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 32 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