Apple AirTags are being used to steal high-end cars
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ย. 2024
- Police are alerting motorists to a new high-tech scam involving Apple AirTags.
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Tips to avoid car theft:
Stay TFO of San Francisco.
😂
Yeah, because car theft doesn't happen anywhere else
Couldn’t agree more…as a matter of fact just STFO of sh!t hole California 😂
@@kimberly2915 I wish people who talk chit about California, would put what glorious state there from....
Yeah like every part of SF is bad 🙄🙄 sorry to tell you but you watch too much news. Now Oakland ... that would make more sense 🤣 go to Oakland sir or mam
Use 2 tags to avoid being stolen with 1 tag, damn it Apple is making a killing out of this nonsense.
That’s just the full-proof method. You can just hide one in your car to potentially track the thief if it gets stolen. What the reporter is saying is that the thiefs might actually look for one in your car. So he suggests two so you can hide one in a somewhat obvious place to give them the satisfaction of finding one, but you have another deeply hidden in the car somewhere
Now this will force Samsung users to buy Apple.
@@753238 Samsung had these months before apple 🤦🏾
Not like most new cars today already have location trackers hardwired in them
@@christanomeredith1497 yea but most thieves own a apple phone, lol
i love the idea of a rapidly escalating airtags war: "ha HA i'll just put two airtags so if the thieves steal my car i'll track THEM" and then the thieves have another three airtags hidden underneath the car. But don't worry you have four hidden in the upholstery.
Apple AirTags about to 📈🚀
Great selling technique for Apple, eh? Criminals might steal your car after tracking it with Apple's product, so YOU should buy 2 of their product. Are you scared enough to yet? That's their technique.
Don’t forget the AirTag will be installed on criminals with record. Anytime a pedophile get close to school it will beep
@@omniminokyo2 for real? Wdym by installing it? Like microchip inside their bodies?
And in the midst of this Chase Apple Makes Money from it💰💰💰
Too funny, all these years and we are back to using "The Club"...LOL
Still got mine,lol.
still works
Hahaa haven’t thought about those in a long time
outdated gadgets be hacked🤣
My honda was stolen with the club. They bent it off the steering wheel
This is insane. I was in Puerto Rico for 10 days back in July and kept getting this apple air tag tracking warning on my phone. We were in a rented jeep and probably looked like easy targets. Luckily we traveled pretty far almost every day.
The rental company was tracking their Jeep not you. HAHA.
@@forcedair92gt94 I dunno it didn't happen for the first few days in San Juan and then started when we got to ponce. I just disabled it after it popped up a few times. Seems like a bad way to track a rental car.
@@willishadams I had it happen to me near my home. I kept the tracker on it and called the cops who had no idea what to do. So I just waited and lo and behold, a couple of teens pull up in my driveway at 2 AM at night and the cops came within minutes. According to the idiots, it was a harmless prank that they were pulling because they mistook my car for a friends. Dumbasses.
I was going to use this on my motorcycle in case it gets stolen, but are you telling me that your phone will automatically tell you that its there? Kinda defeats the purpose of it.
@@tunedskillsz yeah if you have an iPhone and there's an air tag near by it will send an alert. I was able to disable it so I think anyone with an iPhone could do the same.
I disagree with what he said in regards to pulling over to a quite spot in the event that you find one on your car. I recommend you drive to the nearest Police station and park right in front. Then call the police and let them know why you’re there so they can send someone to meet you. NEVER drive anywhere other than a police station, this way they won’t know where you live. These people can be, and often are dangerous.
@@AlphaOmegaSigma07 Exactly my point. Thank you.
Also they might even collect fingerprints from the thieve
@@emiliorosa7628 why would they even advise parking in a quiet spot? like wtf if you were being stalked (not in car) you'd try to move to a place with people for help.
In USA it doesn't matter if they park in front of a police station, the car will be gone lol
How about jail the car thief for 10 years no parole if caught.
