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[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Tapping the AirTag icon on the screen will bring up information about the tracker in question — including a button to make it Play sound to help you track down its exact location.

This doesn’t seem like a good thing to have the ability to do? You can just click search and then force any AirTag that you find to play a noise?

[–] Colorcodedresistor@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think i get what you're stabbing at. This could be used as a nuisance for everyday normal air tag users. Pranks in class or wherever... in the end, it's the few stalkers that ruined air tags for everyone.

[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Bingo.

Reading some other comments it appears that maybe you can only do this to airtags that aren’t currently “with” the owner at the time, but I can’t confirm.

[–] russel@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

AirGuard, the android app, seems to have this ability too but tbh I have never had the chance to play a sound on the train. You have to be in range for I think at least 15 minutes before you can ring a tag

[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Still not great. Means anyone in a classroom, a plane, a train, a stadium, a workplace, etc can just start setting off AirTag at will.