Can You Track Your CAR with AirTag!?
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- čas přidán 27. 05. 2024
- One of the most common questions I've been asked regarding Apple AirTags is whether or not you can track your car or truck with them. While it is totally possible, there are a lot of caveats you should be aware of.
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2 things to note:
1) My understanding is in lost mode, airtags ping every 15 minutes to conserve battery. So there’s a limit to how quick it can be found, regardless of how populated the area is.
2) My understanding is that one common tactic when a car is stolen, is that the thief may park the stolen car somewhere for a day or two, to make sure the car isn’t “hot”. And in those cases, an airtag could possibly help.
Also, good video :)
My car is in for service. I put an airtag in the car. Can confirm that you can actually get an updated location (via other people’s iPhones) without it being in lost mode and it works great!
Can others find out ? There is one there that n car ping noise on there phones ?
I’ll put one in my catalytic converter
Lmfaoo
lmao damn
You really think a crack head will have the latest iPhone lol
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Those get stolen to
3:20 *You DO NOT have to enable Lost Mode to use the Find My network.* It works perfectly without that mode.
Good point, I feel like putting it in lost mode may help the thief as if they have an iPhone it should tell them there is a list airtag around (per my understanding)
@@coconutattackardvark carefully open it and remove the speaker on the AirTag so a thief won’t hear it when it ping’s
Yes u do
I got my car stolen and I had a air tag in it . Found it fast and my car was safe thanks to the air tag . Air tag works great for cars 👍
Can you please make a video on your experience?
Thank you for sharing. I bought three just now for my wife and I and I’m glad it works for the purpose I bought them.
Can it track it as it’s moving? Cuz it doesn’t seem to be able to do that it looks like it only updates every 10 mins maybe ?
For something as expensive as a car, you should probably hide an entire 3-or-4-pack of AirTags/SmartTags in various places.
My new car wont come with connected services so I am def. doing this with an airtag LOL.
I will be buying this for car tracking. it will be used as a theft recovery device. hopefully I will never need to test it. lol!
I live in a highly populated area and with plenty for iPhones, and it works great. I get updates on the location fed from other phones that pass it by all the time. It's awesome! highly recommend
@@armandogallardoj what lol
The downside of this is that your Air Tag will alert the Thiefs iPhone that there is an AirTag in the car with them. As its not the Thiefs AirTag his phone would get a ping saying something along the lines of "Non-user owned AirTag is in your close proximity" etc. It's a security feature to help people know if they are being stalked unsuspectingly.
@@alw1915 that’s not a downside. As long as you hide the air tag. They shouldn’t be in your car. Maybe that alert will make them ditch the car. That’s a plus.
You should at least test it every now & then to know if the battery is dead or not.
3:20 FALSE, airtag will always update its location on find my whenever someone with a iphonee walks by it does not need to be in lost mode
also the airtag updates its location about every 10 minutes
@@TVCHLORD It actually varies the update time.
Agreed, he doesn't understand them.
@@TVCHLORD Cool, also when in Find Mode, tap device name in the upper left 5X to access a secret menu.
How fast can i bypassing iphone send the airtag location?
If a jogger haves a iphone , and he runt rather to fast for the bleutooth to connect,,,
Is this an Apple event, 4 day premiere? Lol
Having 1 hidden in your car is an excellent idea! If some1 steals your car it will be driving past many cars on the road who have iPhones and can give an updated location
I would say that if someone stole your car and you hid your airtag well enough, they would have no idea where to look for it! Also as they are driving down the road, they will pass someone who had an iphone so depending on the range of other iphones connecting to it, just as long as you are in a populated area then it would work great as an anti theft device!
just happened to me last night. got my car back a couple hours ago. worked wonders. guy is free tho cuz police are bastards.
@@yeshuayeeyee7430 how’d you get your car back?
@@JoeyDNetsfan I tracked it the next day and used the police to help me go get it then claimed it with insurance. Police wont do shit tho...
@@yeshuayeeyee7430 Sorry this happened to you; are you in Portland, OR? That is the police M.O. here :(. Glad you got your car back, though!
@@kittychi999 YES
Hi,
I’m currently 85 miles away from my car and using the find my app it shows the exact location of my car. Obviously using my airtag which is in the car. So in my case the Apple eco system appears to be working and that’s without putting the airtag in lost mode.
Yes, I’m in the same boat, it’s not in loss mode and on a residential street I’m getting a location every 10 minutes
That’s is really helpful. Thank you for this insight.
why are you- actually nvm
@Ebenye Eunice got your car back in a few minutes, he must know some kind of hocus-pocus wizardry
@@Legacy9751 he’s probably on vacation 😂
$30 for a little extra insurance? Sure, why not.
