air tag security

Has anyone else had issues with their air tag notifying someone else's iphone that it is near? My tag showed up on my mom's iphone when I was no where near it.

Posted on Aug 31, 2021 4:51 PM

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Posted on Aug 31, 2021 7:07 PM

That’s by design.


It reduces the chances of airtags from being used to surreptitiously track individuals w/o their knowledge.


If you HAD been near, you Mom shouldn’t have received the alert.


Read the section titled, “AirTag is designed to discourage unwanted tracking” in this article:

https://www.apple.com/airtag/


More info is available here:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212227

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Aug 31, 2021 7:07 PM in response to KSpoon-1122

That’s by design.


It reduces the chances of airtags from being used to surreptitiously track individuals w/o their knowledge.


If you HAD been near, you Mom shouldn’t have received the alert.


Read the section titled, “AirTag is designed to discourage unwanted tracking” in this article:

https://www.apple.com/airtag/


More info is available here:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212227

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