Apple and Google finally announced unwanted tracking alerts for more than just AirTags
AirTags have been in the wild since 2021, and Apple and Google have been saying that they plan to enable notifications for unwanted trackers that are, well, tracking you, regardless of the brand that the item tracker comes from. Finally, the companies have announced that they are rolling this capability out.
In a press release, Apple announced that it and Google are rolling out their Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers specification capabilities to the iPhone and Android phones. The company says that it is "implementing this capability in iOS 17.5, and Google is now launching this capability on Android 6.0+ devices." The updates are rolling out to devices starting today.
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