Apple’s first major AirTag update addresses serious privacy concerns

Even the smallest product releases from Apple are going to make waves, but since its launch in April, the AirTag tracker hasn't been making headlines for reasons that Apple would prefer. If you haven't been keeping up with the response to the AirTag, there has been a great deal of concern over the lack of privacy features the Bluetooth tracker provides to users.

This concern culminated in a Washington Post story about all the ways that an AirTag could be used to stalk someone surreptitiously. One of the problems is an alarm that sounds when the AirTag has been separated from its owner for three days. As Geoffrey Fowler pointed out in his piece, this alarm resets every time the tracker is within range of the owner's phone, which means that anyone living with an abusive partner that is secretly tracking them might never hear the alarm.

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