Air tag not showing location

To "see" an AirTag's current location, a number of things must happen:

• The tag sends a Bluetooth beacon signal with it location information.
• That signal must be able to transit your car's metal body.
• Any iPhone within Bluetooth range (~30'), with the following enabled, would receive that signal.
  • Bluetooth
  • Location services
  • Find My Network
• That phone must have an active Internet connection, either by Wi-Fi or cellular, to then, relay that location information to the Apple servers. This is where you would see it on the Find My app on your iPhone.

So, all of these must be successful or else, you will get its last known location for up to 24 hours. Beyond that time frame, it would report as "No Location."

However, as you suspect, if someone has found the tag (which would not be difficult once they have access to your vehicle), they could remove its battery to disable it. There is no way to know if this is the case.

The “somewhere” info is not accurate.

An AirTag does NOT know it’s own location NOR can it communicate w/ anything other than another nearby bluetooth device.

That nearby device MUST be “cooperative” - meaning that it must know it’s own location (i.e. it’s own location services must be “on”) …

… AND it also MUST also be an active participant on Apple’s FindMy Network.

Hi. I read somewhere that even though the *bluetooth* *Location services* *Find my network were not enable on any iphone near the airtag, the owner of the said airtag can still see its update location thru the owners find my. How true is it?

Thank you

Ok, Got it.

Thank you.

You’re welcome.