I was under the impression that having Bluetooth enabled at all was a security risk. Do people actually use Bluetooth?
First thing I disable on any device.
Apple AirTags draining battery of devices close by
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Re: Apple AirTags draining battery of devices close by
#62An annoyance that is driving me away from the Apple ecosystem is the lack of choice when it comes to these new features - they are forced onto you with no way to disable them and sometimes radically modify the behavior of the device you purchased and may make it unsuitable for the original purpose you bought it for. I'm still using an iPhone and plan to get the new SE (and only because of Touch ID is back - Face ID w…
1. I empathize with all your pain points 2. "forcing me to buy a USB headset." --> If it has a boom, everybody on the meeting, unknowingly, thanks you :)
I haven't found anything that compares to even a middling wired boom mic. Wireless has too much latency and non-boom has too much noise.
The only thing better is an actual VoIP phone (eg Polycom).
Re: Apple AirTags draining battery of devices close by
#63These AirTags keep looking like a really bad idea. Wasn't there a story recently where someone managed to use one of these as a tracking device for a person and their car, because any nearby iphone and ipad would respond to the tag or something?
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seems kind of ridiculous that in order to opt out of Apple's airtag network you essentially have to give up the ability to find your phone if it gets lost.
As I understand it, Airtags are low-power Bluetooth devices with no GPS capability. If your Bluetooth transceiver is disabled, your iOS device will not see nor report the locations of any Airtags that are otherwise in range. If you do enable Bluetooth on an iOS device, any Airtags detected will be reported to Apple over any available data connection, and this cannot be disabled in iOS as far as I know. Disabling Blue…
> If you do enable Bluetooth on an iOS device, any Airtags detected will be reported to Apple over any available data connection, and this cannot be disabled in iOS as far as I know.
That certainly seems to contradict Apple's own documentation on the Find My network. At least according to my interpretation, it seems very clear that disabling the "Find My network" toggle will disable your device's participation in the network.
Re: Apple AirTags draining battery of devices close by
#65This Orwellian shit is coming faster than most of us thought!
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#66Could you theoretically fill a backpack with a few hundred of these and piss off everyone around you? Asking for a friend.
At about $3000 (tax included) per 100 you could probably do more interesting things with say $10,000. Like giving stacks of 100 $1 bills to everyone around you except the people you want to piss off.
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Re: Apple AirTags draining battery of devices close by
#67I must spend time near hundreds of AirTags each day, yet my battery doesn't seem to be affected. Is it possible somebody is exaggerating? Or omitting relevant info?
Maybe the author is talking about devices that are asleep/off? They mention "weeks" at one point, making me think that the AirTags wake the devices from sleep often, which you'll notice in an iPad that dies after one week instead of a month while sleeping, but not in a phone that you charge every day.
Re: Apple AirTags draining battery of devices close by
#68These AirTags keep looking like a really bad idea. Wasn't there a story recently where someone managed to use one of these as a tracking device for a person and their car, because any nearby iphone and ipad would respond to the tag or something?
Yeah there's been a bunch of cases of people getting stalked by air tags which has produced the need for these types of articles: https://www.tomsguide.com/how-to/how-to-tell-if-airtag-stalk...
Re: Apple AirTags draining battery of devices close by
#69An annoyance that is driving me away from the Apple ecosystem is the lack of choice when it comes to these new features - they are forced onto you with no way to disable them and sometimes radically modify the behavior of the device you purchased and may make it unsuitable for the original purpose you bought it for. I'm still using an iPhone and plan to get the new SE (and only because of Touch ID is back - Face ID w…
> In my case, the audio devices menu on Mac/iOS displays nearby AirPlay targets, including those not on the LAN. My neighbors got their misconfigured so it always pollutes my menus with no way to disable this even though I never use AirPlay and don't have any compatible hardware (nor intend to get any). Make it play Rick Astley until they fix it.
Play the russian national anthem on loop if you really want to make them hustle
Re: Apple AirTags draining battery of devices close by
#70Could you theoretically fill a backpack with a few hundred of these and piss off everyone around you? Asking for a friend.
Would be much easier to script that all out and have a single Bluetooth device. https://github.com/seemoo-lab/openhaystack#how-to-track-othe...
Do you know if I can use this to track a tag from the web if I don't own a recent Apple device?