Apple Air Tag on base

I can't see any harm in it, but the tag has to be within BT range of a Find My enabled Apple device in order for you to be able to track it.

@jim-frame?ÿ

I thought air tags send their location to the icloud periodically so as to avoid the BT range issue??ÿ ?????ÿ

Posted by: @flga-2-2

I thought air tags send their location to the icloud periodically so as to avoid the BT range issue??ÿ ?????ÿ

Google finds this:?ÿ Your AirTag sends out a secure Bluetooth signal that can be detected by nearby devices in the Find My network. These devices send the location of your AirTag to iCloud

"AirTags do not have a defined range because they work within the range of Apple's Find My network. This means as long as an AirTag is within Bluetooth range of?ÿanybody's?ÿiPhone (or other Apple device), it can passively communicate with it and then help you locate it. For example, you can locate an AirTag that's hundreds of miles away so long as somebody with an iPhone walks near it. However, if you lose an AirTag in a remote-but-nearby place that nobody is likely to walk by, like the woods behind your house, you're unlikely to locate it as quick."?ÿ gearpatrol.* .com.

Can anyone clear this up? I'm too umm, "lazy" to research it. ?????ÿ

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it needs a nearby iPhone (or other Find My enabled Apple device) to work.?ÿ If no one with an iPhone is within BT range, you won't be able to track it.

PS?ÿ Find My can be turned off.?ÿ I don't know how many Apple users do that, though.

Here is the problem with the air tags. I just had a bike stolen off the side of my house. I had one hidden under the waterbottle holder. If it is away from the Iphone for more than three days it stops giving you the location. Then you have to put it in lost mode and it will notify anyone near with an iphone that they are transporting an airtag. I think they did this so people couldn't stalk girlfriends etc. So it basically makes it useless to use to try and hid it on something and find stolen equipment. I am not sure about tile pro. I think that may be the way to go. I also saw a rep[ort the other day that criminals are putting tiles on very expensive cars and then when they find them with the app they can go to the house and steal them. What a world we live in.