How Apple AirTags are becoming Dangerous ⚠️
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@@Mrwhosetheboss yeah But seriously apple airtag video Spook me a bit
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While on vacation, I gave my 7 year old nephew an AirTag in case he got separated from us and lo and behold he definitely did get separated. His dad called me in a panic and I successfully used the AirTag to find him. They are dangerously useful.
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The ironic thing about Apple's attempts to make them less useful for criminals is that these "improvements" make them less useful for finding a stolen item. For example, last year I had a bicycle stolen that had an AirTag on it. It likely started beeping a few minutes after the thief started moving it, alerting the thief to the AirTag's presence on the bicycle, whereupon the thief could smash the AirTag with a rock.
thats because we are born spiritually death ,the first humans rebelled against GOD and got cursed with death their body would die their spirit died and their soul would go to hell forever, alot of people died trough adam!, but GOD so loved the world that HE sent HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON that trough HIM alot of people can be saved from hell and gain everlasting life, and get spiritually alive! JESUS said if youre not BORN AGAIN trough water and SPIRIT you cannot enter the kingdom of GOD......
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That’s why you need to remove the speaker!
A few minutes? Try 8 hours after they moved it. If your bike got stolen overnight and you didn't notice for over 8 hours then sure, maybe it started beeping and they smashed it with a rock then, but it certainly wasn't a few minutes after they stole it. If they found it in a few minutes, you didn't hide it well enough and they just happened to spot the tag and got rid of it.
AirTags in nutshell : Pros : Make it easier to find missing people Cons : Make it easier to make people go missing
You should switch those around
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A number of major cities and US states are seriously considering making the sale or use of these illegal. The wife of my sisters boss a long time family freind of ours was stalked and assaulted using these. He and a bunch of other business owners are thinking of actually banning the use of any Apple products on the company premises. This is not a small company either. He was told by the police that was estimated that over 80% of Air Tags were being used to commit crimes.
Thats awful!
There really are two types of people one that work hard like you and one that do anything they can stealing or doing something embarissing just to get some money or some engagement
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They should make a contract inorder to buy these things
The stalker in his room legit scared me.
I use one of these as a dog tag. I know they say not to do that, but the point I'm getting at is that those things make noise whenever the app is accessed. It would be incredibly difficult to hide one of them on someone's person without them knowing about it.
thats because we are born spiritually death ,the first humans rebelled against GOD and got cursed with death their body would die their spirit died and their soul would go to hell forever, alot of people died trough adam!, but GOD so loved the world that HE sent HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON that trough HIM alot of people can be saved from hell and gain everlasting life, and get spiritually alive! JESUS said if youre not BORN AGAIN trough water and SPIRIT you cannot enter the kingdom of GOD......
I did my own experiment to "stalk" some of my friends (with permission, of course). It's actually quite dangerous and can actually be used to stalk people, especially if the person doesn't have an iPhone. I even used it to "follow" my friend over 24 hours and it could still be used... but in the end airtags aren't the most dangerous "stalking device"... but it's the most available.
Yeah they are l I
Aren’t the most dangerous????? You just proved it
@@XVNRX Aren't the most dangerous in the sense that it's not wholly effective - I live in a densely populated city and the airtag has long periods without updates. What I mean is that there are actual dangerous stalking devices, more accurate than the airtag easily accessible.
I agree with the last sentence. There are thousands of other devices avaiable to track people. Tech like airtags has existed for years.
I worked at an organization that supports and provides shelter to survivors of domestic violence and we’ve had to increasingly become better trained to find or detect spyware and it’s some of the first things we do with people when they come in. We have auto shops we work with who will look look over cars and take apart the outer accessible parts. It’s a completely nightmare for a survivor to uproot their family to get safe, only to be undermined and devastated by an abuser who won’t let them be without them and of course it can be lethal. The moment someone leaves is the riskiest part. Violence tends to escalate when the abuse loses their control.
A really good video, didn't know much about the air tags anyway so was really useful and in one respect a really useful product to have why pay for a tracker on your car in case it gets stolen just get one of these.
@Joe they work great too, just depends on which device you use and the proportion is users in your area. For example in the US you would want an AirTag and in Korea you would want a Samsung tag. Pro’s and con’s of course exist for both but by the time you account for your phone and the phones around you, it’s not really as important.
@@kushalraj well correction and most of the world you Would want a Samsung tag but in America you’d want an apple tag
Airtag is kinda tech fail. It would have been a useful tracker for all my stuff. I can even hide it somewhere inside my car and it would be an easy tracker. But it won't work because if the thief uses an iPhone, they can easily locate the tracker, or they can just wait for it to beep and just throw it away. The recent updates by Apple kinda defeats the initial purpose of the product.
@@pauljnr2470 just hide it well in a car, somewhere you have to take appart to get to gives them more hassle.
@@mrjustcausegames5330 not really, I’ve spent a significant amount of time in singapore and Australia. In both there are many android users, however less than 70% used Samsung devices because affordable devices are used too. In these cases there are almost as many iPhones as Samsung phones. Many asian countries, Samsungs market share is not significant as their phones are often more expensive than better value android phones. I haven’t checked the exact numbers so I won’t assume I know. But my point being it’s too generalist and probably too assumptions that no where outside the US is Samsung not dominant
Let me start by saying I love using AirTags for their intended purpose. I was just on a flight, where my friend’s luggage was lost. Before flying, she had asked me if I could put one in, since I had put one in my own bag, and since I had an extra one I said sure, I would put one in her suitcase and remove it when all the bags got where we needed to go safely. Well wouldn’t you know, the bag got lost. I was able to track it, and figured out that it did get to the destinations airport, so we were able to find the bag within a few minutes, not wasting time searching the origin airport. So that’s a really good use of the technology in my opinion. But I can definitely see how it can be used for bad as well. I could imagine, if I was for example a female Uber driver, being scared that an AirTag could be placed on the car, and then I’d be found home. I can see the argument from both sides. I don’t really have an answer.
