Being a thief in 2025 is no longer as profitable. Imagine being, plan a mega flight in a mansion, sneak without being seen, looting all the jewelry without the alarms jumping, successfully fleeing the place of crime and in a few hours, without knowing very well how, you have a police patrol at the door. It can not only happen, but has already happened and He led to a defeat for thieves. The culprit? “Simple” aerotage.
Thieves see how Apple locator is frustrating more and more flights. So much so that there are already local governments and private companies that promote their use and even give them to users to avoid being stolen.
Airtag appears as a thieves' roof
The Airtag was born with the simple, but effective idea, to avoid fear when we lose the keys or other everyday objects. None of that was lost, but gradually the popularity of these locally allowed them to place themselves as A kind of anti-theft weapons. They may not avoid it as such, but they are the good necessary to locate where they have stopped what thieves take.
We have been witnessing the success of the Airtag for four years in the fight against crime. To know if they look at your car to fly it to the track necessary to continue it when they have already taken it, passing by all kinds of jewelry flights and other personal effects. There are thieves who have lost up to a million dollars due to an Airtag (fortunately for the victims).
All this led to los Governments take the pavilion very seriously To the point of giving them, as is the case of the Colorado police, which delivers them to avoid the massive flight of vehicles. Until private companies They are promoted, as is the case of airlines now, which are aware of the number of times an aerat has helped find stolen or lost luggage.
Currently, several airlines promote the use of Airtag which benefits from the fact that IOS 18.2 has introduced a functionality with which the user can easily share the location of the locator and that the airline can follow it at any time from the “ Search '' application, which is also accessible via the web.
According to the thief point, we can say that the evidence provided by the aircraft is of such magnitude that it serves as valid evidence in a jucicio. In fact, more than one convicted was guilty of reducing their grief, because proof pushes them to declare themselves guilty.
The weak point of aerotage
Airtag alerts even appear in Android Mobiles
The Airtag, which demonstrates its good job for good, also has its counterpart on the side of the criminals. And it is Malchechores also take advantage of AirTag technologyBecause it is thanks to these accessories that certain arms traffickers managed to bring about weapons to the destination successfully, having checked their position at any time.
Functionally, the Aétagre also has some faults. The main thing is that These are not a GPS And they must have another Apple Apple accessory – whether of the same owner or not – to function properly and send their position to Apple servers. This causes that, if the thief does not occur near the company's devices, the owner of Airtag cannot know his position.
In addition, advantages, there are disadvantages, such as Anti-reference alerts which even have Android mobiles. These are opinions that have been launched to prevent the air pavilion from being used to illegally follow a person and that as a counterpart, a thief receives the warning that he carries a pavilion on top, check between stolen equipment to find it and get rid of it.
Apple, the agent against theft
Directly and indirectly, Apple tries to make the “work” of thieves useless. A test is the way they protect their own devices, such as the iPhone, not focusing on the prevention of theft as such, but to remove the reasons of the thief. And for the sample, two examples.
A year ago, Apple presented a blocking of iPhone parts which prevented key parts such as the battery or the screen without express authorization for this task. Thus, all these organized groups dedicated to mobile phones are directly attacked and that, aware that they will be blocked by the user, they decide to sell them by parts on the black market.
To this are added Other protection options Available as stolen iPhone blocks to prevent it from being restored, as well as the impossibility of modifying the Apple account with that called anti-theft mode.
In Applesfera | Apple Airtag 2: Everything we think to know the new generation of the most popular locator
In Applesfera | What if your iPhone is stolen: step by step to recover, block it or erase remotely
