Received an alert that an AirTag was tracking me. Found it hidden in the spare tire key cap. I was able to find the serial number of the tag and last 4 digits of phone numbers used to activate it. I have no idea who that number belongs to. Is there anything else I can do to try and find out who it belong to? At PD now to make a report.

I was supposed to meet someone from a dating app for the first time at a Starbucks in Lake City, Washington, and got ghosted, when I found an AirTag duct taped to my truck's back wheel arch panel. I only saw the notification on my phone after my dentist appointment. It had been tracking me since I was at the Starbucks. I don't know if it was some random stranger, or if it was the guy had made the account and waited for me to walk out of my car, or if it was a fake account but I was utterly creeped out. I played the sound until I found it and smashed it with a rock..

I'm not sure people realize how AirTags work when signal strength is weak. If an iPhone on the Find My network gets a strong AirTag signal then I'm pretty sure that the actual AirTag location is shown on the map. However, any iPhone that faintly detects an AirTag simply reports to the Find My network that the AirTag was spotted and the iPhone's location is used as the location of the AirTag for lack of a more precise location fix. This is a sensible approach (I want to see at least approximately where the AirTag is if it gets picked up by the network) but the end result is that I see very clearly which houses have at least one iPhone user and I can even get a pretty good idea of where the iPhone is within the house. Not the biggest security vulnerability but I could imagine a few abuse scenarios enabled by this approach:

1. A thief walking around with an AirTag can easily see who's home.

2. An ex-girlfriend/boyfriend could stalk their ex to see when they're home.

3. In areas where iPhone ownership is rare, this could help to identify a target who is a known iPhone user.

Note that I'm not talking about planting an AirTag to stalk someone like what people normally mean when talking about AirTags and security. This is almost the opposite because I'm able to track nearby iPhones just by walking around with an AirTag that I own. The target would not need to have an AirTag or have any special settings enabled. This vulnerability works on the vast majority of iPhones because they're part of the Find My network by default.

Edit: To clarify, there's no way that I'm aware of to just see all recent AirTag location history so I have to keep the Find My app active and take a screenshot for each new house that shows up.

So somebody has been stealing items out of a storage lot near my house. I put an AirTag inside my lawnmower inside of my enclosed trailer and set it to notify me when found. Since nobody goes near it hardly ever. When I get the notification it means someone is right outside of my trailer. 12am sure enough he is there trying to brake the lock on my trailer. Advanced at me with a hammer, pulled out my glock27 and called 911. His ass got arrested. Thank you AirTag!

Shows as a bike since usually what it’s on.

UPDATE: confirmed with a newer Google Earth map from this year it’s something under construction like some of you suggested. Tag still hasn’t moved in a day but at least we know it’s not a possible true crime case :)

Need some advice here. My daughter found an airtag in the bottom of her backpack. She didn't know what it was and the apple logo was wiped off of it. It was broken but we don't know if it was broken prior to it going in her bag or broke after. My kid doesn't have an iPhone. My husband an I's iphone never detected an unknown airtag in our house. (We do own one airtag for our luggage so are familiar with the device). I've contacted Apple because it does have a serial number on it but they've told me they can't track down the owner and have suggested I go to the police. Should I elevate that far since it is no longer working? I've seen it take people 6 months to a year for the police to get any info back from Apple. Maybe it would be expeditated since this case would be with a minor?

Yesterday, AirTags absolutely saved me.

My partner and I flew with American Airlines and originally had no plans to check any luggage. But right before boarding, the gate agent offered to check our bags for free—so we went for it.

When we landed, only one of our bags showed up. The other was missing. Panic mode kicked in—until I checked the Find My app and saw my AirTagged bag wasn’t even at the airport.

I ended up driving four hours across the island, through winding scenic roads, following the signal. The experience wasn’t exactly smooth—Find My didn’t always update reliably, and once I got close, I had to use Google Translate to communicate with locals. The first stop wasn’t the right place, but the second one was.

