"Unknown accessory detected near you" on iPhone

It was almost certainly the AirPods. It will warn of any Apple device consistently near you that is not attached to your Apple ID.

Hello! I have the same problem and I am pretty sure what causes it is not spyware (like an unwanted AirTag) but AirPods Pro! If you have AirPods Pro there seems to be an issue with the firmware - this is not officially confirmed by Apple, but several users on reddit reported this issue and all of them had the AirPods Pro in common. If you have them they are likely to cause this issue and you can turn off notifications regarding that. I hope this helps!

I received a notification saying that ‘an unknown device is tracking you’ and ‘first seen with you at 12:58am’. I do not own any airpods, my husband does but he was in the car only after 12pm but this thing tracked my location even before that. Ar 12:58am my car was on the driveway and ring cameras don’t show anyone near it. So is this still the same bug?

When you say “family shared account” do you mean you have one Apple ID that is shared between 2 or more people, or you each have individual accounts that are grouped with Apple’s Family Sharing feature?

If you mean you have multiple users on one Apple ID that is not a recommended practice. If you are not doing this, and have Family Sharing, ignore the rest of this post.

Apple IDs are personal; they shouldn’t be shared any more than you would share a toothbrush. If you share an Apple ID with someone else many bad things will happen. Each user should have their own Apple ID, then you can create Family Sharing→What is Family Sharing? - Apple Support. That way you can share what you want to share and not share what you don’t want to share.

It is OK to share an Apple ID among devices used by one person, such as an iPhone, an iPad and a Mac; in fact, it is a very useful thing to do. But not between devices used by different people.

Here is Apple’s FAQ: https://appleid.apple.com/faq/#!&page=faq. See the 4th bullet item.

The same thing happened to me today, I do not have any AirPods Pro, I was using at the time my 1st gen AirPods. Apple was unable to help as they didn’t had any practical advice. It’s really creepy and scary, I walk to work and school everyday and now I’m scared. Do you have any other recommendations?

Same thing is happening to my mom! First pinged her car in the driveway (or so it looks from the map) around 4am yesterday- randomly didn’t ping throughout the day then around 4pm (when she got off work) it started pinging again following her from our home, around the town, and back. Last pinged around 9:25pm last night. We weren’t able to find anything on the car & it just keeps saying “cannot connect to server”. Is this something people can pause and unpause or how do these even work?

uh honestly fear for you life cause my mom got assaulted viscously because of this feature turn off the find my iPhone feature but yes do it immediately and go be with some one rn you are in danger

This happened to me too. By any chance did you have your ID in your phone? I️ had mine in the back of my case and That’s the only thing I️ can think of somehow but idk I’m creeped out

Good to hear!

yeah the same thing is happening to me, i didn’t have my airpods with me yet i have 2 things following me that come from the same location.

This is happening to me nearly every single day now and the noise doesn’t work, it’s extremely unsettling/annoying. I think it must just be an Apple bug.

I lost my connection with my advisor Syed

did u ever figure this out because it’s happening to me right now and it’s really scaring me especially cuz I was on the subway and it could really be anyone

Same thing is happening to me and I was with my friend who had AirPods 3 on her but not AirPods Pro

was it specifically AirPods Pro or any AirPods?

The thing is my find my iPhone was off the entire time and I still got the notification about the unknown accessory