Since the official presentation of Apple's location beacons, AirTags, the company claims that they are not designed to track children as well as people or animals, although this be the use that many users have initially thought. Many users are wondering, to what extent is the tracking capacity of these small devices accurate?
One of the first users to receive the first AirTags, he wanted to clear up his doubts and an AirTag was sent by post. Using Automator, logged the location of Apple's locator beacon every two minutes Does the AirTag track location like Apple says it does? In the following video you can see the answer, but I will tell you that yes.
During the process, the beacon was not able to provide the location information on a couple of occasions, something that was probably due to some initial problem with the new Search function, which was not covered at the time ...
The guy from the Netherlands who created this video says that this is just the first test to check the AirTag operation. The next test will be send it to another country to track its location at all times.
How AirTags Work
Apple's location beacons use iPhones as a kind of mesh network, so in theory, are more accurate than the products of its maximum rival on the market,Tile.
The Samsung locator beacons that it presented in January, they work in the same way as Apple's, but using the Samsung mobile network.
The AirTags with which they cross, sending the location to the owner of the beacon without the owner of the iPhone used to send the information you know, an information that is encrypted from the beacon to Apple's servers that in turn return the location to the original owner.