Especially for me since I live in a city where 30 cars are stolen everyday. Thankfully mine hasn't been stolen. Had a cat converter stolen from my truck months ago. But oh well.
@@WAncouvOR must be houston lol
@@WAncouvOR didn’t work for me. They broke into my car and stole my airtag because it notified the person in my car where it was at…
@@Jjjjjjj750 Really? Didn't know this "feature" existed yet. That's good to know. I need to do more research. But I desperately need to install alarm, kill switch, and cat bars to protect my car. Where I live, it's not about a matter of if. But when. :(
@@Jjjjjjj750 I know AirTags notifie someone if they seem to be followed. Probably the system understood that the person in your car was being stalked. Did you activate the “lost mode” for the AirTag?
I have 9 airtags so far. I need more. lol.
Guys. I got a 4 pack of air tags for Christmas, had no idea what to do with them. I put one in my back pack, one in my wife’s purse , one in my truck hidden under the center console carpet (you know , just in case anyone ever stole my truck 😅) I figured why not? Fast fwd 2 months …. Woke up one morning my truck was gone. Tracked this guy who stole it!! Only down side was I was about 10 min behind him , hauling ass around town to all the “pings” where locations were last seen, finally…. After 4 hours he was not moving for about 10 min . Found him at his house!! My truck was parked behind his home in a dirt alley way ! had already filed a police report prior, called police and got my truck back! To me , it’s SO worth having in your vehicle. hide it good. It worked! I have had this truck for 11 years. 2004 LLY duramax. My baby, was home.
Damn bro glad u got it back that’s why I bought one today just in case this happens lol
Nice information, yes I am going to use in it my RV
4 days might be a little excessive, don’t you think?
Yes. It works very well. I’m completely amazed at such a practical device.
Pro-tip if you have CarPlay you can actually use Siri to find your car in a parking lot bc it remembers where you disconnected CarPlay. Just ask Siri “Where’s my car” and it’ll bring you to it. It’s not super accurate but its helped me a few times
Yup and also works when your phone disconnected from the cars Bluetooth
Yup works great for that! If your car happens to be towed or stolen, however then the AirTag comes into play.
You don't need car play for that. Google phones have been doing parking tracking for that last 5 years or so. Google phones use AI to detect when you're driving, and when you stop, they will pin your location on Google maps for when you stopped driving. That means you can drive a car 50 years old and still have park tracking.
I May be missing something, but it seems like if someone stole your car, you may not find it within minutes, but as they are driving away I’m sure they can bump into someone at the stoplight with an iPhone and it can give an idea of what direction the car is going. I just got my truck stolen last week, and I’m looking for options that could give me/police leads of where to go look. It sounds like a good option even if it is not 100% a GPS tracker
Or if you are a mechanic, you know how to get your airtag inside of the car where someone trying to take the battery out of it wouldn’t know how to get to it. I have mine all the way inside the electrical system. Even if you have the location of it, you wouldn’t find it LOL
For tracking stolen property other-than a car, an AirTag might help you find it or you could report it to police where there is almost no chance they will ever find it.
That’s police for you. Useless at recovering stolen stuff. You’re better off retrieving your stolen goods yourself, but if that’s something you really want to do, your best bet is to bring a gun.
Good video. Answered my what-if questions. Thanks.
I was thinking of putting one in my elderly parent’s car as a precaution should they get lost (my mom has an iPhone). Do you think this would be useful or is there a better product I can insert in their vehicle should they lose their way or are in trouble? Thanks.
Hello Andrew
I like your water bottle ! :)
what brand do you use ?
Thank you kindly great video.
Nice video Andrew. The AirTag is definitely a game changer for me as I always lose things lol. And I got the esr car charger a month ago because of your recommendation, I have to say it’s really great.
I don’t think an iPhone needs to be on 14.5 for a passerby to send the location of the airtag to the find my network. Yes 14.5 is required to use the airtag with the find my app and set it up. I have an airtag in my car and it’s also not necessary to put it in lost mode as it still will update the location when an iPhone comes in range and you can enable notifications when it’s not in lost mode but you have to enable notifications again after you get a notification.
I park my car on the street in my neighborhood and it’s nice to know where my car is if I forget which street I park it on. I do have a garage but the garage is closed for several months for repairs so I mainly will use it for remembering where I parked.
It updates really like every 5 to 10 min
After midnight not as much.
