I tracked my kid with Apple's Airtags to test its privacy features

Re:I tracked my kid with Apple's Airtags to test its privacy... by codyb on Monday May 10, 2021 @08:48AM (#27105400)

My impression from “work in progress” was that they’ll continue to be evaluated and evolve as time goes on.

Seemed like a decent faith attempt to try the things out.

I didn’t know, for instance, that without upgrading iOS they wouldn’t work, although of course that makes sense. Or about the three day beeping feature.

Or even that they only communicate with the network via other devices. Presumably the kids on the school bus didn’t have updated iPhones I guess.

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Re:I tracked my kid with Apple's Airtags to test its privacy... by datfrojo on Monday May 10, 2021 @08:59AM (#27105495)

The find my network has existed for some time (2019 if I recall correctly) and was originally introduced so that the network of iPhones could locate lost MacBooks. Airtags can be located by the find my network using devices running older ios versions.

It is only the Airtag specific features which require 14.5 (I.e privacy features, pairing, identifying found airtag). I

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