The problem with that is there they'll be incentivized to commit higher crimes to prevent getting caught. If they're gonna get 10 years may as well beat the person unconscious and steal the car.
Strangely he drove off into the ocean with my car. 🤣
@Paul, but that would mean justice is served. Politicians/lawmakers don't write laws to ensure justice. (Hint: Because they are covering their own criminal asses.)
Cruel and unusual punishment. You don't get 10 years for killing someone while drunk driving.
it's just a goddamn car. 10 years no parole? sheeeesh
Apple should have named it the iJack.
iBitch...
Yo.
Or Apple Jacks…
@@johnwalck3133 I believe that is the name of their Fleshlight.
iJack, iPedo, iRape... all seem pretty valid tags because that's how the dark side will use them.
Winner!!!!
How to avoid getting your car stolen:
Step 1: drive an old POS.
Drive a manual. 80% of the people nowadays, don’t know how. Lol
@@ddeniz125 That won’t work in Europe lol
He says "ONLY" $30. And continues to recommend that people buy it. Sounds like an Apple ad.
Then says buy 2...
If $30 seems expensive to you. You are doing something terribly wrong in your life.
@@Rikimkigsck its not that it's expensive, its more like people don't want to waste money on junk that's overpriced.
Yep. A company that creates a product, that you need to own several of their products to protect yourself against. Apple is evil since Jobs died
I think he meant that in comparison to what it could do. A mere $30 dollars can be used to steal $50,000+ cars.
These are fantastic for tracking down porch pirates, too.
But you've got to find a way to prevent apple telling the thieves that they're being tracked.
Buy literally any other tracking product?
Yeah, but its important. My 15 year old niece had some creep hide an airpod in her backpack and tracked her with that. So many stalkers out there
@@pismodude2 Right?!?! It's like everyone thinks this is a revoluationary new technology even though GPS trackers have been out for years. Apple just took one and made it easy to integrate it into a persons iphone where they can also track their devices all in one spot.
@@liamwelsh5565 take it easy mate. That's what they always do and most people don't really care who did first or whatever. It's what it is
Instead of pre-emptively putting an airtag in your package, why not just bring your package inside? And what, exactly, is your plan once you've tracked down the thief, anyway?
I like the way he says once you find it the tracker can be deactivated. I think the deactivation device is called a hammer
That’s not what he meant.
When your device finds the the tracker (he should have said when your iOS device finds a tracker signal following you), your iOS device will tell you a tracker is following you. And then prompts you with the option to disable the tracker even if you don’t know where the physical item is.
This news seems propaganda because, if somebody else is tracking you due to AirTags, the first thing you would do is disable them as soon as you hear the beep or the phone notification. These devices were designed to prevent unauthorized tracking. Otherwise if stolen, how do they even know there was an AirTag involved?
I use one in my car, and (when my Bluetooth is disabled) I can’t move 200 feet before it starts notifying my passenger that it is moving.
Tie it to a bird and let it fly away. Good luck tracking that!
You can just take the battery out…. It’s literally faster than using a hammer
Glad I drive a shitty car.
💯💯💯😂😂😂
Good that I don't even drive a car lol
Exactly! My family has a 12 year old Toyota and a 16 year old Subaru.
Everyone has 16 year old Subaru’s in the SF.
No reason to steal.
I am smelling lawyers who is gonna capitalize on that 😉 Apple needs to get ready.
More like a creep dropping it in someone's purse and following her home.
Mechanic told me once the only sure way to stop theft is to have a hidden fuel cutoff. And even then it won't work if they tow it.
No your right that's all or take the starter or pump fuse out
Or drive a car with a manual transmission.
@@Zonewest my 5 speed honda with a steering wheel lock was stolen. I should have put a kill switch 🧐
I'm glad I drive an old ugly bucket of a car.