Well on one side you had have possible help once a year when you go for holidays. On the other hand if you're a woman any rapist can fellow you home or to the secluded park much much much easier then before..
I never seen a female Uber because they always crash in Egypt until Uber decided to make a background check of the amounts of crashs they had 20% of female are drivers in Egypt the surprise Is 70% of people crash are female in Egypt lol
Thieves are such a fkn disease. Everyone’s struggling, but they want to climb on others instead of working hard like the rest of us. It’s such a fkn burden that people like this exist. Plz excuse my frustration.
Its dumb asf. This is what happens when you put too much trust in technology. You get people using it for bad intentions. That's why Uncle Ben said "With great power, comes great responsibility". Unfortunately, we live in a world full of irresponsible morons and sociopaths
@@toothfairy5352 dw I get you… my dads I phone 12 got stolen once and it was such a pain…😢 People need to learn to work hard instead of stealing from other people because they know it’s wrong and there not gonna get anywhere in life if they keep doing this.
Whats really funny about this is that these videos are making this information more available to people who will use it this way, though I understand its so people can understand how it works, but it makes it more popular
In the same vein, you want to arm and equip everyday people with common sense knowledge around how to protect themselves in the case that something like this does occur. Evil will alaways find methods for their madness, but regular innocent folks need to know what they're up against and how to take the appropriate (proactive and reactive) measures to keep themselves safer.
Was just thinking this myself, I had no idea about till all these videos started talking about it, it’s like a marketing campaign
Apple could make it such that the airtags would not work if their speaker has been disabled or they've been tampered with in any other way. They've already done it with the iPhones, so this should not be a big deal. Also, instead of continually transmitting its location, the airtag's owner would have to request for it. the airtag would beep when it transmits it's location, alerting anyone in its vicinity who could be being stalked. This obviously is not perfect, since the beep may not always be audible or it may also alert a robber of its existence. That was the best solution i could think of though.
It's an excellent advice
Nearly any anti-tamper mechanism can be bypassed. And a speaker can be emulated.
I think they are gluing the speaker so it "triggers" but doesn't move so cant make a sound.
they cant, becuase it literally is so small that the tech is not present for it. they could with the Iphones as there was enough space to fit soemthing that checks for tampering. the airtag does not have that space. and how would requesting location transfer help, the stalkers could just request it. tho they could make it so that a abnormally high amount of requests would send red flags and beep and warn police
@@normalchannel2185 the iphone is a phone Very compact, not much space
I have a friend who I speak with online these days and he had this story for me: His mom saw him packing snacks and stuff into a bag and guessed he was planning to sneak out, she hid an apple airtag in it and when he was there, called him to let him know that she knew exactly where he was. Fortunately, she was ok with and they had a good laugh
@Communist Antarctica Or an abusive partner.
Ik it sucks seeing one's own kids be dishonest, but violating their privacy aint it chief.
Sticking a tracking device into the bag of someone else's minor child without explicit permission is not illegal, LMAO?
@@wesgregg6451 its their mum
@@wesgregg6451 But it's his own mom who puts the tracking device on him You surely misunderstood
7:01 the music scared the living hell out of me 😂 i thought it was coming from my echo dot because it sounds like one of the alarms i have to wake me up...at noon... for work lol
What a great video. I have just bought these for my dad and was interested to see how well they work. I myself am a Samsung fan and would love to see a video on the galaxy smart tags.
I remember reading a saying from a guy in the 60s, he said that in a few years, we would have no privacy, and we will be watched 24/7. He was referring to the security cameras, but now his words are even more accurate, now we have trackers like AirTags. Technology is scary stuff when misused
Do you think the government cares enough about you to watch you?
@@changedpace9169 eventually, yes. Depends on how much computing power they got, and though they'd just archive your data away, they can choose to examine it whenever they want, if they ever deem you a threat to their power.
@@changedpace9169 Very much so, ever heard of the term "five eyes"? It's illegal in most countries for your own government to monitor their citizens, it should go without saying that such a thing shouldn't even need any explicit law to already be off the table, yet here we are, however, what isn't illegal is for other countries to monitor you and thus anyone who participates in spying on of their neighbors can freely trade data on each other's citizens as a way around that.
@@vgamesx1 my point is that the government doesn’t give a shit about you, they aren’t going to waste resources to monitor 300 million plus people. They only monitor those who are considered threats to the government or criminals. If you don’t fill your house with cameras and microphone enabled devices you will be completely fine
@@vgamesx1 It's a waste of resources to track every citizen. Unless they have a targeted reason to track you, you are but a record in the government database. The real danger there is that such database is compromised by external forces. External forces that will eventually do their deed if not timely monitored/tracked.
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All the videos he makes is for the channel, not charity.
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Lmao dude he does it for views , subscribers , and his channel not for some Free Social help. Gen Z i tell you 🤣
Yes. I'm glad he made this video or else more people would be endangered by child predators, thieves, or people that like to dox people could have gotten to their homes and possibly dox them.
@@itsgonnabeanaurfrommeI haven't watched the video but what does charity have to do with this video?
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It seems like the air tag also defeats the purpose of tracking your lost item when it’s stolen. So if the robber or thief steals your bags, they might hear the beeping or get notifications if they’re using iPhone. That’s if you or the police finds your bag before 12 hours is up.
