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Re:I mailed an AirTag and tracked its progress by floatingatoll on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @03:17PM (#27122284)
The notification was described by Apple as being tied to you, person having an AirTag you don’t know, having a Home location on your iPhone’s “myself” contacts card, which presumably then also requires you to have certain System Services permissions to have been left enabled to allow recognition of location by the iPhone in question.

Phrasing clumsy, but essentially: If your iPhone doesn’t have a Home icon in Maps for your home, you might not get AirTags tracking protection. Someone should test, or ask Apple to clarify.

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Re:I mailed an AirTag and tracked its progress by neop1x on Thursday May 13, 2021 @02:21PM (#27145441)
That assumes the person being tracked owns a supported iPhone device. So that probably means someone with an android, having AirTag planted on them, can be tracked freely by nearby iPhones...
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Re:I mailed an AirTag and tracked its progress by floatingatoll on Friday May 14, 2021 @02:36PM (#27158053)
Yes, but that’s irrelevant in the context we’re discussing here, where the the reviewer was testing his friend’s iPhone.
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