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Or just buy them on eBay, pre-silenced.

I'm really not exactly sure what happened here in this "update", other than "FYI, we'll give out information after being subpoenad" and "we'll also include a dialog to say "don't track people with these"."

"So, basically nothing, then?"



It will alert people that they are being tracked even sooner than the threshold now, and it will now play an even louder alert tone.


The "alerting people that a tracking device may be moving with them" is a good thing, though they definitely buried the lede on that, I feel.

A louder tone? I thought a lot of the issue was that people using them nefariously were disabling the speaker entirely, or buying AirTags that others have helpfully pre-disabled for them.




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