Possible solutions : 1. Only police be allowed to silently track stuff. 2. You can silently track your airtag with only your iphone, in a range of 30-50 m from your phone. 3. Once you reach within 5 m of the airtag you're tracking, it'll make noise automatically. Maybe these can help. And as for tracking thieves silently, there's no point of confronting a professional thief, only the police are equipped to do so. If the thief is a coworker, then the 5 m alarm shouldn't be a problem.
I think it will contradict with the policy that AirTag is used to track "Lost" items and not "Stolen" items.
If your item is stolen call the police, AirTags won’t help you.
@@asuprem3307 police aren't always dependable. When my friend's STi was towed and stolen from a Casino parking lot. The cops were no help at all. The event was on camera and all. They only helped when they told him to collect his stripped frame 2 states over on the side of the highway. Which was also ticketed🤦🏾♂️
You have the option to let it beep if you want. Don’t make any sound with it when tracking your device, work smart
This was a concern when they first released it. The fact that it is cheap, is well hidden and lasts so long and is not easily traceable when away from the person/people who have registered it. I think the registration bit needs to be more seriously handled.
True but how do we do that in a private way for the owner because we don’t want to give any entity be it Apple or a government access to our identity and 24/7 location. While it’s a good point with a good sentiment, would you as a user want to tie your location to your identity?
No, none of that. Sometimes people use tools to do bad things. Does that mean we ban or restrict the tools? Hell no. Grow a pair, softie
@@AverageAlien I never said anything about banning or restricting them. Just tighter security checks. Guns can both protect and murder but they aren't available at your local convenience store now are they? The tags need to be registered with tighter security checks so the people who buy them are held accountable that is all. That would deter any malicious intent. For those who aren't trying to be criminals or murderers why would they have anything to be worried about?
I think the registration is fairly robust, or as much as it can be to protect the AirTag owner’s privacy as well. They can only be registered to a single Apple account and are non transferable. So even if you set up a dummy account to register the AirTag it you’d need other devices logged into that same dummy account that are going to share that location when the person is tracking the device. There are still going to be some ways around it and bad people are going to do bad things.
@@AverageAlien “the grow a pair, softie” is completely unnecessary. Especially when someone is regarding their safety. No one said anything about banning
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A woman just found one in her bag or coat pocket (idr which) after getting that notification after leaving a bar a few weeks ago. And she was lucky she got the notification which gave her the info that an apple device had been with her for an extended amount of time before reaching home. That could've been a really bad situation otherwise. We can't have nice things, which might help forgetful people like me, because nefarious assholes are just waiting to exploit everything they can. 🤦🏻♀️😕
thats because we are born spiritually death ,the first humans rebelled against GOD and got cursed with death their body would die their spirit died and their soul would go to hell forever, alot of people died trough adam!, but GOD so loved the world that HE sent HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON that trough HIM alot of people can be saved from hell and gain everlasting life, and get spiritually alive! JESUS said if youre not BORN AGAIN trough water and SPIRIT you cannot enter the kingdom of GOD...........
I had the idea to make trackers using old pager airwaves in 2003 - just a simple thing so you could page your keys or whatever it was attached to... I went to a business info access center in Devon UK and they gave me the name of the local patent lawyers - when I contacted them 2 days later they said someone had literally just come to them with the same idea the day before - I wonder who that could have been?
Sounds like you had an Elisa Grey moment! (Elisa Grey was the inventor of the first functional telephone, but Alexander Graham Bell beat him to the patent office by just a few days.)
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@@umamifan what the fuck are you even talking about
I had the same idea with STICKERS when I was in high school back in 2012 (10 years ago), and I even made a commercial video and presented it to my whole class, haha. I called it the ILT - Item Localizer Thingy, lmao.
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Airtags are actually seriously dangerous thanks for spreading awareness Arun!
How did you watch it so quickly?
@@kaizentruth8098 x2 speed is a life saver
Bro ik what happens with airtags and i was thanking Arun for making the video
@@kaizentruth8098 or he didn't
@@kinwahkan1773 🤔even at 2xs a 10 minute video would be 5 minutes but nonetheless, I’m happy he is spreading the word too
I remember that, a few months ago, I was at a school field trip when everyone on the bus received a notification that we were being tracked. Nothing (thankfully) has happened so far, but i remember being terrified
I work at a school where year 5 kids went on a residential nearly half the kids parents air tagged their children against the school rules of the school a few were tagged in two places. A whole new layer of safeguarding policy to rewrite.
Ultimate nightmare scenario: your bag with a tracker gets stolen, the thief finds and removes the tracker and places it in someone else's bag, the other person finds it and reports it to the police, who end up standing on your doorstep wanting an explanation.
When you bag gets stolen you go to AirTag Options and „tag“ it as stolen. so the next person „find“ the airtag he/she get anonymous data to call you. But yes I understand your Concern. There is no law for gadgets like this. C’est la vie
Why would a thief place a tracker they can't track without assigning it to their device, in someone else's bag?
@@paran0ia000 because it’s linked to the original AirTags owner… if a thief put it in another bag why would he want to track it?
@@bennn1346 he wouldnt the idea is to get the heat of himself and put it on you to stop any attempt to get back your shit
The real nightmare scenario is the thief killed someone and leave your Airtag on the corpse to plant "evidence" back on you
I've heard about this, glad you're addressing the issue, obviously they weren't meant to be used like this but its just concerning
Apple should've at least considered how people might use it for malicious purposes.
@@iloveplasticbottles They did. Hence all the security features.