Not sure I agree with your position that 10 minutes is a long time to find your hard. I’ve had several experiences where I spent more than an hour looking for my car. If I could find it in 10 minutes, I’d be super happy.
I live in California (LA Country) I recently bought one just in case my car were to ever be stolen. Since I live in the city and I would say majority of people have iPhones ID say gives me a good chance of tracking down my car or even search in a general area. I sure wouldn’t 100% rely on it but I would say that if you live in a very populated area like Los Angeles your chances of locating your vehicle is increased greatly.
When you put it on lost mode, do people get a notification from your airtag or does the tracking happen in the background without them knowing?
My issue with these videos is the lack of real-world testing. Someone wondering if these things work wants to know if they actually work rather than just speculating based on what Apple says.
You buy one and test it out then
Right.. “ it doesn’t work out of Bluetooth range” BUT … “it might if “… i got lost in all the other stuff he was saying .
Great video!
I thought that these apple tags were a gimmick, my wife a set of 4 as a gift. She put one in her purse one in our dog one in her office backpack and she uses another one in her luggage. We 'lost' our car once, tough we parked in a 3rd floor in the parking lot but it was in the 4th. We already toght that it was stolen it took us 20 minutes to think about using find my app and well we found our car.
Also our golden retriever decided to take an adventure and escaped from the back yard something she has done a few times in the past. Instead of driving for a couple hours looking for her we just used the app.
They are really good tbh i liked them even as a Keychain
I’ve got mixed feelings on using it for theft security if a thief gets notified they’re being tracked. They may choose to ditch the vehicle instead of risking looking for the AirTag and getting caught whilst they do. An MO of professional thieves is to scan the vehicle for GPS or Bluetooth signals first and then plan where they take the vehicle to to search it for ten mins. With traditional hardwired tracker units there’s a limited number of places to conceal them and can easily be found by the professional thief. But then again some vehicle fleets advertise that the vehicle is tracked with a sticker on the vehicle to deter the opportunist thief so alerting the thief of the AirTag may be no bad thing if it panics them into ditching it. And some thieves may decide not to carry iPhones so they don’t transmit the AirTags position, in which case they won’t get alerted of the AirTag unless there’s an app to detect AirTags that android users could use ? I’d rather have one (or two) strategically hidden than have none at all.
or, you could put several warning sticker on your car, saying "There are SEVERAL airtags in this car and they are all Well hidden, Good luck finding All of them in time."
Technology making it hard to be a car thief. Also, I love the term “professional thief.” If that’s not the most potent oxymoron, I don’t know what is. 🤣
Fundamentally incorrect - airtags don’t need to be in lost mode to benefit from location pings from other users.
Correct. No idea how he can be so wrong.
@@petermount4752 I was just going to comment about a new channel that tracks parcels 📦
Hi , Does it uses the Find my network only in lost mode ?
I got my car stolen a few weeks ago and I was able to recover it. Luckily in one piece. Just bought one of these for some piece of mind .
LoJack went out of business. This is exactly why I got air tags- to track my car Incase of theft. Watched a video where a guy was able to track his bike from Amsterdam to Germany, and also putting it in a package halfway around the world. He could find them no problem because so many people have iPhones . Watched another video comparing air tags- to Tile and the Samsung Android version ( forgot the name). Air tags- took 10 minutes to find his car, whereas the others took 40. I actually have an Android but am using the air tags-.
How accurate is tracking your car while it’s driving?
If your phone alerts you you're being tracked by an air tag how do you locate or disable the tag?
Yes will be using the lost mode for car, laptop in briefcase so limited but cheap way to locate when another Apple device is nearby
As long your in range of 30 m you find it 😌 it’s good in parking houses 🏠
Well, mine it works 10miles away from where I am, I see your points it’s like flippin a coin but is an accesible option, great vid and good points of view.
Thank you!
If you lose your car in car parks like me everyday it’s a life saver. It remembers where I left it from when I walked away. It says 15 minutes ago or whatever but assuming my car didn’t drive away on its own it’s full proof.
6:15 it’ll help either way, because some people around the car at certain times maybe at stop signs stop lights or even driving by, will help ping the location
Sounds like car chop shops are going to be forbidding employees from carrying iPhones.
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Doesn’t matter. All someone has to do is walk by the building and that’s enough to pick up a signal.
My guess is the thief will definitely have one, so he gets the alert he’s carrying an unpaired tag with him so he finds it and gets rid of it, or the car.
