This is my first ever airtag, I bought the 4 pack
Should I try to sell it and buy 2nd gen or just not bother and use the 1st gen?

AirTag was "last seen" more than 24 hours ago while I was out with it. For nearly all the time since I have had it located on the benchtop next to me. There had been no warning of a flat battery. Could there be something else wrong?

Edit to add: I have removed the battery for several seconds and placed it back in, but have not yet replaced it with a new battery. I also cannot identify that AirTag nor a few other AirTags when i put my iPhone next to them.

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None of my 8 airtags and other compatible tags are now displaying the directions option on either my iPhone 17e or Ipad Air. Batteries are new in the tags, and the devices are new and up to date. Rebooting doesn’t help, and location services are on.. I am in the Netherlands, so it can’t be a question of government policy ..at least I hope not!
Any suggestions?

I have one of those airtag holders that’s a small pouch. I always forget a coin for the shopping carts at stores, and i’m wondering: could putting a loonie in the pouch affect anything?

ETA: Loonies are magnetic
ETA2: Loonies are attracted by magnets. they are not magnets themselves.

Finally got my hands on the new AirTags 2! Looking forward to trying them out and seeing how they compare to the original AirTags.

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Hi, I just got an AirTag (2nd generation) for my wallet and set it up on my iPad.

In Find My, Show Contact Info is switched On and my phone number is added. I also turned on NFC on my Samsung phone.

I tried holding the back/top of the Samsung directly against both sides of the AirTag, without a phone case, but absolutely nothing happens—no notification or website opens.

Is this normal? Does the AirTag need to actually be marked as lost before a Samsung user can tap it with NFC and see my contact information? Or is there another setting I missed?

Thank yall'

My mom has an AirTag in our cars, I accepted the AirTag invite and I can see it under my devices. My question is, if I turn off my find my iPhone/location will she still be able to see my location if she has the AirTag in her devices as well? I was planning a small day trip and I just don’t want her to see where I’m going lol

I'm getting my soon to be teen an expensive backpack, that I want to put a tracker inside in case it gets lost. I don't want to deal with it beeping if it's not near its paired phone and I don't want to constantly get notifications if it's moving. If we forget it somewhere, I want to be able to locate it, if it gets lost in camp or school we want to be able to get it back.

(*it's a really expensive religious item in a backpack type case, getting a cheaper bag won't solve the problem)

I need some help tracking down an unknown AirTag that is somewhere on my car. I think it is somewhere on the outside because there is no sound inside, potentially under the hood or around the passenger side area.

I got the alert yesterday and was able to play the sound last night, but I couldn't find it in the dark. It sat in my garage overnight. Today, the "Find Nearby" function works, but the "Play Sound" button is disabled and just tells me to hold the item near my phone to identify it.

The main issue is that every time my phone detects the AirTag traveling with me, it shows up as a completely different device in the Find My app, even though it's the exact same one. Because my phone thinks it's a brand new device each time, it won't let me trigger the sound till it gets detected to be traveling with me again.

The speaker worked fine last night so it isn't broken. Has anyone dealt with this bug where an unknown tracker refreshes its ID and locks you out of playing the sound? Any workarounds to force it to beep?

I have a 2025 Mercedes-AMG E53, and my iPhone detected an AirTag that doesn’t belong to me.
I’ve tried Precision Finding, but it hasn’t been accurate enough to locate it. I can play a sound from the AirTag and clearly hear it coming from somewhere outside the car.
The strange part is that the sound gets significantly louder when I open the hood. It seems to be coming from somewhere underneath the engine, possibly slightly toward the passenger side.
I’ve checked around the wheels and inside the engine compartment, but I can’t find anything even though I can hear it. Interestingly, the sound seems quieter when I listen directly near the wheels.
I’m starting to suspect that someone deliberately placed it there (my brother)
Has anyone experienced something similar? Are there any common hiding spots around the engine, undertray, or frame that I should check? Is there any way to locate it more accurately without taking the car apart?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Ho installato un AirTag (come antifurto) collegato al mio iPhone su uno scooter che usa quotidianamente la mia ragazza. Anche lei ha un iPhone, ma dopo quasi un mese non ha mai ricevuto alcuna notifica a riguardo. Come mai ?

I managed to get all the way home without my backpack after work last night without a single alert. This happened a few weeks ago too, and I uninstalled and reinstalled the app (as per some solutions I saw on a Google search), and apparently it didn't work. I have a 'no notify' zone which is just my house, and work is not listed as a 'leave behind' zone for any devices.

