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lantech t1_ja8mr33 wrote

Reply to comment by Adventurous_Gap_2092 in Missing Mainers found safe! by grc207

Airtags work via bluetooth. When other iphones see an airtag they log and report it. That's how airtags get tracked, they don't talk to cell towers. If you're in the woods with an airtag, and your phone is dead, there's no other phones around to track your airtag.

They were tracking them via cell tower pings but springfield was the last ping then it stopped.

A full-blown GPS tracking device could have reported exact locations and direction of travel before losing connectivity.

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Adventurous_Gap_2092 t1_ja8nu7t wrote

Cool. Thank you. I did not know. What about the other tracking devices. The knock off air tags on Amazon. Do they connect to androids or ??

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MisterMan-Maine t1_ja8q8g3 wrote

Those just work off Bluetooth and don't connect to any infrastructure. They pair to a single device and then that's it.

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lantech t1_ja8ry2a wrote

I gave some to my mom so she could find her ferrets when they fall asleep in a random place in the house.

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lantech t1_ja8sbef wrote

They do, but only the phone they pair with. So you can find your keys in your house.

Apple takes advantage of their "ecosystem" and uses all the iphones in the world to create a network of sorts.

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MisterMan-Maine t1_ja8qejo wrote

That is what I was saying in my reply to them originally. But I don't think they understood it.

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