My airtag is visible on someone else account

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My airtag is visible on someone else account

I bought airtags recently and one of them - attached to my wife keys - has ben set up to be associated to my account (and currently visible on my iphone).

However yesterday my wife told me that a friend of her has been able to detect the airtag on her phone, to track her keys and even to make the airtag bipping in front of her

How is that possible? I haven't shared the airtag with her friend, and I thought that airtag were only supposed to be visible by the owner

iPhone 13, iOS 17

Posted on Dec 18, 2023 11:02 AM

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Tesserax

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Dec 18, 2023 3:03 PM in response to Waelch

An Apple AirTag relies on both Bluetooth and Apple "Find My Network" to relay its location to the Apple servers. This is where you would "see" in with the Find My app on your iPhone.

In turn, the "Find My Network" consists of other folk's iPhones. They just need to be within Bluetooth range (approx. 30-40') of the tag to get a notice that there is an AirTag near them ... or even following them in certain situations. This is the way they are designed to work. This is how Apple attempts to thwart nefarious people from using them as trackers.

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