@@moswanedev hence still ppl are being spied
could be solved easily if they do not allow other iphones lookup other's airtags but still able to use other's iphone network just not notifying them.
@@mosalahmosalahrunningdownt5579 dude , if an unknown airbag is in your car , you will get a notification on your iphone. So , calm down.
Good vid but I was laughing to much from " And then I'm going to stalk someone myself."
3:49 "TAG-tical"😂...TEST-tical... Great review.
What I find interesting is how the tech works by piggybacking off other people devices without their prior consent. This destroys much trust a person has in their devices when they are doing things outside of the persons personal use without being agreed to. For instance the Bluetooth functionality is accepted because it is user activated and one would assume their phone is not being accessed without permission unless they authorize the connection on their phone themselves. But what happens when someone finds a way to hack phones when using such trackers to establish a Bluetooth connecting with the device and bypass any security that would deny this. And there is of course people who would wish to opt out of being apart of the tracker program and they did not buy a phone to then have it used to support other products/services they were not interested it. I'm curious about how others find this choice of a company to access peoples devices for the purpose of selling others a new product.
that is the one aspect of this apple actually is guilty of. They retroactively opted you as a consumer into this. Now, I don't technically believe this classifies as illegal although it might under some obscure definition. (It would primarily depend AFAIK on whether or not you could choose to avoid updating the device whenever the airtag support was added) Nor do I necessarily believe Apple doesn't have the right to do this. Apple has ALWAYS sold a locked down operating system on devices they control, that's their MO, you knew thats what you were buying, so you could make a convincing case that this is just a step in that process. However, instead of questioning the legality or morality of this which is more or less irrelevant, (since as mentioned it is so complex) lets instead realize who gives a shit because Apple pulls crap on it's consumers constantly and anyone sitll buying Apple products knows damn well what they are getting themselves into. If they somehow don't, let this teach them. The law is fickle, politicians can be bribed, laws have loopholes, but if you just inform people and educate them on what it is they are buying, a company can't bribe more money into existance. If no-one buys their shit, doesn't matter. (and if they ever DID try to somehow bribe more money into existence, it would be a PR nuke) People continue to argue about WHAT Apple does, has done, will do, etc and 9/10 its bad, so why the hell do people keep buying their shit. You haven't just been fooled once, you haven't just been fooled twice, you are inventing new god damn numbers to try to have a hope of recording how many times you have been fooled.
And Apple does this while claiming they care about their users "privacy".
Pretty sure when you accept those software updates it’s in the fine print somewhere lol
@@00700556 No one reads terms and conditions, and why should we expect them to? You expect consumers to read several pages of text to use a product and understand everything written in the text? Terms and conditions are essentially a legal formality; they don't have any practical usage.
Theres obvious concerns imo about apple in the latest years for me for just this weird behaviour, where they try to seclude themselves as the good guys, but then make bonkers decisions that break their own rules about established security and privacy things. Honestly, privacy is a product but it shouldnt be, apple sells themselves as like the only company you should trust, but they are all out on making big bucks from all the people that go with their flow and throw all kinds of money in for products they dont really need or even should buy. Most apple products offer less for more money and dont make sense at all from the big picture. It also shows very well how all this dumbening of the smart products hasnt really made lives easier but people dumber. I honestly dont even trust their secrecy on most things they do cause it sure does seem sometimes that they either are brainwashing people with false claims or just reversed advertising or just are more deeply in the US gvn than people think. Steve Jobs, altough he was an uptight asshole of hippy, wouldnt certainly be happy about apple in this day and age. It shows well in reviews also that people are so biased towards calling everything apple makes so wonderful and perfect, while i have many times more issues since i bought my 12 pro max and updates from my 300 euro honor 10. It doesnt feel like a complete product with all those downfalls of bugs, lags and just stuff not working how it should in logical sense. All worked perfectly on android and even when it got slow i knew i could count on it handling everything i wanted. Basically, i work at an apple store, but i dont recomment apple anymore. I dont care how great their chips are or how the ecosystem works together, if it means youre pretty much joining a jail with no way out.
Wasn't expecting a video today but you always manager to brighten up my day. Thanks Arun!
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They should make it so you have to type the purpose of the thing you want to use the airtag for. Like example, wallets, phones, etc.
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It’s amazing how good your videos are this year! Keep it up 👍🏼
I'd say the one big thing Apple needs to do to make sure AirTags and other Find My network connected gadgets to stay in non-malicious hands is to just work with Google or even build a fork of AOSP and pull in an ambient BLE module with alerts and passive monitoring, this could also help them open up and widen the Find My network to the billions of Android devices worldwide.
Exactly! They should work with Google to come up with something as this is actually a serious safety concern.
Apple refuses to work with Google for RCS, let alone to add some universal protocol for AirTags.
Apple couldn’t care any less about android users, and they hate Microsoft 😂😂
@@LouisSubearth Nope, they’re likely to work with Google to in that matter. Because they already allow AirTags on android.
@@Racko. AirTags have an NFC chip in them, but that's about it for Android interfacing.
8:18 look on the phone, it says…
He can’t help himself lol
how do u know if it's still checking your location if you dismiss it the first time?
His videos are so well explained that I am in a kind of trance while watching his videos. Usually I get sick of a video in 10min but his videos are so engaging plus they are so awareness spreading which at times can save your life. Who agrees? Tysm for the likes ;))
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I do. He has seamless and unpredicted transitions, text randomly appearing on screen, background lights to stimulate the eye, a quick and fast speech to keep our attention. It's like he took everything attention-grabbing, compelling, and interesting then threw them into one pot and stirred.
