FILE - An Apple AirTag is pictured in San Francisco, California on March 14, 2022. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images) The Apple AirTag is turning out to be a boon to criminals.
Here’s why, and some ways to address unwanted tracking.The coat-button-sized AirTag, announced in April of last year, is a Bluetooth tracking device, designed to help you find keys, backpacks, wallets, devices, or any personal item you want to track.
It tracks things using Apple’s crowdsourced Find My network, which, as of 2021, boasted about 1 billion devices worldwide. It requires iOS 14.5 and iPad iOS 14.5 or newer.
AirTags will help you find a lost item by showing you a map of the location or by playing a sound. If you have an iPhone 11 or later, you can locate the AirTag with Precision Finding, which will lead you right to your AirTag.AirTags are good at what they’re designed to do.