AndiCui t1_j9m8bhs wrote on February 22, 2023 at 11:53 PM

Reply to comment by M365Certified in Apple is convinced my dog is stalking me. A vital AirTag safety feature is incorrectly notifying me every day. by MayoFetish

The problem is that the non-owner’s phone literally doesn’t know it’s the same AirTag after 24hrs.

The AirTag’s ID changes to prevent Bluetooth scanners to know who owns the AirTag across days, so for example a supermarket chain cannot rig up scanners to track unique visitors with AirTags across locations.

But because of that, there is no real way to tell the phone to ignore one specific AirTag forever, unless somehow it’s no more ID based.

Edit: typos and clarity

M365Certified t1_j9oucgl wrote on February 23, 2023 at 2:55 PM

Ok, cool security feature making the solution slightly more complicated, but...

Apple systems can absolutely know that's the same AirTag that was "muted" and its ownership hasn't changed (like if I stole an airtag out of the collar and reset it to be mine, Apple knows the AppleID linked has changed). So a check in with Apple's servers should be done before alerting, which it likely does already (they don't alert while my wife is with me because I am with my airtags), its only if airtag not with owner and airtag is with subject while subject moves to new place @ greater than 20 minutes or some such