unknown airtag warning - under what circumstances will it show?
I asked a staff member at an apple store and could not get a definitive answer to this basic question: under exactly what circumstances will an ios device not paired with a specific airtag show a warning that this particular airtag is present?
So I set one airtag up connected to my iphone, and placed the airtag in a non-metallic briefcase. The 4 people including myself all with iphones (and ipads) turned on along with the briefcase sat inside a passenger car and travelled for >10 hours and not once did any of the other unpaired devices show any notification that an unknown airtag was present.
The staff at the apple store thinks that the paired phone must be at least 33 feet away for other ios devices to show such notification. I have yet to do that experiment. But is there documentation somewhere that actually shows how it is supposed to work? Thanks
Addition: I used the Identify Found Item feature from Find My app on someone else's iphone and placed that iphone directly over top of the airtag paired to my phone. That's the instruction given on the screen. But that phone could not see this airtag at all even after trying 3 times over 5 minutes. I've also just done the same test with an ipad which also could not find this airtag. And all this time my own iphone was turned off & >30ft away and neither devices automatically showed notification that an unknown airtag was present.
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