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thats because we are born spiritually death ,the first humans rebelled against GOD and got cursed with death their body would die their spirit died and their soul would go to hell forever, alot of people died trough adam!, but GOD so loved the world that HE sent HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON that trough HIM alot of people can be saved from hell and gain everlasting life, and get spiritually alive! JESUS said if youre not BORN AGAIN trough water and SPIRIT you cannot enter the kingdom of GOD......
How creative mr who's the boss rickrolls are getting is dangerous
Has anyone noticed that just recently Apple seems to have reduced the amount of times the AirTag 'pings' when around other Apple ID devices? AKA on a keyring your spouse is carrying around. I think this is recent. Apple denied it on chat, but I think they're trying to reduce liability.
How do you learn to turn off the notification so the car thief doesn’t know an AirTag is following them??? Doesn’t that defeat the whole purpose?? You don’t WANT the thief to know they’re being followed!
thats because we are born spiritually death ,the first humans rebelled against GOD and got cursed with death their body would die their spirit died and their soul would go to hell forever, alot of people died trough adam!, but GOD so loved the world that HE sent HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON that trough HIM alot of people can be saved from hell and gain everlasting life, and get spiritually alive! JESUS said if youre not BORN AGAIN trough water and SPIRIT you cannot enter the kingdom of GOD......
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I know right? Which is amazing
You haven't even watched the video yet.
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@@SalveASMR but you know every video he uploads are bangers
@@SalveASMR we already know it's a banger
I can only imagine my fear if I was told there was an AirTag on me. I would be terrified and check all of my pockets. Stalkers have always freaked me out.
I think the reason they scare me so much is just the idea of a random person watching someone else. *shivers*
@@ellecharlie6822 theres no need for you to be scared of stalkers, nobody cares about you enough to stalk you.
@@li6htw4y46 but no one cares to him but to your's is no one loves u
@@GogoGaga7352 did you have a stroke typing that?
@@xrainbowdash4963 It's honestly mind blowing that i can still understand what he tried to say.
I use air tags to track my property. The first thing I do is disassemble the airtag and disable the speaker so if it notifies the theif they are being tracked they wont be able to find the tag by playing a sound; they will have to abandon my property to end the tracking because in some cases they will never be able to find it because it is so well concealed.
omfg....
It does kindoff defeat the purpose to notify the theif right?
I totally see the major issue these products are causing and I find it very scary. Although I do also see a flip side. The issue I see here, is that I guess from apples point of view and the point of view of people who want to use the product to genuinely protect their own stuff which is what it is designed for is, say someone steals my car / bag / wallet whatever, and I’m trying to get it back. The thief could be alerted to the AirTag and disable it, therefore rendering the air tag useless for the reason it was designed.
They don't even have to disable the air tag, they just need to throw it away.
It was designed for this purpose. Apple has always lied. It's almost 2023 and you're still giving Apple excuses...
it wa made for lost, not stolen possessions
thats because we are born spiritually death ,the first humans rebelled against GOD and got cursed with death their body would die their spirit died and their soul would go to hell forever, alot of people died trough adam!, but GOD so loved the world that HE sent HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON that trough HIM alot of people can be saved from hell and gain everlasting life, and get spiritually alive! JESUS said if youre not BORN AGAIN trough water and SPIRIT you cannot enter the kingdom of GOD......
i've thought about removing the speakers on 5 of my airtags due to them being hidden in my own vehicles incase someone steals my vehicles, the fact that speakerless versions are for sale on ebay from being modified will lead me to research on how to do it myself so the robber doesn't find them when he's in the middle of trying to hide my vehicle from public view and happens to own an iphone.
Counter Airtag tactic.
Just open the airtag and cut speaker wire, done.
Your vehicle will most likely be chopped up or shipped overseas, meaning your airtag won't do much to get your vehicle back. Reselling a vehicle as is is the dumbest thing a criminal can do since every vehicle had a Vin which makes it extremely easy to prove who really owns it as well as it can never get registered in the United states
Don't vehicles have better and more complex tracking technology including kill switch? Newer trend is just stealing parts from vehicle because of this
Honestly its kinda scary that air tags work by communicating location information to random apple devices. This is straight out of my nightmares of if apple had complete control of the markets. I actually recently got a notification on my iPhone myself about an unknown AirTag having been following for a while. This was after a international flight and I had gotten to my room, and for a moment I was terrified. I was already in another country alone for the first time and then I was told someone was using an apple product to track me. It didn’t help I knew hardly anything about air tags (apple isn’t doing a great job advertising the danger for apple users either). When it said to find the tag and contact the police, I did everything to try and find the tag slipped into my luggage or somewhere and couldn’t. Eventually I just thought I had to ignore it and it went away. Weeks later and I still don’t know what spurred it or what happened to it or if I’m still being tracked.
After watching MKBHD vid on the blue vs green checkmark debacle in regards to SMS and why people are social status on it in america, it really does rain in quite hard. They say around 70% of people between 18-24 have an iphone. Apple's grip on the phone market stateside is pretty tight here so yeah it is pretty insane
""Quality"" Apple products right there, try Samsung instead!
How did the airtag send you a notification about an unknown one? I had accidentally taken a friend's airtag instead of mine and nothing happened.
Same happened here when I got of the NYC subway. Got home and received a notification that I was being followed by an unknown device. I dumped everything I had on the bed looking for it, and later found that it was someone’s else AirTag that was on them going in a similar direction.