I moved to San Antonio, TX, and my vehicle was just in an accident and will be repaired at a repair place and I wanted to attach my AirTag in the consul by via 3M 2 sided tape while it was away from me. I don't trust anybody here yet with the repair of my vehicle so, I'm just iffy on leaving my vehicle without them taking it to place other than the repair place. Is that a good idea?
Absolutely need to have in every car, especially only cost 30 bucks and no subscription.
You dont need to put it into lost mode to track it,
Hey understand if you do this, make thing that sits on my youtube recommendations page for 4 days!!!!! im clicking not interested and thats probably going to ding you on the algorithm but honestly you deserve it, I dont need a 4 day recommendation for a 10 minute video that contains about 10 seconds of maybe useful content
is there way to record the movement of the airtag?
ie, when it make moves, then it keeps record.
rather than just show the current location, and doesn't show any history of previous locations.
Question or consideration: if you place your itag in lost mode your own phone pings and set its location when you get out of your car, not?
This might be the worst product review video I have ever seen. It contains outright wrong information and should be pulled or reshot. You DON'T have to put it into lost mode to track, that's just show a complete lack of understanding of how the product works. 5 minutes with one and I already knew more about it that this video says.
Yeah he’s a bit of a virgin
If that had been the case I wouldn't have said anything. But he's been posting product reviews for 7 years, and has over a half million followers - you expect more
Your a doush bag
Thanks, I’ll get one
This is smart
I didn’t realize we live within an hour of each other. I’m in Newark but I’m in Columbus and the surrounds areas each day for work.
As Andrew says near the end of this video, most of us can just use the Maps app on our iPhones to locate our parked car.
Not in a multi level parking structure.
Not in an old unique car
Buying one tomorrow, I recently saw a post on FB that someone stole my neighbors car (I live in an apartment complex). So I’m putting a tag on my car lol.
Only got one airtag for my keys. This morning I couldn't find my keys and used my find my app on my phone to find where they were with the sound feature. All i could hear was bleeping near by and followed it around the house, but without finding them and the bleeping staying with me . Only to realise my keys were in my pocket. D'oh!!! Lol.
wait so... it doesnt work like a phone would in find my? cause when I lost my phone i was able to sign into find my and saw that I let it at my friends house. Airtags wont show you where they are like that unless youre close?
I really don’t know what was going on in this video 99% of the time, I’ve had an airtag stashed away in my car for months now, I’ve never had to put it in lost mode to actively track it and it’s come in handy finding my car in parking lots (turns out we were two rows off from where I actually parked), also I’ve had slightly more frequent updating then the usual 10+ minutes, I’ve been getting updates within 6-8 minutes
I Think if you park your car in Place where the sun shines a lot it Could Get meld because of the heat
Airtags have a anti stalking feature by sending alert to anyone who’s phone pings to the airtag and has been constantly following them, your airtag will also make noise after 3 days of no Bluetooth contact with your phone.
This comment needs to go up top! I do appreciate that the anti-stalking feature exists. Without it, this widely accessible technology would've enabled a whole lot of privacy issues for millions of people around the globe.
However, I can imagine someone stealing my car actually dropping it after such alert, rather than taking the time to try finding it. So, I'd say that the anti-theft use case for the airtags still stands.
So does this mean that if my car is elsewhere for some weeks, that after three days the airtag constantly will make noise till the battery drains?
@@drinkin_park Agreed. Finally someone with some common sense. If you can’t outsmart/think a common criminal, you’ve got bigger problems IMO. A life of crime is WAY more work than an honest living. The only thing that makes them smarter is the fact that they generally don’t pay taxes nor vote in stupid politicians. 🤣 Smart criminals are not jacking cars to commit crimes. Smart criminals run large corporations or countries. And even they’re usually dumb enough to think they’ll never get caught/exposed.
@@iamColaboy Yeah, you might want to think about another anti-theft device or two if parking it for long periods. No different than if you park your car at the airport or at a friend’s place, alarm gets set off…it’ll keep going off until the battery dies or someone takes a bat to it. AirTags are meant for everyday use and to be “at hand.” As are car alarms. They can only do so much as the user is willing/able to do. Hence why the average person completely ignores a car alarm these days, unless it’s not stopping. Most of the time they are set off by the user or something environmental (loud car passing by). Criminals don’t tend to go around setting them off on purpose. That would make them a pretty bad criminal. The point of them has become moot, especially if the user is not around to be alerted by it. AirTags are actually great in that way. Many people have iPhones, making the network really large. But they are not a “set it and forget it” solution. Also have to forget about/be okay with the fact that we’re always being tracked. Everything has it’s pros/cons. 🤷🏻♀️
You can take the microphones out of them so the sound does not go off there is a CZcams vid on that 😉
How b say if how to keep someone to try to using airtag to track ur car ?
