Apple is taking the first serious steps toward improving AirTag's security features by releasing new software update to prevent unwanted tracking.
with the help of an AirTag, but we’re pretty sure that many more victims don’t get to subjects of daily news.
Although it’s been designed with this sole purpose in mind, not to track people or another person’s propriety, unwanted tracking is happening more often than Apple would like to admit, at least until now. Although Apple has done its part helping law enforcement where it could, these actions don’t actually prevent unwanted tracking. The good news is Apple has come up with a plan that might make the misuse of the AirTag completely extinct, or at least that’s what we hope.The first step towards preventing unwanted tracking is the addition of new privacy warnings during AirTag setup, which will be introduced in an upcoming software update.
In the same software update, Apple will update the alert users receive to indicate that AirPods have been traveling with them instead of an “” alerts when near AirTags, so that’s to be fixed in a future update. For the time being, the only affected are AirPods , AirPods Pro, AirPods Max, and a third-pary Find My network accessory.unwanted tracking support article
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