@@Defensive_Wounds Samsung smart tag is the same to air tags. The only difference is that airtag has larger network than samsung making it more accurate.
lmao the ending "what daa"😂😂😂
I hate that they start beeping when I work late. I have AirTags on my pets. Since my cats are indoor and will escape occasional when I have visitors not paying any attention. I use the AirTag to locate my cat hiding somewhere outside a ways from the house
On the serious note, you are absolutely right about people putting tags in nice cars. The Hellcats and Scat Packs of the Mopar community are getting tracked a lot.
Man I love the content you put out.. it's so informative being straight to point and explains almost all aspects of the subject.. It's amazing the effort that goes behind producing these videos keep it up Arun.. we absolutely love and enjoy it!
Apps can keep work in terminated states, you need to use native language of the system. It's a huge security concern, and providers only support with their system. So you have to use firebase for ios to keep getting data from the device when it's closed. Similar android
It’s useful for luggage as nowadays lots of luggage is being lost. My daughter had to catch three flights and the suitcase never made it to her destination, but as she had her tracker it was easier to claim for her suitcase as she knew where it was. After a week she git her suitcase.
thats because we are born spiritually death ,the first humans rebelled against GOD and got cursed with death their body would die their spirit died and their soul would go to hell forever, alot of people died trough adam!, but GOD so loved the world that HE sent HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON that trough HIM alot of people can be saved from hell and gain everlasting life, and get spiritually alive! JESUS said if youre not BORN AGAIN trough water and SPIRIT you cannot enter the kingdom of GOD...........
This is a brilliant way to make non apple users to buy apple products just to make them check for any airtags following you
Exactly what i think the reason apple made this
That’s creepy if it’s even remotely right
Creating a problem to sell solutions
Still not buying anything apple
That's kinda scary in a way, I own a android. But to actually realize I might be tracked and not know at all.
Now that is a true tech channel not just smartphones, you actually take the steps to tell people about tech it's advantages and shortcomings. 🔥🔥 Great Videos, Awesome Topics 🔥
Your transition, charisma just made me sub. Such a clean Chanell
I was on a sleepover trip with my summer camp a few weeks ago and me along with many others in the camp had the alert that they were being tracked by an airtag or an airpod.
Tbh Airtags in themselves aren't bad - I find it useful to track my car without worry for a year about the battery and by backpack in case it gets lost or stolen. But as always it's people's fault something possibly good is used for bad things...
Yeah I keep one on my keys so I can find it around the house before I leave. My backpack. Car. Its just like cars. Just because people are running over others doesn’t mean cars should be illegal
@@toptiertech7291 then they should be registered like cars are. I can easily get owners information using lisence plate. It should be same with air tags.
@Joe Not at all! It's a real threat that needs to be discussed and people need to be made aware. Also, Arun already asked the question in the video - Is it actually Apple's fault? And touched on Apple's security measures and their flaws, So he covered that, But then many people don't actually fully listen or watch a whole video before they comment. There's no need for Apple just to stop selling them, But it should be people's choice if they don't want to use them in certain situations, Or at all, AND to be aware of this stuff happening and take precautionary measures as Arun suggested - Which is helpful for many people.
@Joe apple shill detected 🤡🤡🤡
@Joe security measures my foot
Almost any technology can be misused but the reason AirTags are being misused so much is that they work pretty darn well for their price. I'm surprised Apple's own internal review and marketing teams never thought to raise this issue.
I am pretty sure they did and I would gladly believe that one asshole might have even said "Well they should buy an iPhone to know who is tracking them"
@Joe how exactly? You will never know if you have an AirTag on you if you don’t own an iPhone. On Android you have to manually initiate a scan to know if there is an AirTag near you. Devices that run anything older than iOS14.5 will not be able to detect the AirTag and there is no alternative for those devices.
@Joe Way to put the burden to ordinary citizens than to push Apple to find a solution. Seems like airtag is much more concerning than robberies itself.
@@berryx8192 "You can just download the app so you can track airtags that may or may not be an issue." "Nobody I trust has explicitly confirmed this niche issue, therefore it's not true." "Don't want to get the app? Get a new iPhone. Surely you aren't poor enough to buy a new iPhone?" "Not listening to your counterarguments, I muted you already lol. Like, what the heck is wrong with Joe? It's like they're just blocking their ears and refusing to listen to anything.
@Joe yes bro I will open the app everytime I go out to see who is trailing me. Nice solution.
I've had my AirTag stolen. The airtags are terrible if you want to track your devices because the batteries can be disconnected from the AirTag. So a thief can use to AirTag and track the person. If you do get an AirTag and use it as a key chain just make sure the apple AirTag cannot be opened.
"were you in the private shop" got me rolling.
I’m fairly security conscious. I also hardly ever use Bluetooth devices, so of course I always have my Bluetooth turned off to conserve battery. You just answered the question as to why every iOS update since around 14,2 has force-enabled Bluetooth even without the user’s awareness and consent… Not a good mark on Apple’s tab sheet, if you ask me!
AirTags don't use bluetooth
@@foamylemming3912 The video comes across to me as stating that AirTags use Bluetooth, and have an optional BT wideband mode that’s activated for precise location by a nearby device when required. If I understand the inner workings correctly, an AirTag will broadcast its ID on a constant basis (Using BTLE this is very light on the battery) and any nearby Apple device - If it has BT enabled - Will forward that AirTag ID along with that devices present location to Apple and Find My. @Mrwhosetheboss might be able to clarify if this is indeed correct. :-) If AirTags don’t employ Bluetooth, which radio communication standard *are* they employing? One thing I can say - Hand on heart - Is that AirTags *aren’t* communicating directly with mobile/4G/5G or WiFi networks. There is no way an AirTag could use those means of communication and still get a years operation out of a CR2032 button cell! :-)
Even if people could turn off their Bluetooth it would ping off other people's iphones
Having location services on gives them consent
Did they have many good marks on their tab sheet in the first place?
