Ring a nearby Apple Airtag with an Android phone?
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Linked with https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/257113/why-cant-my-android-phone-play-a-sound-on-a-nearby-apple-airtag but not a duplicate.
Can an Android phone:
1. show that an AirTag (that I own) is nearby?
2. make it ring?
This [article](https://www.mediamarkt.ch/fr/content/handy-navigation/smartphone/airtag-android#airtag-pour-android-grace-a-l-appli) seems to show that the answer is yes, but the limitations make it totally unusable!
* [Apple Tracker Detect](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.trackerdetect&hl=fr) : user review (translated):
> [...] it is indicated that it must **not** be near the owner's iPhone (via Bluetooth) and that the system can take up to 15 minutes to locate it. Finally, to make it ring, you have to wait 10 minutes while standing next to it, as it says!
* [AirGuard - AirTag protection](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.seemoo.at_tracking_detection.release&hl=fr&gl=fr) : user reviews indicate it's really not handy to use
TL;DR: **How to ring a nearby Apple Airtag (that I own) with an Android phone?**
Is there a solution an Android that dosent't require to wait 10/15 minutes to locate a tag **and doesn't require to be *outside* of a 15 meters range from the tag for it to work?** (in this case *another* nearby Apple device is probably necessary)
Asked by Basj
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Jul 12, 2024, 01:11 PM
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