Apple's latest iOS beta lets you manually scan for unwanted AirTags

Apple's latest iOS beta lets you lot manually scan for unwanted AirTags

Y'all can now check if you're beingness tracked

Apple AirTags

A new feature included in iOS fifteen.2'due south second beta adds the choice within the 'Detect My' app to manually scan the area effectually you for devices that are office of Apple tree'southward object locating platform that might be tracking you.

As start reported by MacRumors, the feature is bachelor through the 'Items That Can Track Me' option nether the Detect My detail menu.

In one case y'all tap the setting, Find My lists all of the devices nearby that you don't own, only that could potentially still be tracking you. Yous're then given the option to disable the device from tracking you. There'southward also a 'Assistance Return Lost Items' setting that replaces the 'Identify Found Item' message currently included in this carte.

While Apple's AirTags remain the most impressive Bluetooth tracking device out in that location, given the size of the company's Find My network, it tin can more easily exist used for nefarious purposes than competing crowd-sourced networks from Bluetooth tracker companies like Tile.

These new AirTags features, which are set up to make their way to the final version of iOS xv.ii, seem to be in response to criticism that the tackers can hands exist used to track people rather than objects.

Over the final few months, Apple has introduced other changes to its Bluetooth tracker to mitigate this result, including AirTags only being required to spend eight to 24 hours abroad from its possessor earlier emitting a warning racket, instead of three days. The visitor is also working on an Android app that notifies users of unwanted AirTags tracking them.

It'southward probable the public version of iOS xv.two will release in the coming weeks.

Update 11/10/2021 at 02:07pm ET:Corrected an error in the third paragraph.

Source: MacRumors