Airtag not updating location

I have the same issue. Air tag only updates if I’m near by. When I give it to me daughter who does NOT have a phone yet - it does not update the location when going out. How do we fix this?

Airtag’s useless if the burglar uses an android phone 😂

Could you share a link to the Reddit post please? I am trying to raise attention to this for weeks now, but nobody seems to be able / want to recreate the issue. We desperately need more people filing bug reports about this to wake Apple up. It is getting serious. Thank you.

Hi there. I somewhat agree that I did see Find My actually did search (spinning wheel) for a tag shared with me by my wife. Then it stopped even though we were live testing it at her work where a number of iOS devices were active. I’m going to un pair and hard reset all tags. I’ll test it along with the other techniques of pairing through contacts and reset network settings. But again I are they did…something.

Recently bought 8 AirTags for various keys, wallets and bags belonging to myself and OH. OH lost his house keys late at night so I opened Find My to locate them. Briefly, it said they were at a location where he had been earlier when in his brother’s parked car. When I opened app again it said they were at home. The app said it couldn’t connect, so we hunted high and low with no joy. Next day we drove 10 miles to where car was parked thinking if key had fallen on ground, we could get in range and find it. Again the app said it could not connect and keys were at home. Spent an hour searching by eye before OH’s brother coincidentally rang him. Long story short, he looked in his car and the keys were on the back seat! Brother has an iPhone so that should have allowed connection!

We wasted a 20 mile round trip, not to mention the time.

I have reset the airtag and have been testing it but it is still not working. The other tags seem to be the same. I occasionally get locations and I am guessing this is when it is in the vicinity of someone with an iPhone on an older OS.

I am utterly infuriated!! Indeed, what is the use of them if this is the only way they can be located?

Latest iOS versions 17.4.1 and 16.7.7 have fixed the issue. But people need to update their iPhones before they will contribute to the FindMy network again. So it will get better the next weeks every day, if Apple doesn't f* it up again.

I might be an idiot but I realized I didn’t have location services on specifically for my ‘find my’ app. The location services were one but then when I clicked on it and looked at the find my app it wasn’t on. Everyone else has probably checked that but hoping it helps someone out:).

I noticed the new IOS update magically made the AirTags update more

often.. still not like it use to but it does around half an hour or so. Before it was going to 2-4 hours at times.. seems like it’s being done purposely by Apple. Maybe reducing liability for stalking? I’m sure they know this is an issue.

There's a post on reddit that indicated phones running iOS17+ are not reporting locations, but iOS and earlier are.

Agree have the same problems they are a piece of junk

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