How far is “close”? Unless these people left their phone in their car, it eould have to be more than 30 feet like bluetooth, right?
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kevindqc@lemmy.world 3 months agoThey have to be near any iPhone, which will then tell apple where they airtag is
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 months ago
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
10-30 meters to the random apple device, pending environment conditions.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 months ago
Does it only have to be phones or can it triangulate from wifi, like a ton of other tracking things do?
Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
All the tracker does (to my knowledge) is sending out a Bluetooth signal every Bluetooth-capable device that has
been backdooredthe appropriate software running and Bluetooth enabled, which is at least all IPhones, as well as many Android smartphones, will pick up those Bluetooth signals, calculate the rough distance based on the delay, and then send the rough location to the Apple servers. The Airtag itself does not calculate anything.IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 3 months ago
My understanding is that most modern iPhones, iPads, and Mac laptops will respond to Air Tags and forward their pings to Apple.