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AirTag stalking protection is live on Android — here’s how to set it up(www.tomsguide.com)

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pgetsos@kbin.social
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I was waiting for Google tags to put one in my bike and car as an andi-theft measure instead of paying for GPS services (for my car only). But I see that it will soon be completely unusable for such a use case…

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Tapping the AirTag icon on the screen will bring up information about the tracker in question — including a button to make it Play sound to help you track down its exact location.

This doesn’t seem like a good thing to have the ability to do? You can just click search and then force any AirTag that you find to play a noise?

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russel@lemmy.ml
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AirGuard, the android app, seems to have this ability too but tbh I have never had the chance to play a sound on the train. You have to be in range for I think at least 15 minutes before you can ring a tag

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Still not great. Means anyone in a classroom, a plane, a train, a stadium, a workplace, etc can just start setting off AirTag at will.

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Whirlybird@aussie.zone
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Bingo.

Reading some other comments it appears that maybe you can only do this to airtags that aren’t currently “with” the owner at the time, but I can’t confirm.

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mrvictory1@lemmy.world
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available on Samsung devices running OneUI 5.1.1, like the Galaxy Z Fold 5, but not those running OneUI 5.1 like the Galaxy S23

I have the setting on Galaxy A34 running latest stable firmware with OneUI 5.1, but it is called “notifications for unknown bluetooth trackers”, slightly different from the post.

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Genghis@monero.town
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Been using this open source app for a while now. AirGuard

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ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
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Seems to be pretty good, it found my tiles I have. Not bad!

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Kanzar@lemmy.world
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Restarted my phone, but s21u in Australia - can’t find the setting. I’m updated on everything on gplay and sappstore so… 🤷🏻‍♀️

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