What to do if you lose an AirTag
If you have an Airtag surely you've wondered, at some point, what to do if you lose one of these little devices, right?
If you lose it, it is because you have also lost the object to which you have assigned it, be it keys, a wallet, a bag, a suitcase. Surely you will be breathless for a few seconds and not because of the Airtag, but because of the accessory or article that has it "embedded".
Well, calm down. You are in the right place to know what to do to find it as soon as possible. Let's get to it .
What to do if you lose an Airtag:
The first thing you should do, before panicking, is to enter the app Search of iOS, click on the menu "Objects", which appears at the bottom of the screen, and click on the object that your AirTag was assigned to. You have the same thing at home, in the car or at the house of a friend or family member.
If it's close, we can go look for it without problem. We can even find it at home in case it is in the Bluetooth range of iPhone In this case, if you have an iPhone 11 or higher, you can take advantage of the precise location. It is indicating the meters to which it is and directs us, by means of a kind of compass, to its exact location.
If we have not been able to locate it nearby or we see that it is located somewhere we do not have access to, it is best to do what we tell you below.
How to set Airtag lost mode:
In the following video, around minute 3:04, we talk about the mode you should activate if you've lost it:
Enter the app Search of iOS, click on the "Objects" menu that appears at the bottom of the screen and Click on the object that was assigned your AirTag .
The following menu will appear, from which we have to click on the "Activate" option of "Lost Mode" .
Airtag Menu
Now we will see a brief explanation of what that mode is and how it works. We click to continue after reading it and a screen will appear in which we must put our telephone number. This is very important because if someone finds it, they will know where to call to return it.
Next, the menu appears where we can configure the message that we want the person who finds it to read and, also, the possibility of activating the notice when found.This notice will send us a notification when someone scans the device.
Set up Lost Mode
Once we have it configured, click on "Activate" to leave the lost mode fully activated. Now we will see, next to the image of our Airtag, a padlock that reveals that we have the lost mode activated.
Red padlock next to the image of the Airtag
It's good to make it ring from time to time. It may be somewhere that no one knows and by ringing it they can find it and proceed with the return.
What to do if you find an Airtag that is not yours:
Now we are talking about the other extreme, about the person who finds an Airtag. If someone finds, for example, our lost Airtag and has an Android device, all they have to do is put it next to their phone and wait for the NFC chip to do its job.When detecting the device in "lost mode", a notification will appear in which, when pressed, it will give you the information that we have configured in lost mode, that is, the phone number and the message.
If the person who finds it has an iPhone, when it is placed next to the mobile, the notification that allows us to access the information of the Airtag owner should appear. If it does not appear, what you should do is access the Search iOS app and click on the “Objects” menu, an option called “Identify the found object” will appear. Clicking there we must follow the steps indicated by the app and, after a short while, the expected notification will appear.
Accessing lost Airtag information
Clicking on it will give you all the information that we have configured in the lost mode. The message and the phone number. It is now a matter of that person contacting the owner of the Airtag to return it.
Lost Airtag Owner Information
We advise that any Airtag that is linked to an owner cannot be restored or used, so it is foolish to keep it.
And without further ado and hoping that you found this tutorial interesting, see you soon with more apps, news, tricks, tutorials to get the most out of your Apple devices.
Greetings.
