AirTags have become one more apple product that is being seen more and more on the streets. It is an accessory that allows its location through the Find My network that generates the interconnection of all the products of the Big Apple with each other. Thanks to this network, the AirTag can send notifications to nearby people and facilitate the recovery of the accessory by the owner. However, AirTags can also be used maliciously and that is what Apple wants to avoid after the addition of anti-tracking features in iOS 4 beta 15.4.
iOS 15.4 includes anti-tracking changes for AirTags
Apple has found one of the AirTag problems: can be used maliciously for tracking people and/or objects without permission. This has made Cupertino get down to work to design tools, changes and new options to avoid this problem. For it, in beta 4 of iOS 15.4 it is notified about the illegality of tracking without consent through an initial notification:
You can locate this element using find my.
Using this element to track people without their consent is a crime in many regions of the world.
This item is designed to be detected by victims and allow law enforcement to request identifying information about the owner.
That is, Apple already warns that use the AirTag for malicious tracking may break laws in many countries around the world. In fact, if a person thinks that he may be a victim of one of these surveillances, he could contact the security forces and they will request information about the owner of the accessory, as mentioned in the previous message.
Also included two new options: Customize Find My notifications y Customize follow-up notifications. However, both options, when pressed, send to the Find My notification section. It is likely that in the fifth beta of iOS 15.4, Apple will include the options to customize follow-up notifications that will be in full development.
Apple's goal is none other than introduce more anti-tracking measures by the end of the year with the aim of making the AirTag a safer accessory than it already is. Some of these options are the precise search for unknown accessories, notification alerts in the form of simultaneous sound and louder AirTag sounds.
