GO TO A POLICE STATION NOW!!! SOMEONE IS TRACKING YOU AND IT MIGHT BE FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING
What an unhinged response ngl
Y’all are probably creeps if you’re saying what I’m saying is unhinged. Wake the Fuck up.
That’s not how that works, but sure.
A lot of people are saying that an AirTag has been planted on your belongings or car. This is a real and scary possibility. However…
I will note that your phone sensing an AirTag nearby can also be a glitch. Back in 2022 I freaked out because I got this alert on my phone, and I was terrified because I was in my dorm (and there was a real threat that someone I knew might have done that). I looked everywhere and there was no tag to be found, and the “play sound” thing didn’t work either.
I contacted campus police and everything. Eventually, they came to the conclusion that there wasn’t an AirTag at all. Turns out, it was a common glitch at that time for iPhone users to receive a notification that there was an AirTag with them when there was none at all.
The source of the problem? My AirPods. I don’t remember what I did to resolve the issue, but it probably had something to do with unpairing them. I may have disconnected Bluetooth first, I don’t remember unfortunately.
I don’t know if the glitch I experienced is the same issue you are having now. Whether or not this is a real threat, take the notification seriously. If you have accessories like AirPods with you, try disconnecting Bluetooth, or unpairing them. If that doesn’t work, search your car and belongings thoroughly.
Take care OP. Please be safe.
We found the car thief!
Please do not go home.
Wouldn’t it be the opposite? Go home as fast as possible? Cause a burglar knows you’re 200 miles from home right now.
I’d say it depends on whether you’re armed or not. I wouldn’t want to go home and run into a potentially armed burglar if I didn’t have the means to defend myself.
on the other side of that argument, please have someone check on your house, as there’s a possibility someone put it by you to know how much time they have in your home before you get back
OP, listen to this guy.
Don’t go home until you find it. And if you’re staying somewhere overnight, park your car a decent walking distance away from where you’re staying.
Also, as others have said - contact the police.
Holy shit. Great call.
If it’s not your own car, call the owner & ask about it. People put AirTags on their own property & even their kids for safety reasons.
If it is, deff drive directly to the nearest police station & have someone inspect the entire vehicle inside & out.
All these comments saying one was placed on your car, definitely a possibility.
Here’s a question no one is asking though, were you driving with someone else? If your passenger had an AirTag in their purse or backpack, you would also be notified.
I have one in my wallet but my family has never been notified. Is it because they’re in my contacts or something?
This! We have one in our stroller for Disney and my friend got the notification while driving to Disney with us and was confused.
My favorite story of this was someone said they had an AirTag planted on them at Disney. Turns out they grabbed the wrong stroller that had the same Disney sweater in it someone else bought because it was cold. Disney sells a lot of them on those days that are exactly the same lol.
The stroller would have to be the exact same too, not just the sweater.
I always get this notification when I walk my friend’s dog because it has an airtag on its leash. This dog is absolutely obsessed with pigeons and has almost ripped the leash right out of my hands a couple times when we came across some unexpectedly. Pretty smart use of an airtag imo
Yep - my fiance had a panic attack because I accidentally left my airtag in my golf clubs and left them in the back of her car. She drove all over, was about 40 miles from home and it started alerting her lol whoops…
My wife and her sister went to visit their brother in the hospital in a neighboring state. Halfway there they got an AirTag notice and freaked out.
Wife took my laptop bag that I had an AirTag in.
Is it not supposed to notify others only if the owner of the AirTag isn’t around ? I think so
And occasionally AirPods with Find My integration will still occasionally false positive the owner or a travel companion
It’s not supposed to give notifications if it’s nearby the owner. Like I have one in my wallet/car but it doesn’t notify people I’m with because I have my phone.
It does happen sometimes though. I’ve had AirTag alerts randomly during trips where it belonged to someone else on the trip.
Mine notifies everyone I’m with, both ppl in my contacts and ppl not in my contacts
No it wouldn’t…
As long as the owner is nearby with their Bluetooth enabled phone, it updates their app and that is it.
If the owner is not around, it will update via other people’s Bluetooth phones and if it updates via someone else’s phone too much, they get notified.
I’ve never gotten one when my wife was with me and her wallet too. There must be some intelligence to know the “owner” is close enough that it doesn’t alert too.
Or were you driving a U-Haul? Mine didn’t have one but did have a warning and a disclaimer I had to sign
Here’s a question no one is asking though, were you driving with someone else? If your passenger had an AirTag in their purse or backpack, you would also be notified.
I got one such notification driving my mom’s dogs to the vet.
Then I remembered they both wear AirTags around their collars.
If the passenger had one then presumably they also had their phone with them which would not trigger this alarm. I have one on my cat and anytime i am away for more than 24hrs it triggers warnings on my partner’s device
it never detected near AirTag for my passengers.
You are being tracked
Safety aside (and OP I hope whoever you borrowed the car from owns the AirTag) I’m curious how you drove across Lake Michigan
A shortcuts a shortcut.
That means one might be on your car and someone is tracking you - if it’s tracking you for 200 miles constantly that means it’s with you or on your car / person etc
If it was tracking you for let’s say 1 mile and stopped , than it could of just been one In your vicinity and than you left the range of it
Apple purposely alerts you when an air tag is tracking you (any air tag even if you don’t own one) because of the “dark side” of air tags (criminals use it to rape, stalk , set up , track etc) - so being it’s been tracking you for 200 miles , it’s deft on your car somewhere or in your personal belongings
Did your wife/husband come with you on this trip?
You should navigate to a police station or call the police
I keep mine in the spare tire. Also if he shares the AirTag with you (which you can now do in iOS 17) you won’t get that message. As for why it took so long is that it won’t always show that a tracker is with you, unless you go home (not 100% of the time, but that’s what happens to me). Also needs to be with you for ~15 minutes, then when it sees you’ve stopped and the tracker is still near, it knows to notify you (same reason why your apt neighbors AirPods won’t ping you, but your passengers AirPods would if you have a friend over).
Someone might have put one on your car
Straight to the police!
Someone wants to know where you are without you knowing and you probably don’t want them to know. Check easily/quickly accessible areas of the car (inside gas door, wheel wells, under license plates). Also, please mind your surroundings before getting out and note cars that might be following you.
How would they not know if people are notified there’s an air tag near them?
Please dear god tell us you went to the polixe