You get a notification when an AirTag is following you for some time, but the AirTags owner is not near it. It's meant to detect someone slipping an AirTag on you without the false alarms from, say, taking a walk with a friend who has one in their backpack.

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mahboi an hour ago | parent | next [-]

So what good is piercing the AirTag's speaker?

	▲	dwaite 35 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It stops the audible notifications for people who aren't looking at a phone screen.
	▲	tuvix 34 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		They also ring when a non-associated iphone is moving with them for some time.

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froh an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Wait so a thieve an eye with an iPhone who steals my expensive bicycle that I have tagged with an airtag Is receiving a notification that there is an airtag "following" them nearby?

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cicko an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Yes, the moral of the story is - don't steal expensive bikes if you don't want to get spammed by notifications that the bike is following you.

	▲	klipt an hour ago \| parent [-]
		With the side effect that the thief can easily find and remove the tag.

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Barbing an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They always talk about lost items in their marketing. They don’t talk about theft prevention or finding pets or anything. Gotta go for a mini GPS tracker or something for protecting $$$$(+) bikes (which should never leave one’s sight anyway).

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TeMPOraL an hour ago | parent [-]

> They don’t talk about theft prevention or finding pets or anything.

In particular I'm guessing you can't use it to track your kid's backpack either; for that, you should instead buy your 7yo their own iPhone.

> Gotta go for a mini GPS tracker or something for protecting $$$$(+) bikes

The same one actual stalkers would use?

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dwaite 33 minutes ago | parent [-]

> In particular I'm guessing you can't use it to track your kid's backpack either; for that, you should instead buy your 7yo their own iPhone.

You can - there will be spurious phone notifications and audible notifications.

	▲	TeMPOraL 31 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Meaning: you can't, because the point of it is to help protect your kid (or, more probably, help find their backpack when they absent-mindedly lose sight of it), not to spam teachers with notifications and disrupt everyone with random beeping.

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gbalduzzi an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes. The alternative is to have stalkers using hidden airtags