@@gurnblanston3210 Manual transmission makes it easier to start and steal...the car just has to be sett to acc and push started ...I've see it done to v echicles even with breath test immobilizers...
interesting that apple made a product that they knew damn well could and therefore would be used this way, and then the media reports that the best way for car owners to protect themselves is to buy two of them. 😂
make the problem then sell you the solution business 101
Just a clever marketing ruse by apple. Fear sells. “The best way to prevent it from happening is to buy 2 of them”, LOL!! Just get an transistor radio and search for the product. The antenna will make it static loudly.
@SaltyBrains It’s actually pretty hilarious that people don’t seem to realize that Tile and Samsung had similar products out years before Apple made AirTags. Goes to show the kind of market dominance Apple has when its competitors products don’t even blip on the radar of the public consciousness despite having many years’ head start. Even the thieves in question didn’t think of using Tile or Samsung despite this MO being technologically feasible at the consumer level for nearly a decade now. GPS trackers are hardly a novel technology, yet everyone seems to be treating them like something out of Star Trek.
it’s probably helped prevent property be stolen more then its helped
@@williamlin2076 its helped more then its helped.. got it.
This happened to a friend. He found it, left it, and came out of the house with his brother, both pointing scatterguns, shouting “drop the gun” as they pressed their weapons to the unarmed perps heads.
Did they pull the trigger? Tempting unfortunately....
I'm surprised. How do they steal these "high-end cars"? Most end-cars have brake embolized and such now. These aren't cars where you can just break into and start it.
it's a sensationalized piece. Just fox riding on the retail theft hype, none of this is real.
@@l00tur He did say high end vehicle and F-150 in the same sentence. LOL.
Actually many of them are experts at what they do, think about it. They have all the time in the world to learn technology and usually they relay from the key fob to the car. Using a relay placed against the house. They can start it remotely and drive away.
Usually the high-end cars they're stealing are done by organized criminals
@@l00tur no, of course it's not real. Nobody really steals cars ...
I had my car stolen a month ago. There are many ways to steal a car, and if I was a thief I would absolutely utilize this method. At least people are now aware to keep an eye out if there is one 1tracking them.
It's not the most common method but obviously it happens
@@carpo719 missed my point entirely. No one is using “AirTags” to steal Lamborghinis or anything is what I’m saying. This is just a sound bite that didn’t have enough to make into a proper story. What you have here is a fringe piece. It’s literally fabricated
my god what a miserable time to be alive, glad I don't own a car
I can't agree more..happy holidays..hope we survive it
@Joe Duke or maybe you can try to stop with the “me me me” mindset and take a step back, and realize that it’s a *good thing* not everyone and their dog owns a vehicle on this planet. You dolt. My god..
Imagine if there were these things called stalkers & predators.. don’t even need a car for them to enjoy dropping one of these into a kids backpack or a girl’s purse at a Starbucks..
my god obviously you never heard of history if you think this is a miserable time to be alive lol
@Complex Ez really bad false equivalence my man.
But isn't stealing cars legal now in California?
it is and its fun
yup with covid criminals are not going to prison anymore. word is spreading around to other criminals
Reason 300 why I love my car.
A massive old bright yellow manual truck won't get stolen.
Me too love my crappy minivan
You guys underestimate crack heads.
You must not live in San Francisco. They will steal anything. They need to steal a vehicle to get to the vehicle that they want to steal.
They’d steal that pos too
"Criminals are using Apple AirTags to steal your cars, so buy Apple AirTags to track your cars! Better yet, buy two per car! Also, hey Apple, sponsor please?"
Apple, the arms dealer of the future. 🤔
they can be disabled once the car is stolen by the person stealing the car lol
@@rochester3 they might know where the car is but you’ll know where they are once they get moving
seriously. they didnt want the bad publicity lol
It's only a matter of time till they wash our cars and search for tags
So no use of Airtag if it doesn't counter the stealing and only enhaces chances of getting mugged.
