Can iPhone get hacked through Air tag?

When I was travelling yesterday in train after few hours a notification came air tag detected and started moving with me from this location so did someone tried to track me ??

can an iPhone get hacked through Air tag ?


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Posted on Jan 12, 2024 10:05 PM

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Posted on Jan 12, 2024 10:29 PM

Your iPhone cannot get hacked with the use of an AirTag.


When you were traveling by train, your iPhone must have sensed an AirTag that did not belong to you. One of the passengers may have had an AirTag / Keys with them. Once your iPhone got away whereby it could not detect the AirTag, then it stopped notifying you.


All of the above is normal behavior.


Axel F.

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Jan 12, 2024 10:29 PM in response to Warrior_132

Your iPhone cannot get hacked with the use of an AirTag.


When you were traveling by train, your iPhone must have sensed an AirTag that did not belong to you. One of the passengers may have had an AirTag / Keys with them. Once your iPhone got away whereby it could not detect the AirTag, then it stopped notifying you.


All of the above is normal behavior.


Axel F.

Jan 12, 2024 10:13 PM in response to Warrior_132

Warrior_132 wrote:

can an iPhone get hacked through Air tag ?


Keep the iPhone updated to the latest iOS always and never Jailbreak. That's it.


iOS / iPadOS devices cannot be hacked or infected with Virus / Malware / Spyware unless you have intentionally downloaded spurious software or unauthorized apps directly from the internet and installed them on your device or/and have Jailbroken


It (Hacking) also depends on how careful you are in sharing sensitive and valuable information pertaining to your iPhone such as Passcode, Password, etc with your friends and family members.


Be judicious when sharing the device's sensitive and valuable information with friends and family members.



If you don't reckon what is said above is true then you have two options...

  1. Report the hacking incident that you are facing to the local law enforcement authorities and follow it up
  2. Believe it, it can't be hacked. There are people who still believe that the earth is flat and also some believe no one has ever landed on the moon. What can anyone do about that? This is a free world you can believe in anything, the choice is yours.


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