r/AirTags

On Sunday evening, a friend of mine was reaching down under the backseat in an effort to adjust it. He accidentally found an AirTag there. It’s not an Apple brand, but an off brand, and it was discovered in a case with adhesive and magnets to secure it. I am thoroughly freaked out and I’ve gone to two different police departments, who have said they can’t help me. I’m looking for a private investigator or ANYONE else that can help me determine who it belongs to. It still has battery and appears to be active. Thank you for any strong leads you have.

Can someone help me figure this out please.. I went out to walk my dog and I got a notification that says "air tag detected near me" with a "First seen at 4:07AM" and "Last Seen" is the current time. The map shows an AirTag icon in my home with a map, the to in a small location (one being a grocery store that I went to earlier) and then to some apartment complex where I never went, then back to my home.
What does this mean?.. should I be freaked out?.. how is this possible?... how often is this a mistake?... what do I do?? I "played a sound" and it won't work it just says connecting. I also can't "disable AirTag" because I don't own it nor do I know what this is.

Someone stole my dog’s collar airtag… and brought it to Algeria.

For context, I live in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. About two weeks ago, I was checking on my different airtags and I notice something I thought was a glitch. My dog’s airtag which is attached to his collar was in Oum el Bouaghi, Algeria.

I found the collar in my dog’s basket without the ring where the airtag attached to it. And now it’s been two weeks its airtag is moving and walking in Algeria. I reported it lost in the app, but why? Why steal an used tag and keep walking with it.

I just had changed the battery in it. So we’ll see if this person is just vacationing there and coming back or studying aboard for the semester… hopyfully the airtag will come back to Montreal…

Got the first 3 notifications at 3am while I was asleep. I live in an apartment. When I woke up I tried to scan for the airtags and they still show but I can't find them.

I have an android if that matters but if I click on scan, if I'm in my apartment it shows the 3 airtags but if I scan outside of my apartments nothing comes up. Is it in my apartment somewhere? Or could it be a neighbors?

The strange part about this is that when I try to locate it it's saying I'm too far away until I leave the apartment which then says it's not found. Also, I was asleep when I got this notification, how would it know if I'm traveling or if it's traveling with me if I'm asleep?

Or was I sleep walking......

Edit : This is blowing up way more than I expected. It’s honestly funny that some of you are taking the time to write condescending comments to a complete stranger just to tell me I’m “wasting my time” over an AirTag. If you’re so concerned about people wasting their time, maybe start with your own. It’s simply a slightly creepy story that I wanted to share to see what other people thought about it, but apparently, the AirTag subreddit is made up of quite a few people who are bored and have nothing better to do than leave condescending comments. Anyways ! If the comments continue to get hateful, I’ll just delete :)

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Hi, I need some advice. For context, I live in the city and I have two cats. They both normally wear a collar with an AirTag on it so that when they go outside, I can keep track of where they are.
A few months ago, one of my cats came home without her collar. I opened the app, and it turned out that the collar was stuck underneath a car. We tried looking under the car, but we couldn’t find it. We waited to see if the collar would eventually move when the car moved.
Several weeks later, I received a phone call at 11 p.m., which I didn’t answer. I then received a message from a woman saying that she had found my AirTag in the street. She sent me a photo, which you can see.
What’s weird is that the AirTag no longer had the collar attached to it, and the woman never said that she had found a collar either.
I told her that I would give her number to my boyfriend because he is the one who has the car and the electric scooter, so it would be easier for him to go and pick it up.
However, it has now been almost three weeks of this woman sending messages like, “Are you available to pick it up tomorrow?” My boyfriend has replied every single time, “Where and what time?” EVERY SINGLE TIME for the past three weeks, and she never replies to him.
Eventually, I got annoyed because I felt like this was taking way too long. So I sent her another message putting a bit of pressure on her, asking her to give me her address so that we could come and pick up the AirTag directly from her.
She replied that she didn’t want to give us her address and that it was perfectly normal not to give out her address. What she doesn’t seem to understand is that, since she currently has my AirTag, I can technically see its location through my phone, which means I could potentially figure out where she lives. I was asking for her address simply out of courtesy, because I didn’t want to show up at her house without warning or without her consent.
After I put a bit of pressure on her, she told us to go to a metro station — basically, we had to get there at that exact moment to pick up the AirTag.
My boyfriend went there, but the woman wasn’t there, so he called her. She answered and, according to my boyfriend, she sounded sad and said, “I’m sorry, the AirTag is in my car, and right now I’ve taken my husband’s car. I’m doing everything wrong, I’m sorry.”
My boyfriend was understandably a little annoyed and told her that it was okay, but that next time, she would have to come directly somewhere near our home to return the AirTag to us, because at this point it was becoming ridiculous. She agreed and told us that she would discuss it with her husband and that she would bring it to us that evening or the following day.
Well, here we are the next day. It’s 9:40 p.m., and we haven’t heard anything from her. She isn’t answering our calls either.
I honestly don’t know what to do. Should I go to the police station? Would the police even do anything about something like this?

When I exit my house and start walking, it disconnects, but when I get near my house it reconnected. I clicked the location button and the map showed that the AirTag was in my house. I click play sound and it says playing, but i can't hear it anywhere. Not inside, outside, or the car.

El Municipio de Panamá sacó la plataforma Airtags Vigilantes, pero la palabra AirTag está en la Apple Trademark List, ya que es un producto directo de Apple y la palabra general que se debe utilizar es Bluetooth tracker o localizador de Bluetooth. ¿Puede la alcaldía meterse en un problema con Apple por esto?

Apple Trademark List

Airtags Vigilantes