Let me fix those instructions in case someone sneaks an airtag on your vehicle.
1. Locate airtag as instructed.
2. Instead of disabling airtag, find nearest parked cop car and hide it somewhere on that vehicle.
Or just reset it and you have a free airtag to use to track your car
Developing countries are moving away from car locks and SF is going back to using car locks… amazing
How to stop a thief from stealing your ride if you catch them? Install an automatic detonator.
One other thing you can do. Drive an old beater that no one wants to steal.
Tips to avoid car theft
1. Vote republican
2. buy a gun
3. enforce laws on the books
4. Move to Texas.
The problem were finding out in California is the law says cops can't chase you if it's a misdemeanor. A traffic infraction, yes they can chase, but broke into a car an stole a laptop? Nope, all you have to do is flee and the cops can't chase. Stole under $950 worth of retail product? Nope, cops can't chase you. This is the problem.
@@rnettles6241 Houston has a massive crime rate. You must be living on a farm somewhere having nightmares about rattlesnakes coming to get your cattle. How many times you been abducted? Did they beam you up and all that?
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Two out of the three I agree with.
Wow, sounds like a GREAT SELLING TECHNIQUE for Apple. Tell people their cars are being stolen with their product, and that YOU CAN BUY THEIR PRODUCT TOO to be able to track your car when it is stolen.....using their product. Scare people into buying your product. WHAT A GREAT SALES TECHNIQUE!!
It's funny cause this suggests you buy two at this point.
That’s what I thought. Big ad for Apple
But wait! You can buy an Apple car to track down your order car!
Wow, just looks like the vaccine sell technique
Inside Edition advice: "leave trunk and car door open to show nothings there"
But they are stealing the car. Their interest isn’t the objects inside the car.
Also bring the steering wheel with you in case they’re gonna hijack it.
bluetooth jammer, although that is likely illegal... wouldn't want to interfere with harvesting peoples information!
Every time I see a club used it's always on a car no one would want to steal anyways
That is why I still use a club to this day
*Bluetooth low energy scanner*
Download the app and scan around and under your car that say ppl are using these tile and tags to stalk woman too. KEEP SAFE OUT HERE PEOPLE
Does that detect Jeb Bush too?
Everybody may not be trying to steal you car.. Some are trying to follow you home..break into your home or worse. Apple didn't quite think these air tags all the way out...
It’s hardly something unique to Apple’s design or implementation. Tile trackers and even Samsung’s Galaxy SmartTag function virtually identically to Apple’s AirTags and carry the same risk of someone using them nefariously. The only difference is that Apple is Apple, so Apple’s version of the product is the one that gained traction over its competitors and entered the public consciousness (see: iPod, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and AirPods). There’s no reason that Tile or Samsung’s products can’t be used for the same purposes other than people not realizing those products exist in the first place.
Why do I suddenly feel that this was actually a commercial...
They're also being used to stalk women and follow them home.
Thats not important. We are discussing SERIOUS matters right now, the protection of our brand new vehicles.
STOLEN in SF:
Wife & Lexus.
Reward for Lexus.
So they can be culturally enriched by joggers.
This device is causing people their lives, Everyone please be safe & careful My Friends.
I bought those air tags because I've had 2 vehicles stolen and my parents had a vehicle stolen in san Francisco. The vehicles never left san Francisco. I want to at least be able to track my car down if it gets stolen again. So no it's not a terrible product.
What if the thieves have an iPhone and the get the alert with the Air Tag?
Sounds like you’d be better off moving
Yeah happens when you live n a shit hole known as
San Francisco
@@jowbloe4700 San Fran answer: ban air tags lol
@@ponolovefarms3926 yea I need too. Shits out of hand
Tech companies seem very obsessed with making things that track everything. We have a few terms for such people. "Stalker", "Psycho" etc :)
You forgot “ex girlfriend.”
