AirTags: What are Apple’s new item trackers, and how exactly do they work?
Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. They are one of the smallest Apple products to be introduced, one of the longest awaited – and one of the first that you probably hope you never get to actually use. But the real trickery is the way that the AirTags make use of Apple’s “Find My” network, which is made up of the nearly billion devices that are running the right Apple software. Many of the features that are integrated into the AirTags to ensure they cannot be used for harm also mean that their use when finding something that has been stolen – rather than just lost – could be reduced. While Apple calls on its entire Find My network to help locate devices, that location information is kept to a much smaller group: the connection to the device’s owner is end-to-end encrypted, meaning that neither Apple nor any other devices that are used in the search will get information on the item they have helped locate.
Apple AirTags can be read by NFC-enabled Android phones but don't get too excited
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