Yes, within about 30 minutes. They are basically useless for theft prevention as a result. Apple nerfed the functionality after someone used it for stalking. You'll notice there is no mention of theft prevention in the marketing materials anymore.

Apple even provide a handy Android app for locating them.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.trac...

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Gigachad an hour ago | parent | next [-]

There never was mention of theft prevention. The release day marketing was about losing your keys in the couch. Day one ios would alert you if a tag was tracking you but it took a while for them to collaborate with Android on it.

The societal harm from allowing cheap silent tracking of people is greater than the benefit of recovering stolen bags.

	▲	gfody an hour ago \| parent [-]
		maybe they could set something up where local pd handles the tracking if/when necessary

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ncr100 33 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Android 6 and up has in unbuilt support, per that app