• katmio1@alien.topBEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    If it’s not your own car, call the owner & ask about it. People put AirTags on their own property & even their kids for safety reasons.

    If it is, deff drive directly to the nearest police station & have someone inspect the entire vehicle inside & out.

  • itshukokay@alien.topBEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • sjs48@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      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.

      • tuc-eert@alien.topBEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        It does happen sometimes though. I’ve had AirTag alerts randomly during trips where it belonged to someone else on the trip.

    • Sylvurphlame@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      And occasionally AirPods with Find My integration will still occasionally false positive the owner or a travel companion

    • ThMashedPotatoMan@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      I have one in my wallet but my family has never been notified. Is it because they’re in my contacts or something?

    • xBaShBrOsx@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      This! We have one in our stroller for Disney and my friend got the notification while driving to Disney with us and was confused.

      • joseph4th@alien.topBEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        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.

      • Chet-Harper@alien.topBEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        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

      • triplec787@alien.topBEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        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…

      • Intrepid00@alien.topBEnglish
        0·
        10 months ago

        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.

    • GarikLoranFace@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Or were you driving a U-Haul? Mine didn’t have one but did have a warning and a disclaimer I had to sign

    • Since1831@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      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.

    • thebornotaku@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      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.

      I got one such notification driving my mom’s dogs to the vet.

      Then I remembered they both wear AirTags around their collars.

    • zSprawl@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      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.

    • Thecardinal74@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      on the other side of that argument, please have someone check on your house, as there’s a possibility someone put it by you to know how much time they have in your home before you get back

    • Crocubots@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      OP, listen to this guy.

      Don’t go home until you find it. And if you’re staying somewhere overnight, park your car a decent walking distance away from where you’re staying.

      Also, as others have said - contact the police.

    • missyou247@alien.topBEnglish
      0·
      10 months ago

      Wouldn’t it be the opposite? Go home as fast as possible? Cause a burglar knows you’re 200 miles from home right now.

      • Burnerplumes@alien.topBEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        I’d say it depends on whether you’re armed or not. I wouldn’t want to go home and run into a potentially armed burglar if I didn’t have the means to defend myself.

  • chadder_b@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Safety aside (and OP I hope whoever you borrowed the car from owns the AirTag) I’m curious how you drove across Lake Michigan

  • RepMajor@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    That means one might be on your car and someone is tracking you - if it’s tracking you for 200 miles constantly that means it’s with you or on your car / person etc

    If it was tracking you for let’s say 1 mile and stopped , than it could of just been one In your vicinity and than you left the range of it

    Apple purposely alerts you when an air tag is tracking you (any air tag even if you don’t own one) because of the “dark side” of air tags (criminals use it to rape, stalk , set up , track etc) - so being it’s been tracking you for 200 miles , it’s deft on your car somewhere or in your personal belongings

  • xmodsguy2000-2@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Op don’t go home go to the police please someone is trying to follow you odds are they are malicious since they removed the speaker let police or someone look over your car don’t pullover and look alone you might be at risk of abduction rape your vehicle being stolen or way worse