Why Everyone is BREAKING OPEN APPLE AIRTAGS

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
00:24 - THE PROBLEM With Apple AirTags
01:48 - Why Apple AirTags Chime
04:02 - Prepping AirTag
04:54 - How To Open Apple AirTag
06:16 - How to Remove Apple AirTag Speaker
07:42 - How This AirTag Now Works
08:15 - How To Hide Your AirTag
09:13 - Still Anti-Stalking
10:06 - Follow the Black Dots

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[benvasilinda]

Ok as a combat vet and experience with tracking down enemies over in foreign countries, always having a back up way to track ur item. Putting two devices in ur sensitive item would be ideal. Have one with the speaker attached so they could find that one and have the other with the speaker removed. Leave the one with the speaker, easy to be located so they don’t easily find the quite one by mistake and they will dispose of the easy one and carry on about their business. Most criminals won’t look or check for a second one.

[EdCardinal-MindThump]

On a trip a few months ago my Airtag told me my bag had been left behind the flight after the airline personnel had messed up my reservation. I showed my phone's "find my..." app to the airline baggage agent; they did a deeper search on their computer and found it was on a later flight. I picked up the bag the next day and the airline gave me a flight voucher for my trouble. The tags paid for themselves.

[stefanlewis]

For the Airtag Vault, and anything that uses adhesive make sure to clear the area well with rubbing alcohol to ensure a clean area that will get the best adhesion, also pressure and friction. Sometimes i might heat up the adhesive area with a hairdryer before hand to get a more permanent stick. Some helpful tips.

[nothinglasts]

Just did this after picking up a 4 pack. Apple has changed the internal design and glued the device shut, there isn't a way to open the AirTag without breaking the tabs. Also, the speaker isn't adhered to the plastic part that comes out, it is glued into the center of the other smarts of the device. The speaker is still disabled but the tag no longer holds itself together. I'm going to toss it into some type of case to keep the battery connected. Just an FYI to anyone attempting this after March of 2023.

[CorkyStanton]

Just use two AirTags, one with noise, one without. The thief finds the noisy one, tosses it, then disables the message he was getting which disables the other one too because he will probably cancel the notice when the alert pops up one more time. Hence disabling the second device notice too. You can then continue tracking the thief.

[alumapro]

100% worth buying airtags! Had my welding helmet bag stolen from my welding truck, the bag was valued at $3k, long story short I found the thieves house, called the police, and got my bag back! They are worth every penny

[johnfarris]

Don't pop the speaker off. Just put a tiny piece of saran wrap to block speaker contacts, to disable speaker. Then it's reversible when you want to restore it.

[livetubing]

AirTags saved my trip to Ireland last year during the time when international airports were having major issues with not enough staff.
Some people were without luggage for weeks.
I had AirTags in all of our bags including my bicycle travel case.
The bike missed our connection fight and was left behind in London.
I knew that immediately because while boarding for Dublin I could tell that one case was not on the plane, and as soon as s I arrived in Dublin I filed for the lost bag.
Shortly after leaving the airport I saw on my phone that the bag had just made to Dublin, so I returned to the airport and informed the baggage claim rep that I was tracking my bag and I that it was in the airport
Sure enough they went to check and it was there… however they had no idea where my bag was.
The baggage claim representative told me that had I not had an AirTag in the case it could have been weeks before I’d gotten my bag.
AirTag may not be perfect but it works!

[nyanates]

Put one of these in my checked bag on an international flight. Didn't see the bag on the belt at all, even though Find my was telling me it was there. I sought help from Baggage Claim personnel and we walked around searching. Then noticed it literally tracks its proximity to you on the phone so you can walk rigjt to it. We found the bag and it was hidden behind another right next to it. A good laugh had by all - at my expense - but this thing realy was useful. 😅😅😅

[nighthogproductions]

Honestly the biggest problem i find with airtags is you cant family share them. we use them for the appletv remotes and car keys things that are shared. Its damn annoying not being able to see my wife's tags or her being able to see mine.

[loud_laughter]

This is good advice, and I like the way you explain that it’s not antitheft, it’s more anti-stalking, or pro-locating.

[octosoft]

I just did this with a new AirTag purchased march 3rd 2024. The speaker was locked down inside the middle of the electronics (instead of attached to the plastic in the video). I could still pry it up. Put everything together and the tag worked perfectly.. without the sound! Thanks again for the great video explaining how to open and put together. This AirTag is going on my expensive bike.

[popefacto]

I have a couple problems with this video. First is that "Help a Friend" allows you to find other people's AirTags with your iPhone. Second is that you should receive a notification if your AirTag is "Left Behind" (stolen and removed from your immediate vicinity) at which point you'd probably enable Lost Mode (which *should* disable the "stalker notification" to the thief).

[ilia]

I thought about doing this and then I realised police here in the UK don't actually do anything even if you tell them the exact coordinates of the thief's house and provide CCTV footage of the theft.

[EuropeanLord]

I can confirm it still works for new AirTags. People say they're glued now or don't work without the magnet. Nope. Works just like in your vid. Thanks, great job.

[EpicBenjo]

All you had to do was remove that white circle on top of the speaker which is magnetic. Didn’t have to peel off the speaker. That way you can put the magnet back if you wanted to bring the sound back

[ogre]

For anyone wondering this still works, however the speaker is glued to the base instead of the cover that’s pryed off, just pop a razor blade underneath and pry it off.

[GermanCarguy]

This is awesome! An airtag helped recover my 16k motorcycle some months back and the thief seemed to not have found the tag by pure luck. I will certainly add an additional ninja tag to the bike (as the sound of the OG tag did actually help localize the bike once we where on location)

Super simple hack. Appreciate the video!
For those that want to go even crazier: There is an open source project to flash the airtags (or any other tag for that matter) to piggyback on the airtag network to create actually 100% stealth airtags that also send no notification to the tracked person. Of course: This is to track YOUR stuff and not to stalk someone, so use this with some good judgement!

[MichelleAlexandria-EM]

My car was stolen a few months ago and because of Airtag, the police was able to track and recover my car in less than 3 hrs.

[SuiSlyder]

This is great! I keep an AirTag in my car in case of one of two things, either I forget where I park, or someone steals my car. The only issue is sometimes when I get into the car the chime is automatically going off, which can get very annoying. First thing I’m doing tomorrow is removing that damned chime!