This can be REALLY dangerous if used incorrectly. Imagine being stalked by someone and they happen och be able to pop one of these in your bag. If you loose the stalker and preceed to walk home, he will know the exact location of your house and will from there basically do whatever he wants….
FYI ...when your phone and AirTags in same bag your phone registered in a sec that AirTag ... when you take your phone from your bag .....shows phone browser AirTag informations !
@@firstsoldier4257 That’s only for Apple though I think. Makes it extremely dangerous against anybody with an android.
@@PresidentShrubbery kk imma buy an iPhone real quick I'm shook
neat. get a gun. This has always been a threat, the only reason it's getting publicity now is because Apple is doing it and it's forcing people to realize how little agency they take in their own safety.
@@robonator2945 I think you’re forgetting that its hard to get a gun in many countries
Tysm for this video helped me so much since this is actually happening to someone I know
Great, so now I not only have to keep my bag close to me, I also have to make sure it doesn't have the open side pockets for creeps to drop things in it.
Love how your production quality has improved so much! Editing is top notch and the script is written with a high information:time ratio! One of my favorite tech channels :)
Man the effort put into those video. The editing. The plot. The execution. The jokes. All the stuff. Its a masterpiece. Its a dream
It's also been used to Skip School. I am a person at high school who sees this a lot, like People Lying and just getting out of class that easy.
This guy is so cool, how he talks, how he explains it, too cool. Earned a sub.
the scariest part is not the airtag itself, but the way is works. I can own an apple product and dont want/ dont have airtags, that doesnt matter, my device will be used to track them. That is the thing that really scares me the most.
Why? Why should you be scared? The information just gets passed on, and no one can intercept it or track the source. This guy is just fearbaiting y’all
@@alespic true. I can , from only hearing the video, understand why people gets scared over it tho.
@@vishnubharathit6192 it was almost definitely in the TOS, which he agreed to
You can optout by turning off findmy network in your phone settings
@@vishnubharathit6192 it is in the tos, and when an unfamiliar airtag is following you, your phone gets a notif
The escobar cash login got me dead XD at 4:48
the quality and editing was insane !!
Might be an idea to check if other tags are arround you - could sort part of the problem so you can be notified that someone’s tag is around you
I currently have 4 of them and when I was leaving my 2 Timelapse Rigs out on location for days at a time I felt good that I could see every once in a while that it was still on location without a monthly subscription but I can see how bad this could be
thats because we are born spiritually death ,the first humans rebelled against GOD and got cursed with death their body would die their spirit died and their soul would go to hell forever, alot of people died trough adam!, but GOD so loved the world that HE sent HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON that trough HIM alot of people can be saved from hell and gain everlasting life, and get spiritually alive! JESUS said if youre not BORN AGAIN trough water and SPIRIT you cannot enter the kingdom of GOD...........
Your videos are entertaining, informative. You and your crew must work very hard to produce them. I'm an oldie and not into games, or pretty things for a phone but I avidly follow your channel and admire your work. It does keep me up to date although I don't always fully understand it. Thank you.
9:08 Time Stamp says its Surfrock VPN 😂😂😂😂
0:05 Arun's scared voiced really made me laugh 😂😂😂😂
Only found this channel recently and it has quickly become one of my favorite! I like the evolution of your videos over time, although they have always been good!
I like the timed circles on the left side, keeps the video clear and organized! Kudos to you and the editor and I feel that more people should do this
on the flipside, an airtag should be able to go in reverse, showing you locations of apple devices in your area. that would be pretty useful but that could be sketchy and a nefarious use haha
Great video! Btw that you spelled surfshark vpn as "surfock" vpn!😇😜
While it's not Apple's fault their product is being used for unintended purposes, now that they know about the issue, it is their responsibility to do something. Just making the Android app better, and the notification process for Apple phones better, could go a long way to doing that.
They knew perfectly well this would happen but why should they care? Stalkers pay for their products like anyone else, and oh! Why not get a hidden tracker to put on your loved one so if they do get kidnapped by the Apple fueled Stalker, you can find their body later, now Apple have sold two trackers just like that. They don't care at all, and these half measures will only fool idiots.
Taking a more pessimistic view of things, you could argue the point that Apple intentionally endangering people is a huge boon for iPhones. "It's the only device that warns you of the problem we created". Obviously, Apple isn't out there twirling their moustache that they've put people in danger, but if it brings a few extra dollars to their pockets as a result, they won't be complaining.
That's like saying it's on a hammer company to "do something" about a murderer using their hammer to commit murder. It's no one's fault or responsibility besides the malicious user's.
It is their fault for assuming the average device owner agrees to their device being used like this without their consent. What's next using our device's to actively listen for criminal activity (I kept this to the broad term as induvial labels would likely sound like justifications for this invasion of privacy) When such a device was created the existing device users should of been given a choice (the best I can assume is a T@C buried deep into the pages of reading saying the device will be used for more then personal use without the need for active consent)
Yeah sure so now as an android user I'll have a nifty app reporting my location non-stop to Apple servers. What a leap forward. Anyway the hacking community is constantly breaking their Bluetooth protocols, it's coded like ass to the point it's even more detrimental to the honest user than anyone else.
I started watching recently but am super stoked that you present information in such an unbiased and informative manner
thats because we are born spiritually death ,the first humans rebelled against GOD and got cursed with death their body would die their spirit died and their soul would go to hell forever, alot of people died trough adam!, but GOD so loved the world that HE sent HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON that trough HIM alot of people can be saved from hell and gain everlasting life, and get spiritually alive! JESUS said if youre not BORN AGAIN trough water and SPIRIT you cannot enter the kingdom of GOD......