We just can't win in life. Work hard for things and someone will come up with a new way to take it. Damn it!! I'm tired of these crooks.
Drive a manual & have kill switches
You’d imagine we’ve moved on from the 80’s when cars were easy to steal but nooo
0:55 What about people who don't have an iPhone?
The trackers can be jammed. Just use a jammer that jams data, but not voice. It is illegal in the USA to jam voice, but not data. You can foil potential thieves by jamming their trackers.
Can you please explain? How do we do that?
It's illegal to jam any band that's not in the public domain but I believe that air tags use Bluetooth so that should be public domain. It will mess with nearby Bluetooth devices but should be legal as long as you don't interfere with other bands.
@@Sulfen Bluetooth has a very limited range. These devices are using GPS and wifi to find you.
@@nismo2070 they only use Bluetooth. The gps information approximation is used from the nearby iPhones. This is why AirTags are only able to be tracked when another iPhone is nearby.
This is the most elaborate Air Tag ad I have ever watched.
Sweet! This is like a spider tracer that Spiderman uses in the comic books!
Yeah I saw this in the 1990s Spiderman cartoon
Couldnt apple track whos assigning these airtags to their phone and identify whos stealing these cars?
Love how WHO really makes the most money and benefits most without stealing.
so my '77 Pinto station wagon is vunerable?
It does have pretty nice 8 track in it, 'but missing a hubcap
Apple makes out either way
“block one car with another car”
oh no i can’t steal the car because there’s another one parked behind it. 💀
How exactly does tracking the car make any difference? As if there's no way to steel a car without tracking it?
So they can wait for it to be in a more opportune location like the person's home, they use a relay to start the car from the house
Everyone needs to share this. Dam game changes every day
Nothing new since you can share your location with cell phone. Criminals would use a cell phone then.
Make apple discontinue this
The thing is when the news media "shows you how to track your car" the thieves will just look at this video and know where you place it. I will just do my best to hide the tracker
Just in time for Xmas, the iScanner. “Hey, Siri. Scan my car for unauthorized Air Tags.”
Don't park in your garage go straight to a police station... straight to a police station wear some gloves give it to the cop.. so they can test for fingerprints... trust me follow my words
They won’t test it for fingerprints. That costs money. If your car wasn’t stolen, then no crime worthy enough has been committed.
You can’t get police interested without a body.
@@GH-oi2jf well I guess I got to take matter into my own hands 👊🏻🧐
I keep a bunch of angry hornets in my glovebox as a deterrent
Use Smith and Wesson, but the fear of God into the scumbags.
So if I don't have a iPhone, I'm doomed 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
Nonsense to me. why do they need to track you at your home? they still need to break in and somehow start the engine.
How is this different from them just driving around neighborhoods and stealing cars they like?
More and more cars are push button start. The professional thieves have devices that can replicate the RFID code that your key emits. The reason they follow you home is the keys are guaranteed to be in the house when the car is in the driveway. That’s why I keep all my keys inside a mylar bag when not in use.
@@mtunofun1 or just break into the house, steal the key, and go. Plus, a house it a much quieter location than, say, a mall parking lot
My understanding of how the airtags work is that they require an iphone nearby to send a signal back to its owner with its location. The best way of not being a victim of airtag theft is getting rid of your iphone. Use Android instead. Also, after 2 days of being separated from its owner, the airtag will automatically play a sound so it can be found.
? Android users can fall victim to airtags placed by other people, thats why apple created an App to let android users detect those tags
Couldn’t the thieves just use two tags? Thx Cyber Guy.
You're no where near the cyber guys level of intellect. It's best to be quiet, and listen to his wise words of advice.
@@MisterUrbanWorld smart people don’t usually have common sense.
They could just drive to a nice neighborhood to see where the nice cars to steal are. Why would they buy a tag to put on your car to see where you live.
ada dumping hard POS coin
@@d.b.1176 Lol
A steering wheel lock like the club don't work....a simple hack saw to the steering wheel defeats the lock that's why they don't sell them anymore...
