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In iOS 15.2 Apple has added a new feature to the Search app. Now we can do an active search for an AirTag or a device compatible with the Find someone else's network if we suspect that someone else is carrying someone else's. A simple system that allows us to make sure that the only AirTags and objects that go with us are our property.

How to know if someone is following you using an AirTag that is not yours

Our iPhones would automatically notify us if an AirTag or a device compatible with the Search network of another person moved with us. This is so to prevent us from being tracked. Before this notice occurs, however, we may do an active search, to make sure we don't take someone else's AirTag or device.

We will carry out this search from the Search app itself. The steps to follow are those:

1. We open the Search app on our iPhone.
2. We enter the Objects tab.
3. We touch on Objects that can locate me.
4. We touch Search .
5. We wait for the results.

Although the most common thing will be that we see "No unknown object has been found", if the situation were different the same iPhone It would guide us to the object in question and show us instructions on how to deactivate it or contact its owner.

Like many technologies, the Search network can be used for dubious purposes. As we have already said, these devices already have various security measures to prevent misuse. With iOS 15.2 Apple adds a more thoughtful resource for situations in which a person may have reasons to make sure that they do not take any other device.

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