AirTag disappeared from Find My in iOS 15

• All of my AirTags have disappeared in Find My ... just gone. What could cause that and how to get them back?

Really apple? Reseting the iPhone is the solution? reseting 3 times works better? After iOS 15 all my airTags disappear from my phone, they are on iCloud. Reseting 3+ times It did not work for me. Ridiculous.

I got them to show back up by resetting one of them

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212251

Then they all showed back up.

I did receive a fix for this from apple engineering.

1. Turn off bluetooth
2. Turn off Privacy > Location Services
3. Reset General > Transfer or Reset iPhone > Reset > Reset Network Settings
4. shut down iPhone for 5 minutes
5. turn on iPhone + #1 & #2
6. Reset an air tag - CRITICAL
7. iPhone will allow new air tag connection (set up air tag as if new)
8. if you have more than 1 airtag, you will see the rest of them appear in Find My (after resetting 1 air tag)
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The above worked for my 5 AirTags to reconnect to iOS15

Well, I finally got my air tag to show up after trying just about everything. This morning I decided to try this procedure again posted by another user above and the air tag magically appeared in my FindyMy App. In my situation the airtag was already added to my icloud through an ipad.

1. Turn off bluetooth
2. Turn off Privacy > Location Services
3. Reset General > Transfer or Reset iPhone > Reset > Reset Network Settings
4. Phone will reboot.
5. shut down iPhone for 5 minutes
6. Power up phone - Turn on Bluetooth and Locations services you disabled in step 1
7. Reset an air tag - CRITICAL ** I did not do this as I knew my airtag was already in my icloud account
8. Add the airtags back as if they are new.

There doesn't seem to be one fix for everyone. Some people just reboot their phone a few times .. Others just reset their air tags by pulling battery 5x. then re-add. I actually have no idea if this procedure even fixed it.. Or maybe just the fact there was a another couple of reboots involved? I do not believe as a result of IOS 15 that the airtags are actually removed from the icloud account. It's there, but for whatever buggy reason, the findmy app cant see them anymore and thinks they are someone else's . Good luck to everyone. Lesson learned for me. I am never upgrading to the first release of an IOS in the future again.

Just to add a few more details. I have observed AirTags disappeared only in iPhone (iOS15) but not in Mac nor in iPad (iPadOS15). Deleting AirTags from iPad or Mac allows to reconnect them but this is only possible from iPad. I have tried updating iCloud settings, reseting iPhone, reseting AirTag, Reseting NW settings but none of it allows to show the AirTags or connect the AirTags from iPhone. Connecting a brand new AirTag does not work. On a separate note, resetting physically the AirTags did not work either (removing the battery 5 times did not reproduce any different sound).

Solution is to power down your phone, and turn it back on, check if the air tags have reappeared. If they haven’t do it again. And keep doing it until They reappear. I did it twice in my air tags reappeared. Some people are doing it more than twice but they will eventually reappear. Worked on the iPad as well

After updating your iOS devices to iOS15, some users have experienced that previously paired AirTags had ceased showing on the Find My app.  This happened to me.

I used the solution below:

Solution is to power down your phone, and turn it back on, check if the air tags have reappeared. If they haven’t do it again. And keep doing it until They reappear. I did it twice in my air tags reappeared. Some people are doing it more than twice but they will eventually reappear. Worked on the iPad as well.

I had to re-add it to my account - I did the Airtag reset procedure. Put in battery, press down, wait for beep, repeat 5 times, on the fifth time the sound will be different and my Airtag was able to be re-added to my account.

A bit distressing that the Airtag disappeared entirely... What if someone steals my item, it seems pretty easy to reset?

Still a bit a of a vulnerability - i.e. you may not know your item is lost for a few hours or days.

Either way, it worked for this iOS 15 upgrade, but unfortunate Apple had such a major bug with the release.

Called care to get this resolved. They are also escalating my issue to engineering to review.

I have gone through all these steps and none of my 8 AirTags will reappear.

Resetting them didn’t help either.

Thank you for the tip, it solved the issue. Had 4 tags disappear when upgrading Ip12Max Pro to IOS15. First time I did the restart did not work but with second restart all 4 magically reappeared in "items". Best

my Tag was no longer listed in iOS 15. Tried lots of things that apple suggested. In the end, backing up to iCloud and then erasing and restoring from the backup solved the problem. It also solved the issue of not being able to add AirTags.