Who would carry a saw?? It draws attention. I have a 2002 Lexus and to this day, still use the club and it works well
When I worked for Batman, we used them all the time, works like a charm...🤭
Can I put one in my husband's bag? That way I can track his whereabouts in case he has a medical episode.
You mean when he visits his mistress?
It’s an Apple feature that comes with the device. Sharing is Apple’s philosophy.
@@gurnblanston3210 how? They don’t own any factories doofus.
@@gurnblanston3210 I push carts and bagged groceries at 16, was I the victim of child labor?
Stop being a drama queen.
Are you being intentionally stupid or are you really that naive about Chinese child and slave labor?
@@spacini take your Midol and then we can talk.
@@bobbyright2010 damn. Apparently I can’t call you a moron, although it’s an accurate description for who you’re being in this comment.
Prosecute criminals to the fullest extent of the law and this wont be such a big problem.
If you can't download that app on a Android it should be seen as a way to blackmail people into buying apple phones or they could get kidnapped
I bought myself a tow truck and I tow the cars I want.
The joke would be on the theives with me. I am professionally paranoid and I do not call law enforcement. Most every tweaker and thief in my neck of the woods know of me, some personally because of their poor life choices. I caught a guy breaking into my shop once. We had a nice "chat" and I informed him that the only reason I was letting him live was to inform his associates that my property carries the death sentence.
Must be nice that you don’t live in California where protecting property would put you in big trouble
@@elitestar I am in California, waaaay up north. Different up here.
I have a backhoe for rent. 😁
@@roadwarrior3315
Yup. Been there. I would call people up there are cautiously courteous not polite but not rude either and they're not there to be your friends. Until you live there for a while and the waitress knows you by your first name. Everybody knows everyone "up there".
@delreydavid the fukoutta here with your bullshit. Laws only pertain when law enforcement is involved. Dancing with the devil in the pale moon light only involves me and the level of pain and destruction I decide to met out. Been handling my own issues out here for many years.
I love this Apple tech! I use them to simultaneously stalk my 3 ex-wives.
There needs to be alert systems on phones not just on IPhone's but Android phones need to have the ability to detect them.
iPhones*
This really isn't such a widespread issue that that's necessary. Trust me, if someone is that committed to tracking you or your vehicle they have other methods of doing so that won't alert any phone.
Except that would make sense and not money.
It's used to track. Not to steal.
If it is a new and useful idea you can be assured someone will put it to a evil and wicked use. Good “rule of thumb”. 👍👍👍
This news benefited normal people and criminals
How much Progress do we need already ???
When will all the Suckers finally Smarten Up ???
lmao i love one of the solutions is "well the bad guys buy one and can steel your car, but if you buy TWO then the bad guys can't steal your car"
apple is loving this.
Yup, airtags are a double edged sword. They can be used for both good and bad, with the bad having terrible consequences. The fact that airtags are so damn convenient and abundant makes it easy for almost anyone to get a bucket load of them.
Who ever saw this coming? Literally everyone
It’s smart af. I believe couples are using these to check on there husbands
That's super smart and cheaper then hired help
So you can yt this story. Trackers have been out for years. Last month a woman was killed after she found a non appl tracker on her car by her ex. She had a restraint and alerted police and he still killed her. Look it up. Like anything it maybe used for good or evil.
Couples can already track their spouses with Apple Watches or iPhones
They need to make it so that you can track the user to that we can catch the perp.
0:50 this leaves android uses in the dark.
Why do I feel like this was advertising for Apple
This is why I got a DUI, so I can prevent myself from driving. That way I can't get my car stolen.
“Tonight, we got somethin for the thieves. Here is a new technique” 😂
If you can detect and disable airtags with any iPhone, then by the same token they are useless to prevent theft. Disappointing.
