with me. My daughter is part of my Apple Family plan, and the AirPods show up in my Find My devices. I thought this article was about handling those notifications, at first.
- throwaway290 3y ago> you should only get the notification if the tag isn't with its owner My airtag occasionally thinks it's not with me and apple watch wakes me up in the middle of the night even though my bag is in the next room of this tiny flat.