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by ornornor 1215 days ago
I have an airtag on mine but I’m not super convinced it will make a difference:

- whenever I pick up the bike to ride it after a long period of not using it (say overnight or after a day of work), the airtag starts ringing. I don’t know why it does that but it would for sure tip the thief off

- don’t iPhones and maybe androids now show some kind of notification and offer to disable the tag if a tag you don’t own starts following you? That would also prevent me from finding the bike

- AirTags don’t report their altitude, only their location. Good luck figuring out in which apartment and on which floor it’s kept. Police would most likely decline to help as they can’t search every apartment

2 comments

I bet those AirTag dealies don't include any mechanism that disables themselves if the speaker is physically defeated
They don't. And you can silence them with any amount of pressure on the outer case.
Air tags ring so abusers can't use them to track a person secretly. The speaker can be disabled though.