…placing at least seven AirTags on his ex-wife’s car to surveil her.
Assuming the tags weren’t checking in with an owning device (iPhone) that car would’ve been beeping up a storm.
I recently lent a set of work keys to a colleague that I forgot had an AirTag on them, in their words: “fucking things beeped all weekend and my phone kept telling me I’m being followed!”
You would need a phone that can detect that stuff in the first place. Maybe she didn’t.
Unfortunately, yes. iPhones will check passively and Android phones can get an app but you have to check actively. Hopefully Apple and Google work on a solution for active detection on Android devices.
Is there a way to temporarily disable tracking for circumstances such as this when you loan your keys or something?
I suppose not, or people would disable it and then re-enable it later, unless they require proximity or some other protection against that.