I think what they meant is if you can detect it nearby then you can find it on your car, and then get rid of it. I don't think you can do it remotely
@@carpo719 Yeah, the problem is that thieves can do the same when stealing your belongings. Nobody uses airtags to remember where they put their keys, they use them to protect their valuables from theft. If it's easy to detect and discard, it's useless.
@@Jun127 I literally use it for my keys
@@ShadowKiller71 Have you ever actually lost your keys where you needed Bluetooth to find them? Hard to imagine.
If you're the last one to leave San Fran, please make sure to turn the light off.
Thank you so much for explaining the scam to the general public. I’m sure everyone watching will do the right thing here.
I rather just take it to my friend who is a cop and let them use it as bait lol.
The tracker should be on all expensive products. Hopefully one day tracker gets to be smaller so it is not easy to see
Fuck being tracked by apple
What's from stopping someone from attaching this to a person, slipping it in a bag, etc? Nothing. 👎
Drive a Tesla. First is we have cameras alls around. So if I’m in the store and someone wants to put one of these on my car my car will record them. 2nd reason is Tesla have pin to drive. Which means unles you know my pin then you can drive away. If not then the car won’t start. 3rd Tesla app will show u were the car is at if stolen. 4th I can put my car in valet mode which means I can set the speed on the car and there’s no way for someone else to change it unless they know my pin. By a Tesla
The news is basically just advertisements for thieves to show other thieves how to do thieve things
I'm surprised this works very often, though I suppose people are often not very tech literate and don't pay attention or realize what the notification means that they're moving in tandem with an air tag. My friend and I tested it out, he has one on his electric scooter in case it gets stolen or he loses it.
I went driving away with it to see how long it would take to alert me I was driving in tandem with one. About 5 minutes. It's not a subtle notification, either. It pops up on the screen with a visual and explains the situation.
I know, sure, maybe the person doesn't have an iphone, but I find the cliche that more wealthy people own iphones is generally true (though I think androids are awesome in their own right and used to be a downright android super nerd when they could do a lot of every day things iphones couldn't - it's just now that I'm a little older and iphones don't lack a lot of the little things that made me love android, I prefer their stability and longevity.)
It is almost a novelty to see anyone wealthy with anything but an iphone. And, although android's come a LONG way in user experience and usability, iphones are still far easier to use and maintain for the average joe.
I have an iphone 7plus, not wealthy at all 😊. 🤷🏻♀️ never used anything other than an Apple dvice.
Thieves can also use a Galaxy Tag if the car owner uses iPhone
This comment & replies are the idiotic things. Private citizens shouldn’t have to become fucking private eyes. When a company makes a product, that you have to buy other of their products in order to protect yourself from- THIS IS A PROBLEM. And this tech is far more dangerous than stealing a damn car. Any stalker or predator fancies a girl at a coffee shop just has to drop one in her bag, or a kid’s backpack, or on the parent’s car..
iCrap isn't a bad product. In many ways it's superior.
It's the snobbish, sycophantic worship of the devices that's turned me away from the product for the last decade and a half. Users are like rabid dogs and it's best to avoid getting iRabies.
@@lolawants2008 That was also a wonder of mine, I guess like anything it can be used for good or bad, but it definitely seems concerning to offer cheap disposable tracking devices to the general public
Apple: "Never lose anything ever again!"
Apple product aficionado: "Where is my car?"
The tags only notify you if they have been tracking you for days… criminals only use them for a few hours.
Wrong..only takes a few minutes if you have an iphone
it only takes about 10 minutes, actually
My my how the turns have tabled
Apple needs to provide the ability to scan a car or an area for air tags, beeping louder or softer as you get close to the tag.
Sounds like a good idea that would get ruined almost immediately as kids would just make airtags go off randomly in populated areas as a “prank”
But what if you put a airtag in your car.. and someone stole it , would you want it to beep so the thieve can remove it?
Tips to disable airtag: crush it