Problem with AirTag accuracy
Over the past few days, I’ve had accuracy problems in Find My:
• We spent about five minutes hunting for my wife’s car in a parking lot — something I’d promised my wife could never happen because I left an AirTag dangling from the rear-view mirror. Standing in the middle of a half-dozen empty parking spaces, Find My promised the AirTag was “with me,” even though we weren’t even close enough for the key fob’s panic button to work. My wife eventually found the car about 30 yards away. As I walked over to it, I watched the AirTag’s reported location change to stay beside my blue dot.
• Another AirTag, attached to the rear-view mirror in my car, is currently reporting its precise location as the middle of a retention pond across the street from the parking lot where my son is at school.
• My son’s phone’s “Live” location is being reported as the campus parking lot, even though he’s currently in class in a building on campus.
All of these reported locations are roughly a city block away from their actual locations, and consistently to the south. Has anyone else had problems like this? I’ve had great luck using Find My and AirTags before, but right now they seem almost useless.
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