"Beep as anti-stalking measure" is somewhere between marketing spin and gaslighting. A lost AirTag chirps to serve its primary function of being recovered.

The timer is 3 days[1], which observers (Forbes, WaPo) agree is surprisingly unreasonable for this use case. We can infer it was never a serious design consideration.

On Android, decent Bluetooth is a gamble, but scanning will theoretically find one[2].

[1] https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/04/20/moren-fine-prin... [2] https://lifehacker.com/try-using-a-bluetooth-scanner-app-to-...