Ars TechnicaAndroid phones can now tell you if there’s an AirTag following you
Google says its own tracker ecosystem is on hold until iOS has the same protection.
Danie van der Merwe@arstechnica but I carry my own AirTags without any iPhone as I carry an Android phone. Does this mean my Android phone will keep warning me about my own AirTags? This all seems to be designed around stalkers, but what about legitimate AirTag users who don't have an iPhone?
Site Reliability Enby🏳️⚧️🏁🔦📈🐺👗😷@danie10 @arstechnica I assume it allows allowlisting...
@SiteRelEnby that's not mentioned in Google's blog. I would have hoped so, yes. They just mention disabling all alerts for tags.
Fubaroque@danie10 @SiteRelEnby The iPhone of my girlfriend does exactly that. Keeps warning her about the airtag on my keyring, whenever I am not carrying my iPod touch. No way to turn it of and rather annoying.
@fubaroque @SiteRelEnby yes the focus does not seem to have been on legitimate users. They should allow the remembering of a specific tracker and mute just its alerts.
@danie10 @SiteRelEnby I just filled out Apple’s feedback form to explain the problem and to propose this improvement.
Please do help with getting the message across: https://www.apple.com/feedback/ 🥳
@fubaroque thanks, that is appreciated. Apple has been on the forefront of both privacy and protecting people from stalkers. But their assumption that everyone is fully inside the ecosystem, is the flaw that led to this probably.
meejah@danie10 @fubaroque Also, prematurely releasing a thing without considering the consequences. They made the problem, and only now (years later!) have a partial fix.
(...and obviously this doesn't help people without a cellphone, or one without Apple or Google OSes).