User Successfully Tracks Package Across the UK with Apple AirTag

Take you wondered if yous could utilise AirTag to rails a mailed bundle? Well, someone did and the answer is yes, you lot can. An AirTag possessor from Stratford-upon-Avon, Britain sent the tracker to a friend in another city and was able to rail its movements.

AirTag User Successfully Tracks Package

According to a new mail on Intego (via MacRumors), Kirk McElhearn taped the AirTag to a card on a Fri afternoon and dropped it in the local mailbox. McElhearn then noticed that the package had reached the local sorting station in 30 minutes, which meant someone nearby had an iPhone continued to the Find My network.

McElhearn was able to cheque the current location at unlike intervals of fourth dimension. He had even set up a Mac script to take screenshots of the Discover My app every two minutes to document all the changes. The bundle successfully reached the destination the next day.

However, what makes this state of affairs concerning is that the recipient didn't become the 'AirTag found moving with you' alert. While one could debate that the AirTag was not technically moving and was stationary at the recipient'due south home, information technology is worth noting that Apple didn't alert the user regarding the presence of a nearby AirTag fifty-fifty subsequently three days.

Apart from iPhone alerts, AirTag besides plays a audio for at to the lowest degree xv seconds if it is separated from the possessor for a period of fourth dimension. The report didn't clarify if the recipient heard the sound. "My friend thinks he might accept heard a sound at some point, but he couldn't exist sure, because he had the TV on at the time," states the report.