I'm running the latest iOS on a iPhone15 Pro. Any ideas?

I have an item that has an AirTag inside it, but I have lost the item inside my house. The AirTag is working because it lets me know when I leave home that the item was left behind. However, when I try to play a sound it tries for a few seconds and then says “unreachable.” I have also tried to get the live directions towards the AirTag, but it just tells me it can’t find the signal and to move around, and moving around my house doesn’t work. Is there anything I can do except for just scouring the house until I find it? I lose things a lot and use the “play sound” feature all the time on my phone or AirPods when I lose them, so I was surprised that the play sound feature isn’t working on the AirTag.

Hey everyone, I plan to use an airtag as safety feature while I’m travelling alone but not quite sure if it’s a good idea. Have anyone had problems with Airtags? Some Tipps maybe?

So on the 7th we moved and then a day after I got a notification saying an unknown AirTag is with me. I checked it and it showed it moved from the old place to the new place (literally within like 4 minutes from each other) and now at the new place when I’m in my room it says AirTag detected. I assumed it was the upstairs neighbors but why would it go from our old house especially if that was only one floor? Is there a way to disable my location with this AirTag? Plus another one popped up last night, a second generation one. I would like to show it but I don’t want to post the address or house online so yea 😅

Thx for reading and any advice is helpful

There is an unknown AirTag in my mother’s car that I cannot find. She started getting notifications of this unknown AirTag on her iPhone a few months ago. Recently though, she’s been getting the maps of where she’s driven around where we live.

I’ve looked everywhere I can think of, inside and outside the car. None of us own an AirTag and no one else who’s been inside the car has lost one.

At first, I figured it was possibly neighbors or people walking around outside the house, but the multiple maps tell me it’s the car (or something in it).

I’ve tried multiple BLE apps, including Air guard and they are useless. This particular unknown air tag also seems to have had the sound removed, as she’s tried to play sound and we hear nothing. I’ve tried to use precision finding, but that seems to only work on items that have already been added to Find My.

She also just asked a police officer today if they can check the car and they said “they don’t do that”.

We’ve yet to have a mechanic search, but is this the only option? I’m starting to get worried as she thinks it may possibly be an ex-boyfriend. I know AirTags don’t work as GPS, but the owner of it is obviously checking up on it.

Thanks!

I used the AirTag fine when I first got it. Sat in a drawer and the battery died so changed it and now it seems the notify isn’t working.

I have no location exceptions on (except it keeps turning on automatically an old address of mine which I lived at way before getting the AirTag - this isn’t linked to my Apple account/iPhone in anyway I can see now?!). I don’t think this should be an issue anyway since it is no where near where I am now!

I’ve tried removing and readding the air tag but still just the same issue!

Genuinely curious if anybody does this. My umbrellas stay in one place at home, one place in my car, and one place at work. If it’s not there, it’s in my hand.

Arguably jacket as well, but when was the last time you lost an article of clothing that wasn’t a sock? Am I the outlier here?

Just seems funny that those are there, and not something like “game console” or “lunchbox” at that point. (Also, I understand limiting to emojis from a “simplistic ui” standpoint, but if you’re gonna have that, add a proper wallet emoji?? Not to mention your contacts in Find My are custom images, anyways. Both my car keys and spare car keys are the same emoji, because the only other option is ugly).

I have been using JioTag2 and JioFind 4G for last 6 months and I am disappointed by their location accuracy and customer support and update time interval of location in their app. Since JioTag2 only works if there are suitable established connected devices around it, it is not a true gps tracker. For example, if the device is placed at a remote area then it won't be able to give us its location. JioFind2 however, is a true gps tracker. It does give the location using GPS but I have found the location update to be very slow and inaccurate. For example, say I've place the device in my bike then when the bike starts moving from rest, it takes a lot of time to update its position in the application. This is a deal breaker. The customer support isn't that great either.

So, I started reviewing Ajjas Go and found out that its customer service is even worse than Jio. Some devices start malfunctioning after a few days and some customers got used products. So, I am looking for some better alternatives for a true gps tracker(wireless) for my bike.

PS: I've had one of my bike stolen in the past so I am looking for something that gives accurate result and with less delay. I don't want to use wired gps trackers because my bike is new(I bought it yesterday) so I don't want to open its front part and mess with its wire connections.