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Re: Apple is convinced my dog is stalking me

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Post by justsomehnguy »

Dylan16807 wrote: post #112
justsomehnguy wrote: post #60

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I bet they did but it was a too big can of worms. Did you forgot how everyone claimed what everyone would stalk everyone and hence this shit should be banned? Did you forgot that there were (and probably still are) people who tried to use AirTags to stalk? Now everyone loves AirTags and A. can add more functionality which were deemed too controversial to include at the start.

Why would sharing have made those claims any worse? And this way they annoy a huge number of people.

but stalker would make his tag shared and the victim would never know!

It doesn't matter what to do this you need physical access to and the way to unlock the phone, it is still a valid way[0] and adding that at the start would clash with "you would know when [a predator's] an unknown AirTag would follow you".

[0] if you can't imagine this happening to you then it doesn't means it couldn't happen.

Re: Apple is convinced my dog is stalking me

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Post by cr3ative »

ezfe wrote: post #128
cr3ative wrote: post #118

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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…

Thank you, this is news to me, and apparently something is stubbornly not working properly in my setup. That "indefinite" option, which I've never seen before but you kindly highlight, should fix this case. Time to... debug a coin.

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

I just got one of the expected “stalking” AirTag notifications from my wife’s tag and I can confirm there is NO option to silence it for more than a day. I was one of the rather early AirTag adopters so I’ll go ahead and unpair it and re-add it to her account to see if it behaves differently tomorrow.

Re: Apple is convinced my dog is stalking me

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Post by Dylan16807 »

justsomehnguy wrote: post #131
Dylan16807 wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would sharing have made those claims any worse? And this way they annoy a huge number of people.

but stalker would make his tag shared and the victim would never know! It doesn't matter what to do this you need physical access to and the way to unlock the phone, it is still a valid way[0] and adding that at the start would clash with "you would know when [a predator's] an unknown AirTag would follow you". [0] if you can't imagine this happening to you then it doesn't means it couldn't happen.

So if they have control over your phone they could do something less effective than install a tracking app? That's not very impressive.

Re: Apple is convinced my dog is stalking me

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Post by ezfe »

cr3ative wrote: post #132
ezfe wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Thank you, this is news to me, and apparently something is stubbornly not working properly in my setup. That "indefinite" option, which I've never seen before but you kindly highlight, should fix this case. Time to... debug a coin.

If you are seeing their name (ie "John's AirTag" or "John's iPhone") then it should work. On the AirPods I mentioned that don't work, no name appears which I suspect is why.

Re: Apple is convinced my dog is stalking me

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Post by juancn »

Family sharing would help a lot with AirTags, sadly they don't support it. I have one on my dog, and warns my wife each time they go for a walk, since it's paired with my iCloud account.

It looks like it should be a relatively simple software fix but somebody made a dumb call early on in design.

Re: Apple is convinced my dog is stalking me

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Post by justsomehnguy »

Dylan16807 wrote: post #134
justsomehnguy wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

but stalker would make his tag shared and the victim would never know! It doesn't matter what to do this you need physical access to and the way to unlock the phone, it is still a valid way[0] and adding that at the start would clash with "you would know when [a predator's] an unknown AirTag would follow you". [0] if you can't imagine this happening to you then it doesn't means it couldn't happen.

So if they have control over your phone they could do something less effective than install a tracking app? That's not very impressive.

Depends on your definition of 'effective'. AirTags are tied to Apple Account, not to a specific iPhone, so trusting an AirTag would survive replacing the phone.

Re: Apple is convinced my dog is stalking me

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Post by Dylan16807 »

justsomehnguy wrote: post #137
Dylan16807 wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So if they have control over your phone they could do something less effective than install a tracking app? That's not very impressive.

Depends on your definition of 'effective'. AirTags are tied to Apple Account, not to a specific iPhone, so trusting an AirTag would survive replacing the phone.

If syncing this hypothetical setting would be the problem, then don't sync it.
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