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AirTag to find stolen bike?
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1912894" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>It will eventually alert a thief with an iPhone, but not for a while and not if the thief moves away from the bike and their iPhone gets out of range. In the meantime, you can track it and either go get it back, or send the police to get it back for you. Basically, the alerts are delayed a bit. How long that should be is a debate currently being argued out in the public arena. Too short and every time you are out on a sidewalk and someone is going in your same direction with an AirTag with them you (and everybody with you with iPhones) will get the alert. Imagine being on a crowded highway and a car beside you has an AirTag on the keys and you get an alert because it's nearby!</p><p></p><p>But, if the alert time delay is too long and if the AirTag is planted on you for the purpose of stalking or worse, it might be too late.</p><p></p><p>I don't know what the current default wait time is, sorry. I have read it is in the range of several hours, but that may have changed or be changed.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: BTW, they do work very well. I have used them on luggage on two trips from the US to UK in the last year. It was very comforting to see that the luggage was near me just before we pushed back from the gate on departure and that it was near me on arrival at the destination. And I could track it as it moved through the airport to the baggage claim area. Slick!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1912894, member: 396914"] It will eventually alert a thief with an iPhone, but not for a while and not if the thief moves away from the bike and their iPhone gets out of range. In the meantime, you can track it and either go get it back, or send the police to get it back for you. Basically, the alerts are delayed a bit. How long that should be is a debate currently being argued out in the public arena. Too short and every time you are out on a sidewalk and someone is going in your same direction with an AirTag with them you (and everybody with you with iPhones) will get the alert. Imagine being on a crowded highway and a car beside you has an AirTag on the keys and you get an alert because it's nearby! But, if the alert time delay is too long and if the AirTag is planted on you for the purpose of stalking or worse, it might be too late. I don't know what the current default wait time is, sorry. I have read it is in the range of several hours, but that may have changed or be changed. EDIT: BTW, they do work very well. I have used them on luggage on two trips from the US to UK in the last year. It was very comforting to see that the luggage was near me just before we pushed back from the gate on departure and that it was near me on arrival at the destination. And I could track it as it moved through the airport to the baggage claim area. Slick! [/QUOTE]
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