With iOS 17.5, iPhones can now alert you when certain Bluetooth trackers are following you, show you who owns the tracker, and disable it.
A new industry specification devised by Apple and Google to address the safety risks of Bluetooth tracking devices is now live. Apple announced this week it has implemented alerts for unknown third-party Bluetooth trackers in iOS 17.5, following Google starting to roll it out across Android devices running 6.0 and higher last December.
” You’ll be able to view the tracker’s identifier, have the tracker play a sound so you can find it, and even find out how to disable it. While Apple launched AirTags without the ability to alert Android users if one was following them, it did fix that with an Android app a few months later. Since Google implemented DULT in December, the function is now baked into Android.
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