A couple of years ago I bought a key beeper set thing, Tonight when I went to use it the keys had died , but me bad, new battery, fine. I can understand at a push phone tracking but BEYOND that ... it's such a bad idea. BAD IDEA.
I don't know why I am addicted to this channel. :)
I just realized that I accidentally clicked this video from “Cats V.S invisible wall” and I was very confused because these thing have nothing to do with cats or invisible walls
It would be VERY simple to make the AirTag ping once each time the location is viewed (and/or add a vibration engine). This would help deter trackers tremendously. Also Apple is good at blocking third party repairs, seems to me they would be able to make it nearly impossible to unhook the speaker. If they wanted to live up to their privacy claims, they would offer free upgrades from original AirTags to AirTags 2, while removing all original AirTags from the system. The solutions are out there, if they would just do it.
The thing is that makes no sense, since your own AirTag isn't a threat to you there's no reason for them to put resources into it, and on the other hand also people who actually mean harm with this device are not interested at all in trading the security threat device they just bought for a device with more security features. The only real solution to this is fix as much threats as they and start selling only the updated version of this product
That second solution though would be HORRENDOUS for the environment though, for the average person would most likely just throw it away rather than recycle it properly (via a tech recycling center). Your first one though is also redundant, because like Arun said in the video, speaker-less AirTags are being sold, meaning that the feature would just be bypassed in the same way.
@@lucastillej0 Hence the need to block third party repairs. And to get a new AirTag, you would be required to return the old one. I just can’t stand to see the idea die, it is so handy, there are just a few bugs to be worked out.
This kind of ruins a significant use in the case of theft of a backpack or bag. I wouldn't upgrade, and thanks to the replaceable battery, I needn't to either.
@@Lauren_C You are correct there, hadn’t thought of that. My boss uses them to track his trucks, in the event one would be stolen, thing is, the AirTag may notify them if their using an iPhone after 8 hrs anyway. 😕
as a younger teenager, i went to my first weeklong sleep away camp a while ago. i was looking on my phone after getting off the bus and going to my campus' dorms. i got a notification that an airtag was tracking me. the only places someone could have snuck something like that on me was on the bus or at the place i ate lunch that day. i contacted my camp leader and she told me to just ignore it. never found the airtag or the person. it eventually stopped following me.
Could’ve been just someone who tracked their own bag and was just located near you. I have one on my keys so I don’t loose them and every once in a while one of my coworkers gets the tracking notification when their sitting at a desk near me.
I always get notifications about AirPods being with me when on a bus
thats because we are born spiritually death ,the first humans rebelled against GOD and got cursed with death their body would die their spirit died and their soul would go to hell forever, alot of people died trough adam!, but GOD so loved the world that HE sent HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON that trough HIM alot of people can be saved from hell and gain everlasting life, and get spiritually alive! JESUS said if youre not BORN AGAIN trough water and SPIRIT you cannot enter the kingdom of GOD...........
I just had this happen to me. I was on vacation and while we were walking around downtown someone slipped an AirTag in the hood of my coat. The thing is so light I didn’t even realize it. By the time I got the notification from my iPhone it had been hours and the AirTag had tracked me back to our rental, and even tracked the walk I went on with our dogs after I got back to our rental. I noticed it sent the notification in the middle of the night/early morning.. so I saw it when I woke up. Thank god I noticed it before we drove home because it was our last day there. But it’s scary how easy someone can be tracked with one of those. Like, I have no idea who slipped it into my jacket hood..all it took was probably passing the person on the street, or in a store.
and for the real reason i’m here… to hear what pun was used during the video 3:43 😭🤣
This is so scary I didn’t know these mini devices can track people like that
Even cheaper ones can
You'd be surprised. People are wild, literally one video I saw there was hidden Cams everywhere in a hotel room, like 50 of them in every nook and cranny including inside the shower head.
"I didn't even know mini devices can track people like that" bruh, this is just dumb. How can you not know any of this tracking stuff. Unless you are a kid or new to the internet.
Guess phones are scary now
Tbf everything can track you, it's just these apple airtag make it easier
A couple days ago I got off my school bus and started walking home. I was about halfway home when my phone vibrated. I got a notification saying an airtag had been following me. I ran home and immediately started going through my bag, my pockets everything. I couldn’t find the airtag. Either I have someone stalking me or there was a glitch.
did you find the airtag yet?
@@klarceta1744 nope. I’d say it was a glitch
@@MADRAMUZZLE ah okay
Today I received a notice from apple that I was beginning tracked by an air tag. Scary as I was not able to locate with the tracking. I had a police officer help to remove it. I had to turn off my locator and Bluetooth. Not sure if it was accidental or on purpose.
Was this video thought of before or after the collab with Tom Scott?
this is a really cool informative video of the safety aspect of these tags, the major thing that shocked me is that the tags are so cheap for being an apple product, i didn't realise how good they were but i am a sucker for losing stuff so i think it might be a worthwhile investment for me
thats because we are born spiritually death ,the first humans rebelled against GOD and got cursed with death their body would die their spirit died and their soul would go to hell forever, alot of people died trough adam!, but GOD so loved the world that HE sent HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON that trough HIM alot of people can be saved from hell and gain everlasting life, and get spiritually alive! JESUS said if youre not BORN AGAIN trough water and SPIRIT you cannot enter the kingdom of GOD......
I love how he says “instead try to go got to a PLAYSTATION”