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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.
Or were you driving a U-Haul? Mine didn’t have one but did have a warning and a disclaimer I had to sign
I got one such notification driving my mom's dogs to the vet.
Then I remembered they both wear AirTags around their collars.
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
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.
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...
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.
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.
Mine notifies everyone I’m with, both ppl in my contacts and ppl not in my contacts
It does happen sometimes though. I’ve had AirTag alerts randomly during trips where it belonged to someone else on the trip.
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.
Is it not supposed to notify others only if the owner of the AirTag isn't around ? I think so
it never detected near AirTag for my passengers.
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
And occasionally AirPods with Find My integration will still occasionally false positive the owner or a travel companion