Just installed an Apple AirTag under the saddle to track my bike in case someone tries to steal it. I’m going to cover it with black electrical tape to protect it from dust and water. The best part is I'll easily be able to change the battery after a year without having to peel the whole thing off. Hopefully, it works out!
Posting this to get people’s advice who have had similar experiences and figured out what to do.
I live in a rural area. My closest neighbors are at least 5-10 minute walk away in any direction and nowhere close enough to have their AirTags alert at my property.
Yesterday, I received an AirTag alert saying one was near me starting in the afternoon and it kept sounding well into the evening to where I could hear the noise nearby but I was too scared to go out into the dark to find it (because why would an AirTag be near my rural place, especially at night).
I decided to wait until today during the day time to go investigate, for safety reasons.
In the meantime, I messaged my landlord to see if they have any AirTags here that they did not inform me of, such as in the storage area. Sure enough, they said they do have one on a motorcycle that belongs to them in the storage area.
But it never alerted before for the 3 months I’ve lived here and the map for AirTag shows the AirTag moving in a cyclical, back and forth, pattern and the motorcycle hasn’t been moved since I’ve lived here.
Today, I wake up and decide to look for it since it’s daytime. But now, it won’t allow me to search for it anymore and says it was last seen at 3:20 am.
At this point, I’m thinking it’s either an AirTag placed on a pet or stray animal that roams. Or, my worst fear, is that it is an AirTag on a person and that person was lurking near my rural home until 3:20 am last night.
Has anyone else had a similar scare to this? Were you able to locate the airtag?
My cat has been gone for 3 days. He’s mostly outdoor but comes indoors to cuddle and eat. He’s didn’t come home one day and I tracked his location to .5 miles from our house. We went searching for him in the area for 2 days and couldn’t find him. Then his location pinged a mile from us. Again went to search and couldn’t find him. The last ping was the location a mile away until a few minutes ago when I got an alert from Apple saying he was seen. But now when I go to Find My, it shows him at the location he was at 3 days ago, with 6/29 as the date last seen, even though a few minutes ago it said he was last seen yesterday a mile away. What is happening?!?
I recently bought a used 2nd gen AirTag off of Amazon and upon connecting it to my phone I found out that the original seller still has it connected to their Apple account, does anyone know if there is a way to manually remove it myself?
So my cat is stuck in a house right beside my complex, i saw him already. My airtag is telling me is at home in the complex. Is it always this innacurate and how can i fix this, should i get another laternative
I’m gonna go through all of my things, but I’m really worried since a car couldn’t have been that close to me for that long
On Friday 6/26 around 4pm, I was at the Southwest counter and saw an AirTag (I had been rummaging around and I assumed I dropped mine so I picked it up and headed for security check.
I didn’t realize it wasn’t mine until I got home and my phone alerted me.
If it is yours send me a message via your “find my” app and I will send it to you
This pops up on my iPad every time I’m in a certain room of my house. It does not come up on my cell or work phone which also are both iPhones. I’ve never bought an AirTag. What does it mean? Help the technologically challenged here
Guy bought my car and is having it shipped coast to coast. He is sending me an airtag to put in it. I don't have a Apple phone or computer. Can I track on my PC or Android?
Had recent trip to Italy on Air Canada and learned some important things.
Flight from Denver to Montreal was delayed, missed connection to Rome by minutes and was put on a Lufthansa Flight to Frankfurt --> Rome. My bag didn't make it. Luckily I had purchased AirTags. I could see where my bag was at all times. The Air Canada app was really helpful and even let me share the AirTag info with them so we were all on the same page. I called customer service and they could see my lost bag file and see its location in real time. Guy told me it would be on the same flight the next day and they would get it to me in Rome. NOTE: if you are able, build as much white space into international travel as you can.
Sure enough, I watched my bag get loaded in Montreal and land in Rome. I spent a few hours at our place in Rome waiting for it to get delivered or get a call, but decided to just hop on the train and go grab it myself. Sure I missed out on some sightseeing, but I got my bag. Important to note that AC doesn't have much of a footprint in Rome and I could not tell how I was going to get my bag if I hadn't gone myself; there didn't seem to be a sense of urgency on anyone's part at he airport to get lost bags moving.
So AC got us to Rome, and thanks to AirTags, good customer service, and a good app, delivered my bag.
Authors Note: The luggage in question is a bright red LL Bean XL rolling duffel we lovingly refer to as
Big Red. I bought big red at the LL Bean Flagship store in Maine when I was there for Survival school in 2001. Big Red has been around the world on multiple deployments and many fishing/huntig trips and has served our family well. Alas, Big Red has two busted runners, only half of the baseboard that was attached to aforementioned
runners, and - after a particularly brutal bag drag around Venice, no fully intact wheels (still rolled).
Big Red has been retired from air travel and will continue his duties in car travel. 26 years of hard use is more than one can ask from a bag.
Long story short I am moving to a different country (I’m in Europe) and following advice on this sub I bought 2nd gen AirTag put one into one of the boxes. The box was packed deep inside the van. I confirmed the driver had an iPhone and warned him there is an AirTag inside. He said no problem and I could see the airtag location and it moved to the moving company warehouse on Friday, exactly like they said it would. The driver said the van would be left in a warehouse till Sunday and a different driver would be picking it up Sunday morning and going to the destination.