I guess if I'm 30 feet away (Bluetooth range) from my car and can't find my car, I probably have no business driving.
It doesn’t need to be in lost mode for other users to update the location
I wish it had the software of life 360 that it tell you every where the tag has been
I tried the link and when I apply code its not working.
I was actually going to use the air tag to track my truck when shipping my vehicle cross country. Now that I watched your video, it doesn't sound like air tag has the ability to do this kind of task. Most folks say the air tag is great, but only if it's near by and not somewhere far. If I'm wrong, can someone let me know.
This is still valuable because Tile requires the tile app. My husbands car was stolen and we had a tile in it. we had no luck because Tile is less popular than apple in general. So much of the population has apple.
I’ve got one hidden in my vehicles and without being in lost mode I get passive updates for location
Do the airtags make noise when Not in range For a Long Time?
easy just make it as secondary means for tracking, there are gps signal jammer out there in the market just in case your primary gps tracker got block.
My make and model has Uconnect but I don’t have the features to help you locate your Vehicle
4:52 what version of iOS do you need?
All iOS 14 iPhones send locations, but only 14.5 receive notifications saying you are being followed by a tag
"Find My" is a lot older than iOS 14 so the mesh network should work on even more devices.
My car is parked 1 mile away and I can see the AirTag in my car updating every 4-10minutes...and I live in a country where the iPhone market share is only 18.11%
You don’t need to put an AirTag in the lost mode for AirTag to connect to Find My Network. Which ever iOS devices are nearby AirTag will broadcast to those devices.
So it does work with cars to track it at all time?
Silly question but what kinda water bottle is that?
GPS also can fail with cloud cover
To be honest bro if your car is stock Your insurance will give you the money but for somebody like me who has highly modified their vehicle it’s a completely different situation
seems you can use this to locate a parked car as well, the air tag will show last known location which would be where you parked and walked off.
I was also told android phones etc with same u1 spec can relay the air tag location as well so not just apple devices...bonus
My Toyota van got stolen while keys were inside,
Now bought a new Toyota Hiace and looking for a tracker. Will give it a try
But if the thief also has an iPhone, won't their iPhone inform them that some unknown AirTag is following them? Even if the speakers are removed, the thief will still know that the car has an AirTag, and will try to find and remove it, no?
Can I track my airtag even though my phone is offline?
I was wondering about that concept. I was thinking about putting one of these in the car to help you find where you parked. Say you went to Walmart and forgot what parking aisle you parked in (but know the rough area where), if it'd help find where you parked.
@@mca2642 ut is even automatic if you have phone connected to the Bluetooth audio system in the car.
Andrew, if someone steals my car with AirTag, and they have an iPhone and drive home, won't they receive a message notifying them an AirTag is following them and they would then disable it?
If they can find it ?
I think you can disable it remotely. You dont have to perse find it and take the battery out.
Does air tag use other iPhones only when you mark it lost?
No it’s does it regardless if you mark it as lost or not.
Yep got one for each of my cars to track primarily if stolen. Fingers crossed I never need it. You raise some good points though. I still think as you mentioned that it’s not gonna hurt hey, and it may just help.
Best open them up and remove the speaker ( speaker magnet actually ) which takes a few minutes, otherwise the AirTag can start beeping after a few days, so could then be easily found and removed.
Imagine your car gets stolen with an airtag but the thief has an iPhone XD
Pretty sure its not necessary to put it in lost mode
U can actually track your where your car is without ur phone being close because the airtag will use other people iphones close by to communicate
Young or old I’ve lost my car in the parking lot cause I didn’t pay attention or came out a different door so helps me find my car. If your ADHD and miss place things often including your car this will help
Samsung smart tag is more accurate and it updates often where as air tag won't give you information after 30 minutes or more ..I've both
Yes. I have an Apple Air Tag in my car.
There is no real downside to it. I have one in our car and a few other things.
I guess double side tape to put the airbag behind the door for the obd2 port
Might want to put it where a thief is not going to be fiddling around
@@sunshinestate1306 true, I was thinking about that earlier today
Isn’t the airtag beeping after 3 days?
I have a 2019 Ford Edge and it has FordPass. I open the App and I can find my car right away, and unlike Jeep, Ford doesn't charge to use the App.
And for $29, I don’t need Fordpass or the need to ever buy a Ford.
May 10? This needs to be a mistake