Apple releases Android app to help find potentially malicious AirTags

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(Pocket-lint) - Apple has released an Android app called Tracker Detect. It volition fto Android users hunt for AirTags oregon different Find My-compatible trackers.

The Cupertino-based institution archetypal announced the app past June, with the committedness that it would let Android users to observe trackers perchance being utilized without their knowledge.  According to the app's listing connected Google Play Store, it tin scan for devices, and if it finds any, it volition fto you play an alarm dependable connected it truthful you tin find it. It. besides serves up accusation connected who the AirTag belongs to and however to disable it if necessary. 

The app won't continually scan successful the inheritance and pass you, however. You person to manually search. It besides doesn't fto you negociate AirTags attached to an Apple account. In a connection to CNET, Apple said the app is meant to rise "the barroom connected privacy" for users and the industry.

For iPhone users, Apple antecedently introduced information features specified arsenic an alert that volition fto an ‌iPhone‌ idiosyncratic cognize if an AirTag that does not beryllium to them is tracking them. There was nary specified diagnostic for Android users anterior to the merchandise of this caller Tracker Detect app.

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Writing by Maggie Tillman. Originally published connected 13 December 2021.

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