The problem is, it’s still showing it’s there despite the moving company telling me it’s been on the move since early hours on Sunday. Its location updates every few hours and keeps showing that same warehouse location.
So my question is - are the moving company lying to me or is somehow the airtag not updating correctly? Does the van chassis act like a faraday cage and block the signal? Maybe the new driver doesn’t have an iPhone and airtag signal is not strong enough to update by random passing cars? What’s going on here? I thought AirTags were supposed to be super precise.
Shows as a bike since usually what it’s on.
UPDATE: confirmed with a newer Google Earth map from this year it’s something under construction like some of you suggested. Tag still hasn’t moved in a day but at least we know it’s not a possible true crime case :)
Hi AirTag peeps! I am not an AirTag expert by any means. Figured I’d get that out of the way before I ask my question about the AirTag in my car.
So, I went on a work trip last week and dropped my car off at the dealer for an oil change a few days before my scheduled appt. Called the dealer and asked if that was ok, and they said it was fine. The day before my appt I check my Find My app and noticed my car was not at the dealer. It was at a couple of different places throughout the evening about a half mile to a mile away from the car dealership. Do you think the AirTag is reporting inaccuracies? Or is it safe to assume that someone was driving my car?
If case anyone is wondering, yes my car’s name is Brown car.
Thanks in advance for the help!
I never clean my car out it’s truly rare that I do and for a while it’s been digging in my mind that I need to clean it that it’s starting to get that time well today I had the perfect excuse to clean it a bunch of my friends and I where going to the beach so that made sense well I was digging through my car and all of a sudden I see a white air tag in my car and air tag!? How do I even know who could’ve done this or how to track it
More & more I see post in this group how people find AirTags in their cars or weird places. I fiend it really really hard to believe. I’m at the point where when I see something like this I just don’t believe it. Not saying it doesn’t happen but rarely!
Hi everyone,
I have a bit of an issue: I keep getting notified (on my Android) that there's an airtag nearby. I have found the MAC of the device and see it regularly. Now, the location history shows my house, but I'm quite certain the tag is not in my house (probably one of the neighbors). At the same time, our house seems to be the only one with iPhones and hence, hoever is tracking the airtag will see my house rather than whoever else their house, which makes me concerned about safety.
Has anyone else had this before? How did you deal with it or how would you deal with it?
Thanks!
Every week, I have to go away for a day or two, and have to leave my cat with my elderly parents & spend my entire trip in terror that they're going to accidentally let him outside. As a minimal safeguard, I got them an iPhone and have him wearing an airtag collar.
Every week, the formerly new, allegedly-Airtag-compatible Energizer battery that I put in the previous week shows up as almost dead. In theory, I suppose it's a net improvement over the "regular" CR2032 cells that show up as "low battery" instantly or within minutes of being inserted into the AirTag, but it's driving me crazy.
I tried some cheap CR2032 cells from Dollar Tree. They didn't display bitterant-related premature death... but only lasted ~3-4 weeks due to just being crap batteries.
Is there any such thing as a high-quality Duracell/Energizer-class CR2032 lithium cell that delivers months of battery life and ISN'T screwed up by bitterant-coating? Or, is there any real, honest-to-god way to scrub it away that actually works? I've tried dish soap, fine-grit sandpaper, and rubbing alcohol without success.
I noticed that the Philips CR2032 cells have a circle with an icon that looks like an adult beating a child with a paddle. By some chance, is the area within that circle the area where the bitterant IS, the bitterant-free zone to make sure lines up with the contact in the Airtag, or just an etching they put there to warn you that it's coated that has no particular significance beyond being a warning?
I can’t provide a screenshot for location privacy reasons but apparently there was an airtag that was detected near me around 10 pm and was last seen around 3:50 am when I was asleep. It shows a red line from behind my building to some random small neighborhood park nearby and then back to some random spot behind my building. Should I be concerned? What should I do?
I have a bad habit of losing things constantly so I picked up two AirTags, for my wallet and for my keys. The reviews made them seem appropriate and very simple to use, "it just works" etc. Perhaps I am stupid but I am kinda confused by them.
I wanted to check what message the AirTag would display when in lost mode. Doing this was already strange as I could not activate lost mode while near the tag, so I purposefully left it at home and went to the gym, and marked it as lost. The message that it shows has the right contact information, that's great.
There is however, no way to turn the lost mode off it seems. There is only an option to "Remove Contact Info", I am terrified to press that button as pretty much the reason I have this is I lose my things in places I frequent that are a close community and would contact me.
From what I read online, the "downside" of being in lost mode is that it can interfere with your privacy - I am not in a position where getting my contact information is dangerous, but that makes me confused as to why this process is confusing.
Why can't I activate lost mode when I am next to my device? If this does reveal my contact, that's fine, I don't want it to be sitting somewhere for hours, I don't realize this, and it never gets returned because the good samaritan can't even contact me if they try and then they give up.
Why can't I disable lost mode?
Why are these devices so unintuitive? Feels very non Apple like
