Isn’t it on android you have to download an app and it only works with the app open? Or has that changed?
I have two phones, one android (work) and one personal (iOS). They use different accounts so no connections between them. My android has never gone off, even with my bike that has an AirTag. My iPhone has gone off with a work colleagues AirTag but not the android phone which was in the same pocket the entire time.
tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 11 months ago
It’s built into the OS since apple and google agreed common standards for tag detection.
The google compatible tags (which aren’t launched yet, possibly because of stuff like this) will be detected by apple devices too.
YoungLiars@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Glad they were so proactive to have a better solution, the app situation was a load of crap. Looked it up and found the setting on my phone and it’s enabled. It appears my AirTag wouldn’t set it off as i have the iPhone with the tag and therefore it is not considered separated. I’ll turn my iPhone off next time I ride my bike to see if that causes it to detect it.
cynar@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’ve definitely seen the alert from Android, with no app installed. I knew about the tags in question however, so it wasn’t an issue. It took several hours to notice however. I’d imagine a false positive is a lot more of an issue than false negatives.