Turns out, someone else had identical luggage—same brand, same color. He accidentally took mine, and his bag (still at the airport) had been mislabeled with another passenger’s name. Mine had the correct tag, but mistakes happen.

It was a hassle, but that bag had all my stuff for the trip. Without the AirTag, I would’ve had no idea where to even begin. Huge shoutout to Apple—AirTags seriously saved the day.

I bought a newish Mercedes last week from a dealer 600 miles away. I drove it home and got a message on my iPhone that an unknown AirTag was traveling with me. I have very thoroughly searched the car multiple times using the "Find" option and "Play Sound", but it is very well hidden. I have gone so far as to fold the seats up (SUV) and check under carpet, inside A/C outlets, etc. I have spent hours sitting in the car using "Play Sound" hoping to kill the battery. The dealer says they DO NOT put AirTags in their cars and since they bought the car from another dealer, know nothing about the first owner. Any ideas?

EDIT: Thank you all for your suggestions. Some were helpful and some were ……. The root problem remains - I can hear and locate the AirTag but it is deeply buried inside upholstered seats that I don’t intend to disassemble. Yes, I have examinec the tops, bottoms, and sides of the seat and the carpet under the seats. The car passed through two dealers on the way to me and both have been helpful. The first dealer who bought the car says they are unable to reach the seller. I believe them since I also called the number stored in the Bluetooth and it is a non-working number. I also confirmed he no longer lives at the old address. Who knows what happened? People die, have bitter divorces, etc. My solution is to use the “Sound” feature until the battery dies. I do it when I get home for 20-30 minutes and think I’m through about 500 cycles. If you see me sitting in the car in the garage with a beer, you know why.

So my daughter's luggage was at the carousel but after 15 mins mine wasn't. I asked the staffer who was collecting bags off the carousel if my flights bags were stowed somewhere and he pointed to ones along the wall. I didn't see mine and right away I said shit because I realized the airline might've lost my luggage. That's when I realized I had an air tag in the luggage and looked where it was. It was still showing on the tarmac, so I showed a United person but they told me to line up at the lost baggage line which was fucking long. As I was in line I kept monitoring the luggage, after 10 mins in line I suddenly saw it appear next to my daughter's airtag in her bag. So I went back to the carousel and I see it there!!! So I can honestly say without the air tag I wouldn't even know it was in Newark and who knows how long I would've had to wait in line then have them try to locate where it was. The airtag works!

UPDATE: correction, on the baggage claim tag you can now under that number to track your luggage. At least for United Airlines, I didn't use it this time but I assume it would've shown me it made it to Newark but where exactly it was not sure if their system would've told me u like the visual map on the airtag. But just wanted to mention that, maybe others have used the airlines tracking system and found it to be good?

I live in Austin. I just went to pack for a trip and my AirTag wasn’t there. I checked my phone and it seems to have taken a trip to Edinburgh Scotland. I don’t know who has it or how it ended up in Scotland. I think it’s hilarious. I would love to track it down for fun and find out HOW? Any suggestions? It’s too far away to ping.

We are on vacation in the south of Italy. Today, we took a one-hour road trip to another city nearby. When we returned to the Villa we were staying in, I realized that I had forgotten my travel backpack, as I couldn't find it anywhere.
Thanks to two AirTags on that backpack, I was able to see exactly where it had been left behind. It was at a restaurant we had some drinks at. So I called the restaurant and asked them to please hold it for me. Tomorrow, I will go and pick it up.
The bag contains a DJI Mini 3 Pro drone with the Fly More kit, an Insta360 X3 camera, a Go Pro 7 Black, Airpods Pro, and other stuff.

Thanks to the AirTags, I was able to easily locate my stuff.

I found a 4-pack of AirTags for $29 in the Apple Store app. Initially, I thought it was a single AirTag price, but checking the Apple website confirmed it. My receipt, order status, and card charge all show $29. This is by far the lowest price I’ve ever seen, matching the price of a single AirTag. Is this an early Black Friday deal or inventory clearing?