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Re: Apple is convinced my dog is stalking me

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Post by dougmwne »

fingerlocks wrote: post #83
dougmwne wrote: post #81

Airtags are such a mess. My partner has one on his keys. First it would just notify me when he left his phone in the car. No way to permanently dismiss that notification. Hmm. Then it started notifying me all the time whether he has his phone or not. I have a near constant notification that I can only "ignore" for 24 hours. Then it started beeping at random times like in a theatre. I would gladly agree to a waver so…

That’s odd. My partner and I have two each and never have that experience. Like not at all. I wonder if the batteries are dying or the product is defective?

Yes, it's very clearly a bug. It didn't happen for the first month, then wouldn't stop. Turning on and off location services on his phone fixes it for a bit.

Re: Apple is convinced my dog is stalking me

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Post by dougmwne »

93po wrote: post #93
dougmwne wrote: post #81

Airtags are such a mess. My partner has one on his keys. First it would just notify me when he left his phone in the car. No way to permanently dismiss that notification. Hmm. Then it started notifying me all the time whether he has his phone or not. I have a near constant notification that I can only "ignore" for 24 hours. Then it started beeping at random times like in a theatre. I would gladly agree to a waver so…

To clarify, your phone tells you he left his phone behind? Or the airtag on the keys tells you that the phone was left behind? Cus the latter sounds awesome for my use case.

There's a product feature that notifies you when you leave your tagged item behind in a place that's not home.

There's another anti-stalking feature that notifies other people if an airtag not paired with their phone is not with the phone it belongs to.

But I'm encountering a bug where I get notified all the time, not just when the paired phone is not present. I know it's a bug because it only happens with one airtag, not the other.

Re: Apple is convinced my dog is stalking me

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Post by drcongo »

ezfe wrote: post #20
drcongo wrote: post #12

My AirTags keep notifying me that I've left stuff behind and that it was last seen at my home address . Other times they notify me that something in the same room as me has been left behind 3 streets away.

You can open up the item and edit the locations to ignore. If it already has your home address, you can make the radius bigger.

I've already got a huge radius around my house, big enough to make the AirTags almost pointless.

Re: Apple is convinced my dog is stalking me

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Post by 404mm »

jrmg wrote: post #111
404mm wrote: post #98

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How can you do that?! I need this! I have AirTags, family setup and plague of notifications :(

The Apple docks state that if you get a notification about an AirTag assigned to a family member, you have the choice of silencing the notifications indefinitely. Search for ‘family’ here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212227

Thanks! They must have added it some time after I became numb to all notifications from Find My. Imo this was really poorly handled by Apple :(

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Post by FinnKuhn »

Spooky23 wrote: post #119
shaunsingh0207 wrote: post #113

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On the iCloud family settings page you can enable/disable sharing your location with the rest of your family. I imagine AirTags would be the same. That being said, if you aren't comfortable with family members knowing your location, then why would you want to share AirTags or an iCloud with them in the first place?

That’s the point. I don’t want to share AirTags with them. I’m not saying it’s impossible, just that it’s a difficult and tricky use case.

While I wouldn't want to do so too, it should at least be possible to have an option to ignore the AirTags from family members travelling with you.

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Post by stefanvdw1 »

shaunsingh0207 wrote: post #114
duxup wrote: post #43

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I’ve heard similar reports, but I keep air tags in my kid’s backpacks and the tags never seem to make noises in them. Maybe because they are in predictable contact with me / predictable routes.

I have an AirTag in my bag and it beeps maybe twice a day for no apparent reason, It'll be in the same room as me, I have my phone with me, and I'm in this same room every day. It doesn't send me the notification the bag is "lost", it just starts beeping.

I found that turning of Bluetooth causes the beeping. I have it turned on and haven’t heard them in ages

Re: Apple is convinced my dog is stalking me

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Post by ezfe »

cr3ative wrote: post #118
ezfe wrote: post #18

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This option is available if the AirTag is a family members' AirTag. You can ignore alerts indefinitely under those conditions.

It isn’t. You can’t. I would love that to be true.

Yes, it literally is.

Aside from my partners' AirPods which are bugged up (unique to them specifically, not sure...) I've ignored alerts on all her other tags.

When you receive the tracking alert, tap it and you will have a few options. One of those options is to ignore alerts. When you tap it, it will ask you whether you want to Pause Tracking Alerts for the day or indefinitely. If you tap indefinitely, you'll stop getting alerts for that item.

You can see this referenced on Apple Support [1], but I've done this personally with success. The only devices it doesn't work on are AirPods but it works on my Chipolo wallet card and all my/their AirTags.

[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212227

Re: Apple is convinced my dog is stalking me

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Post by tinus_hn »

sli wrote: post #117
tinus_hn wrote: post #102

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Next up: people whining because crooks use AirTags to stalk them and Apple isn’t doing enough to stop it

Not sure why the derision is necessary. That's been a constant topic of discussion ever since AirTags released because it's a real concern that has multiple examples and has informed the design of the exact feature that the posted article is about.

Nothing is necessary of course, it’s just to counterbalance the ‘hurr durr Apple bad’ crowd which seamlessly gaslights between ‘AirTags are terrible stalking devices and Apple is responsible for all stalkers and stalking wouldn’t be possible were it not for the terror of the AirTag’ and ‘I don’t care about privacy and why is Apple giving these stupid notifications to counter stalker use of AirTags.’

There’s tons of tracking devices on the market and Apple made choices to make the use of AirTags private and with a certain level of protection against stalker use. It’s known before you purchase them, if you don’t like it, don’t purchase them.

Re: Apple is convinced my dog is stalking me

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Post by el_benhameen »

rtkwe wrote: post #92
croutonwagon wrote: post #77

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Interesting point you make. My wife and I have shared an icloud account since before family sharing was an option but i was way too cheap to by multiple copies of a weather app etc. It works fine short of having to make some new tweaks each time i update/restore/add a device (mostly around setting options in iMessage and Facetime to uncheck my numbers on her device and vice versa on mine.). I have been increasingly m…

AFAIK if you setup a family the notifications go away. What would solve this for couples that aren't quite that committed would be a way to share the location info on an AirTag or at least be able to mark a particular tag as 'known' or 'safe'. I think with either of those but particularly the former all of the stalking concerns kind of go away. If you can also access and see the location for an AirTag in particular i…

The notifications do not go away. My wife is on my iCloud family plan and she still gets them constantly. That’s what’s so bizarre about the whole setup.
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